“The question is to do what, and I still don’t know what Carles Puigdemont wants to do besides be president.” The complaint about the alleged changes of opinion of the Junts leader has been one of the keynotes of Pere Aragonès’ campaign. Also his lack of definition. This morning he highlighted it again, considering today the possibility that Esquerra and Junts will ally again to form a government. The ERC candidate has avoided placing the post-convergents as a priority. He still expects JxCat to leave the Government in October 2022, but also an episode of disagreement between the two heads of the list.
Thus, in an interview on TV3, the Republican explained that after the meeting in August 2023 in the south of France of five presidents of the Generalita (Jordi Pujol, José Montilla, Carles Puigdemont, Quim Torra and Pere Aragonès) he offered the boss of Junts ranks to unite to achieve amnesty “and a few other things.” “He told me no, and in fact he literally told me: ‘I don’t know which side of the table you are on, whether on the side of the Spanish Government or the independence of Catalonia,’” Aragonès said about the conversation held with Puigdemont.
“I see that now it has been rectified,” said Aragonès ironically, who has disgraced Junts for copying, in his opinion, Esquerra with regard to the negotiation for the amnesty, the referendum and its own financing, saying “that they will do it better.” without actually doing it.”
In any case, Aragonès recalled that in recent years ERC has always supported Junts and the formations of which it is heir (such as Convergència), and has shown itself willing to reach agreements as long as there is “good content”, therefore that ERC, the president has assured, will be willing to negotiate with the post-convergents.
But the ERC candidate has also left in the air the repetition of a tripartite with the PSC and the commons. He doesn’t close any evidence. The Republican insists that proposals must be compared and that his are to lay the foundations for a self-determination referendum, unique financing for Catalonia and reinforce welfare and the Catalan language. All in all, it seemed that Aragonès was further away from the option of dealing with Salvador Illa than with Carles Puigdemont, since he has considered that today’s PSC does not currently contemplate any of the ERC proposals. “We see it even in the lapses: said Lérida and Bajo Llobregat,” Aragonès de Illa recalled.
