The restart of the dialogue between the central government and the Generalitat de Catalunya promoted by the leaders of the Esquerra Republicana and the PSOE does not convince Junts per Catalunya, a partner of the Republicans in the Government. Its spokesman and vice-president, Josep Rius, warned this Monday at a press conference that his formation will not act as a “lifesaver” for that forum and has reiterated that without a commission of investigation in the Congress of Deputies on espionage on the pro-independence leaders there is no “confidence framework” necessary to resume negotiations.
“The framework of trust will not exist if the creation of an investigation commission in Congress on Catalangate is not allowed, it is a prior and essential condition for that framework of trust”, Rius pointed out.
The deputy general secretary of the ERC and spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, on the other hand, has celebrated the agreement that the minister Félix Bolaños and the councilor Laura Vilagrà closed last Friday, in which a roadmap for the talks was established. “It is a first step in the line of the new conditions and guarantees that were required and that have to allow equal conditions and build agreements”, Vilalta pointed out in this regard.
But given the optimism of its partners, in Junts they understand that the restart of the dialogue comes due to the needs of Pedro Sánchez, so that he can approve the general budgets of the State in the autumn after the electoral defeat in Andalusia. “Junts will not act as a lifesaver for a dialogue table that has failed. Neither will we endorse a new round of photographs to endorse the new general budgets of the State,” stressed Rius, who has demanded that the dialogue be disassociated from the “conjuncture”. “This week in the debate on the State of the Nation it will once again be clear that the Government does not have a majority,” Rius reflected, adding that the Prime Minister “gesticulates to achieve parliamentary majorities.”
The formation insists that there must be guarantees for the fulfillment of the agreements, and that amnesty and a legal and agreed referendum on self-determination must be recognized.
Regarding the meeting between President Pere Aragonès and Sánchez this Friday, Rius stressed that the Catalan chief executive “can meet with whoever he wants, the presidency of the Generalitat is an institution”. However, he has indicated that they may not agree on the content. “The fact that he informs us does not mean that we share the content of what may be agreed upon. If we talk about negotiation, we must take into account the two positions of the parties that make up the Govern coalition,” said the Junts spokesman.
