The Government delegate in Madrid, Ester Capella, denies that it is incompatible for ERC to approve the budgets with the PSC and Junts at the same time. The Republican leader has argued that there have already been agreements with different parties at other times during the legislature and that, therefore, it would not be surprising if it happened again now. In the event that the talks between ERC and PSC these days come to fruition, they would also need the support of a third party. Junts agrees with the PSC in the request to promote the Hard Rock project -Illa put it yesterday as a condition-, unlike the common ones, who are contrary.
The Republicans lifted the veto of the PSC for the Catalan accounts days ago and now they are already talking openly about a possible favorable vote from those of Salvador Illa. In statements to La 2 and Ràdio 4, Capella recalled that the Government, even with the presence of Junts, agreed to several initiatives with different parties, both in this legislature and in the previous one. One of the most relevant agreements reached by ERC, Junts and the PSC, a few months ago, was the renewal of the positions of different public bodies such as the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals or the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries.
Despite the project differences, Junts and the PSC agree on an element that the two parties have placed as fundamental: that the Hard Rock project in Tarragona be unraveled and pushed forward. “We will not endorse the budgets of a Government that paralyzes projects,” Illa said yesterday on TV3, which made it a condition to negotiate. This point in common is not shared by En Comú Podem, who is also in talks with the executive for the accounts.
Ester Capella, in the La 2 interview, has also valued the dialogue table, which she hopes will last over time in order to meet the objectives and agreements “to which each party has committed.” The ERC leader has asked for the support of the rest of the pro-independence actors in the negotiation with the Government and, in the contrary case, she has challenged them to present their strategy. “Is there an alternative to dialogue?”, she has asked herself. Capella believes that without a negotiation “we will not reach a good port.”
One of the results of the dialogue table is the repeal of the crime of sedition, an initiative framed in a reform of the Penal Code that yesterday passed the process of the amendments to the entirety in the Congress of Deputies. Ester Capella has denied that this modification supposes a substitution for the crime of aggravated public disorder. In addition, in line with what was expressed yesterday in the Lower House by the Republican deputy Carolina Telechea, she explained that ERC will work in the period of partial amendments so that “it is clear that protest is not criminalized.”
The delegate of the Generalitat has also spoken about the relationship between her party and her former coalition partner. “As always in this life, everything can be redone,” said Capella, who has compared the ERC-Junts pairing to a marriage. Likewise, she has highlighted that the two formations have “common objectives”.
