The former deputy of Catalunya en Comú in Congress and Sumar negotiator with ERC and Junts, Jaume Asens, has agreed to run in the commons primaries to be the candidate of the Catalan party in the next European elections. If ratified by his party, Asens will join Sumar’s list for these elections, predictably in one of the starting positions, although the candidacy is still pending negotiations with the rest of the parties that support the platform led by Yolanda. Diaz
Asens himself announced this Thursday in a TV3 interview that he will be electorally involved in the elections to be held on June 9 after accepting the proposal made to him by the three coordinators of Catalunya en Comú, Ada Colau, Candela López and Jéssica Albiach. a few weeks ago. The leader has taken this time to reflect and has finally decided to take “a step forward.”
“The paths of politics are inscrutable. The ironies of fate placed me in a central position in the issue of amnesty negotiation,” said Asens, who assured that it is in this context that he has agreed to accept the assignment. .
Asens’ announcement comes at a time when the commons are at the epicenter of the Catalan political situation as a result of the negotiations for this year’s budgets. After the agreement between the Government and the PSC, the Catalan Executive pursues an agreement with the Albiach group to ensure the approval of the accounts, but the project for the Hard Rock recreational and tourist center, planned in Tarragona, makes an agreement impossible. the moment.
Asens’ decision also comes at a crucial moment for the Spanish legislature, pending the approval of the Amnesty law in Congress. The future candidate of the commons has been optimistic about this. Although he assures that the parties have “conspired in a pact of silence on the content of the negotiation,” he has expressed his full confidence in an agreement. “The positions are getting closer, everyone has made their starting position more flexible and the agreement is imminent,” he noted.
The imminence of this agreement would overcome the political obstacles that separated PSOE and Junts over the content of the rule and the circumstances that have been added in recent days, including the hospitalization of the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, as a result of a heart failure, and the impact of the Koldo case on the PSOE, in particular on Turull’s direct interlocutor in the negotiations, the secretary of the socialist organization Santos Cerdán.
With the election of Asens as the candidate of the commons for the list of Add to the European ones, the Catalan formation does not clear up the doubts that hang over the composition of this candidacy, which is emerging as a new battlefield between the parties that make up the project of the second vice president. In addition to the common ones, formations such as Izquierda Unida or Compromís also ask for starting positions in this candidacy, in a context of reactionary advance in which there may be a setback on the left.
The atmosphere between these formations and Díaz’s entourage has also become tense as a result of the results of the general and Galician elections. Also due to the fact that Sumar would be considering the implementation of its brand in autonomous communities such as Valencia or Madrid, where the coalition parties (Compromís and Más Madrid) have already expressed their protest.
In the configuration of this list, the election of the head of the list is also pending, which is assumed to be Sumar’s share in the candidacy. Izquierda Unida, los Comromís and Compromís would compete for second and third place, but other groups such as Más Madrid also claim to participate in the negotiation.
