While the PP tries to put out the internal fire due to the possibility that Alberto Núñez Feijóo considered, before his possible investiture, granting at some point a conditional pardon to Carles Puigdemont in exchange for the support of Junts, Esquerra has also explained, through its general secretary , Marta Rovira, that the Popular Party turned to them to get their votes. As soon as these statements were made public, the PP officially stated that “it has never entered into conversations or negotiations with ERC within the framework of the investiture. Never,” popular sources emphasize.
Marta Rovira gave specific details of this approach and has assured that it was the deputy Carlos Floriano who addressed the republican deputy Teresa Jordà to propose the negotiation after the general elections in August.
“He proposed that we talk and negotiate,” Marta Rovira explained from Geneva (Switzerland), where she has lived since 2018, in an interview in Ser Catalunya, in which she clarified that they were immediately told no. “We responded that we did not speak with the PP and that there was only the possibility of forming a democratic bloc, the progressive bloc,” said the republican leader, who is clear that “the PP is the opposite” of this bloc.
“It was impossible. What unites us with the PP? Nothing,” concluded Rovira, who emphasized that the other bloc, the PP, needed to incorporate Vox. “It made no sense to talk to them,” insisted the number two of ERC, who also believes that the PP cannot resolve the political conflict because, in her opinion, it “created it and aggravated it” with the statutory crisis. “What does the PP mean here,” Rovira snapped, for whom this formation “not only does not offer dialogue but has promoted criminal proceedings” against the independence movement. “The PP must be corrected, if amended, it is that force that is always late,” lamented Rovira, who has reproached them for having “permanent and systematic Catalanophobia.”
Rovira did not want to go into the details regarding the contacts between the PP and Junts, of which more details have been known this weekend and has limited himself to indicating that “what Junts does must be explained by Junts.” What he has done is point out that what Esquerra does is defend its “transparency and coherence.” Rovira has also highlighted the fact that Esquerra negotiated pardons that, in his opinion, were not conditional like those that Feijóo had supposedly studied – they would only be produced if the expatriate politicians appeared before the Spanish courts to be judged, and that, once convicted, they regretted what the Generalitat had done -, and has pointed out that the leader of the PP is once again late with this proposal.
Regarding the Amnesty law that is being processed in Congress, the Republican leader has considered that the text is fine as it is and that it is other groups, in clear reference to Junts, that should say where we are. In any case, she has made it clear that if there is a new agreement they will study it “with a magnifying glass” and she has indicated that the rule must benefit everyone, it must allow all open cases to be closed and it must be legal and constitutional.
At this point, he has defended that she would not be left out of criminal oblivion with the current text, which excludes terrorism crimes, because, as he stated, “in Catalonia there has been no terrorism and even less with deaths and victims.” For this reason, she has insisted that the Tsunami Democràtic case, in which she is being investigated along with Puigdemont for terrorism, must be closed with the application of the amnesty.
“Another thing,” he acknowledged, “is what this judge (García-Castellón) and others who may not apply or observe the law do.” “We will have to settle accounts with those judges who have not applied the laws as they should be applied for too long,” added Rovira, in the opinion of whom, “perhaps they are committing a crime of prevarication, perhaps they are not observing the laws as they have been approved.” and inspired”.
In any case, Rovira has admitted that once the amnesty is approved there will be “a long road” in its application but he has warned that if obstacles are encountered they have “many more options” that he did not want to reveal. “We are prepared to face it,” he insisted, but “what we have to do first is approve the law” which, in his opinion, “is ready” to grant amnesty to all those affected by the process. “If anyone thinks not, let them explain it,” he said.
The PP version is very different. According to PP sources, “the deputy Carlos Floriano commented to an ERC deputy, informally and colloquially, in the month of August, that they should let the list with the most votes govern. Without further ado,” they say, and add that, ” Of course, Carlos Floriano did not receive any assignment to propose anything.”
According to the same official sources, the PP “did not speak with Marta Rovira either, whom we took the opportunity to ask to return to Spain to be tried by the courts of our country” and they insist that “we have never established the slightest contact with ERC to seek their support for an investiture”.
When Alberto Núñez Feijóo was commissioned by the King to attempt his investiture, the popular president began a round of contacts with all the parties, except with Bildu, said the popular leader, but ERC refused to attend the meeting offered by the leader of the PP. , so that contact was not made.
