The head of the ERC list for Barcelona in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has asked the Catalan citizens not to abstain in the general elections on July 23 and has demanded the vote for any pro-independence party while calling on these formations to agree on a higher price for a recent inauguration of Pedro Sánchez after the elections.
In an interview on the Cafè d’Idees program, Rufián, faced with the proposal of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) known yesterday to vote void with the 1-O ballot or abstain on 23-J, regretted that Catalonia is the only site where abstention is requested and has asked everyone to go vote. “I ask everyone to go vote and if they do not vote for ERC that they do so for any pro-independence party,” said the Republican spokesman in Congress.
Rufián, who has been critical of Junts, whom he accused without mentioning them of leaving ERC alone in Congress and of having looked at the legislature “from the rostrum” when not “throwing dishes at them”, has asked them to “go down to the pitch” . In this sense, he has raised the post-convergents and the CUP, whose deputies Albert Botrán and Mireia Vehñi, he has praised, reach an agreement and raise the price of a possible investiture for Sánchez. “I ask that we agree to set a higher and agreed price” to make Pedro Sánchez president, Rufián has required to add that “we must put him in a dilemma: Catalonia or Vox.”
The Republican has avoided giving more details about the price for supporting Sánchez but has indicated that there is a consensus among Catalans that Catalonia should vote on its political status and has made it clear, as on other occasions, that the PSOE “you have to force to do things, if you let him choose he always chooses the worst”.
On the other hand, Rufián has regretted what happened at the investiture of the mayor of Barcelona, ??in which the PP and the commons allied to elect the socialist Jaume Collboni to the detriment of Xavier Trias, who had closed an agreement with ERC, and sees it as a “spoiler” of what could happen after 23-J in Congress alluding to a hypothetical pact between the PSOE and the PP. In any case, the candidate has been convinced that the “anitinatural” pact was forged a long time ago “in an office in Madrid” and has been surprised that the former mayor Ada Colau has facilitated a government that “burdens her inheritance “.
In addition, the Republican leader has declared his concern about “the breaking of bridges between the left, between the commons and the ERC”, something that he sees as “linked to what is happening in Madrid and the veto of Irene Montero”, with a Yolanda Díaz who, In his opinion, he has “sold” the Minister of Equality after meetings in “reserved restaurants”.
