“As far as I know, we are talking about a coffee between a PP councilor and one from Junts. A coffee between two politicians. I wouldn’t call it a negotiation.” That is the official version structured by the Popular Party after the divergence of positions defended earlier in the day by the national leadership and the popular municipal group in the Barcelona City Council once the quote that popular leaders and members of Junts They celebrated in August.
Tellado has denied in his intervention that the national leader of the popular parties, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, was aware of that meeting because, as he said, it was about “coffees between councilors” – in relation to Daniel Sirera (PP) and Jusep Rius (Junts) does not require any permission from the president in the formation.
Until the recognition made by Tellado, the Popular Party’s explanations for the meeting of Junts and members of this party in Barcelona revealed by La Vanguardia have been contradictory. While Daniel Sirera, leader of the PP in the Barcelona City Council and Feijóo’s most trusted man in Catalonia, admitted that the meeting did take place at the request of the Catalan independentists, the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado denied ” “any type of contact of this type.”
