A few hours after the start of the electoral campaign on July 23, Pere Aragonès will gather his Government in an extraordinary way to prepare, according to spokesperson Patrícia Plaja, before “the threat” of a possible government formed by the PP and Vox. He will do it on Friday, July 7, at the Robert Palace, in Barcelona. The appointment must also serve to evaluate the “four transformations” -green, feminist, social and democratic- with which the president wanted to characterize his government action.
It is not the first time that Aragonès cites his Government in a different venue than the Palau de la Generalitat. In September 2021 they met in Vall d’en Bas, with the negotiation with Moncloa in the spotlight, and in March of the following year the meeting was at the Pedralbes palace in Barcelona. On that occasion the meeting focused on the effects for Catalonia of the War in Ukraine. In any case, both were with Junts still being part of the Government. The one on Friday is the first that occurs with ERC taking over all the ministries.
Plaja has affirmed that the Government had marked this date on the calendar for a long time and has not considered that the start of the general election campaign could be an impediment or that it could be seen as an electoral act. He has insisted that it is a “review and analysis of the work done, of how the transformations are progressing.” “There are new ministers and we must prepare for the threat of the extreme right,” insisted the spokeswoman.
Plaja has warned that a hypothetical PP-Vox government will have as its main objective to attack Catalonia” and its “great country consensus”.
The consultation in which the bases of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) have amended the association’s leadership by rejecting the encouragement of abstention or invalid voting, has given rise to the Government to call to go to the polls. Plaja has shown his respect for the decision made by the entity, but has demanded that they go to the polls before the possible arrival of a government of the PP and Vox, which will go “against Catalonia and its” rights and freedoms “. So the spokeswoman has opined that it is “important that all Catalans who have the right to vote exercise it”.