After an hour and a half of meeting, the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, stated that his meeting with the organization secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, has been “productive” and that there will be much more in this legislature, in Madrid, in Barcelona and outside Spain, downplaying the fact that the meeting took place.
“It has been a working meeting, of which we will hold many. We have a lot of work to do and we want to do it well,” highlighted the post-convergent leader as he left the Congress of Deputies.
Likewise, the leader of JxCat has indicated that his party will not make statements while negotiations are underway and that it will only speak out “when there is an agreement or disagreement.” Regarding the next meetings, he has asserted that there will be “many more, here, in Barcelona and apart from the mechanism established at the international level.” The PSOE has also tried to downplay the relevance of these meetings and frames them in the most absolute normality, in fact there was already one the first week of January to address the validation of the first decrees of the central government.
Aside from today’s meeting, it is expected that Turull and Cerdán will also meet abroad this January, in a new meeting of the negotiation space with an international verifier, although the intention of all parties is that That meeting is kept secret. The first took place on December 2 in Geneva (Switzerland) with the Salvadoran diplomat Francisco Galindo as international mediator.
On the contrary, Turull has not clarified whether on the table, during his appointment, were the amendments to the Amnesty law presented the day before or the migration powers that the PSOE has agreed to delegate to Catalonia. Before the meeting, for his part, Cerdán had highlighted that it was a simple work meeting and therefore they did not intend to “agree or communicate anything.” In the same vein as his interlocutor, he had said that there will be many more meetings of this type.
This Tuesday afternoon the groups presented amendments to the Amnesty law that is being processed in the Lower House. JxCat and ERC registered theirs, twelve and four, respectively, separately, although the Republicans did agree on nine with the PSOE, Sumar, EH Bildu and BNG.
Both the Minister of the Presidency, Justice, Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, and the head of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, have assured that they will only support the amendments that the socialist group registered along with the other formations, and that they will not They plan to support those of the independence parties. The socialists consider that the application of the Amnesty law is not in danger.
