The president of the Generalitat and Esquerra candidate, Pere Aragonès, wants to re-run the position but the polls are not favorable to him. “If it were for the polls, Feijóo would be president,” he repeats over and over again in this campaign so as not to have to reduce his role and that of his party to a mere key that decides who will govern Catalonia for the next four years: The PSC or Junts, Salvador Illa or Carles Puigdemont, the first and the second, according to all the polls.
In this regard, Aragonès hides his cards, partly to avoid having to recognize his pivotal role and maintain his candidacy for president and partly to attract the maximum number of undecided people possible, which according to surveys represent a very high percentage in these elections. .
The president in an interview on El Cafè d’Idees on 2 and Ràdio 4 has linked the possible electoral pacts to the contents. “The what is more important than the who,” Aragonès warned, adding that he does not know what Puigdemont and Illa want for Catalonia.
Regarding the socialist candidate, the Republican has warned that “he will not negotiate as I have negotiated and will have to choose between defending the country or the party,” implying that he will bet on the second, and on Puigdemont, of whom he has highlighted that months ago he was betting on the confrontation with the State and now the negotiation, he has said that he does not know what he will do “in four days.”
The Republican candidate proposes four ideas that have been the axes of his campaign and suggests that he will agree with whoever assumes them: Negotiate a referendum to decide the political future of Catalonia, unique financing, the improvement of the welfare state and the defense of Catalan.
Be that as it may, the president has not ruled out governing with either of the two parties that lead the polls: “Puigdemont said that he was never going to invest Sánchez. “Illa said that amnesty would never happen.” “They will decide where they are,” he summarized.
In any case, Aragonès has appealed to citizens not to have to choose between left and independence, as the Illa or Puigdemont dilemma could suggest since, in his words, “you can have both by voting for ERC.”
In line with all this, Aragonès has also regretted not having been able to debate with Puigdemont after offering to move to Northern Catalonia, from where the former president has campaigned, to do so. For the Republican, with this debate that has not taken place “it would become very evident that the only proposals that are now being campaigned are very similar to what ERC has been saying and doing for many years.”
In another vein, Aragonès has ruled out investigating whether off-duty police officers are protecting Puigdemont in his campaign in France and has indicated that the Government has no room to act with what off-duty agents do, unarmed and outside. of the Spanish State.
