The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, endorsed as Esquerra’s candidate for re-election in the party’s national council last Saturday, has insisted on the need to approve the budgets for 2024 and exhaust the legislature until February 2025, which is ” when the regional elections come.
“My intention, and at this moment I have no element to change the decision, is for the elections to be held when they are due, in February 2025,” the president explained in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, in which he recalled that there is no He had completed a term in Catalonia “for almost 15 years” and that “every year we have approved budgets” while explaining that the Government is “working very intensely with the groups” to close a political agreement on the accounts.
Aragonès has justified the endorsement of himself as an Esquerra candidate this weekend with one year left before the elections in the political context. “The one who will decide the Esquerra candidate is Esquerra and not the repression of the State,” said the Republican leader in reference to the scope and application by the judges of the amnesty law that is being processed in Congress.
Furthermore, the Catalan president has pointed out that the debate over whether the candidate should be him or the president of the party, Oriol Junqueras, is “induced externally, not internally.” And as he already did on Saturday, he has reiterated that Junqueras is a “great asset” who, thanks to the amnesty, will be “ready for circumstances that may arise in the future.”
Likewise, Aragonès has defended his roadmap to address the holding of a self-determination referendum and in the face of resistance from the Government, he has recalled that before July 23 everyone said that amnesty was impossible and now there will be an amnesty. In this sense, the president has assured that he maintains his commitment to “force” the State to negotiate an agreed referendum and “set the conditions” for its celebration.
In this sense, he has issued a warning to the president of the Government: “He knows that either he agrees with the independence movement or it is very difficult for him to move forward.” “And from responsibility, understanding that there is a lot at stake, but also with maximum ambition, we must take advantage of this historic opportunity and set the conditions for a referendum,” the president insisted.
