ERC does not incorporate it into its program, nor does the PSOE, and Alberto Núñez Feijóo amended himself to reject it definitively, but Pere Aragonès has returned to place the dialogue table in the fore today. In a campaign event of Esquerra in Manresa, the president of the Generalitat has warned of the possibility that the Socialists facilitate a hypothetical investiture of the leader of the PP to prevent the popular ally in Moncloa with Vox. Those of Pedro Sánchez would study it, according to Aragonès, after “the call of the financial, economic, media and political powers.” The only way to avoid it is for “ERC to obtain a magnificent result to force the State to sit down at a negotiating table.”
Two days after the municipal elections, in an institutional speech, Aragonès had given a new edition of that space for dialogue as almost impossible before the advent of a PP-Vox government that he took for granted.
The idea that the PSOE can facilitate a lone government for Feijóo is supported by the Republicans after Felipe González bet on it in case the PP was the most voted list. In any case, in Manresa the head of the Government has requested the vote for ERC precisely to avoid this scenario. “There will be those who make a call to concentrate the vote, to the useful vote, but it is useless because it can be easily deactivated on July 24 when there are calls from the usual to the PSOE to do what it always does,” Aragonès said. Here he has recalled that in 2016 the PSOE abstained to facilitate the investiture of Mariano Rajoy. “And if the circumstances arise, have no doubt that they will do it again”, he added, so that they “do a service to Spain”.
The number two of the ERC candidacy for Congress, Teresa Jordà, has followed the line of the president and has stressed that “the PP and the PSOE” often embrace each other. Maria Dantas, in position number six, has gone a little further and has recalled the PSOE “she regularly votes with the PP and Vox on matters of State.” “Enough of putting the unity of Spain ahead of the rights of citizens,” she stressed. Dantas, moreover, has affirmed that the socialists
Jordà has extended the criticism to Sumar and the commons, of whom he has said that they are a branch party as it would be, in his opinion, the PSC. For the former minister of Acció Climàtica, whenever it comes to defending the interests of Catalonia, such as investment or infrastructure, “they are on the other side of the table”.
“We are at a historic crossroads. (…). We are risking a lot, so much so that we are risking everything”, Jordà stated in the face of the threat of “neo-Francoism” that Vox would represent. A situation that would worsen, in his opinion, with the PSC and the commons, which “compete as branch parties” to see who “sells” before Catalonia.
Joan Queralt, ERC candidate for the Senate, was also present at the event. He has pointed out that “the repression” continues to be “brutal, a Malaysian drop that punishes the innocent and reminds us that we are a nuisance. We are the stone in the shoe”. For the professor of Criminal Law, the right “has taken off its mask” and in his opinion “the Spanish program is to destroy the great structure of the State in Catalonia, which is the Catalan language.”
