The mantra of the Esquerra Republicana during “raise the price” for the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez in this electoral campaign materialized yesterday Wednesday: fiscal deficit, complete transfer of Rodalies and maintaining the dialogue table, but Junts, who asks not to invest any president who does not transfer to Catalonia the powers to organize a referendum, sees in this “a past screen”, as explained by the post-convergent candidate for the general elections of the July 23, Míriam Nogueras, this Thursday at a press conference organized by the Efe news agency.
Nogueras has predicted in that forum that the transfer of Rodalies funds will not come and that there will be no agreement to transfer the infrastructures. In addition, as she already pointed out yesterday, she has indicated that she will not sit down to negotiate “with the list of grievances in hand”, considering this strategy as part of the past. “With all due respect to President Aragonès, but I think that if one thing is clear it is that what has been done so far has not worked. Neither in this legislature, in which the balance is very bad, nor in the last 40 years. When we have the key, things will be very different in Madrid, “said the Junts candidate, who repeats that slogan day in and day out.
In Nogueras’s opinion, “reducing” Rodalies “who will govern” Spain and what the course of the State will be is not “doing high politics” for which he has opted to “go further” having “negotiating force”, since, “if not, they fool you”. The negotiating force, for Junts, lies in the confrontational capacity.
According to the post-convergent leader, who has ruled out investing the right and does not clarify what they will negotiate with the PSOE if the investiture of Sánchez depends on them, the Socialists “will have to explain very well what this legislature intends to do” if they want the votes of JxCat, since in recent years “they have not paid Catalonia” and “they have broken all the promises they have made”.
Regarding Meritxell Batet’s proposal to address the reform of the regional financing model in the next legislature, formulated on Tuesday night in the TV3 debate, Nogueras said that in the PSOE “they are zero credible”. “It is a past screen, we are well above this debate. We find ourselves in a situation in which the country cannot manage the resources. If it continues to depend on what is decided in Madrid, we are annoyed,” he added.
Jordi Turull, general secretary of JxCat, was the first Junts leader to reply to the ERC conditions for Sánchez’s investiture. “I have not gone to jail for three and a half years to make a common front to transfer Rodalies and improve financing a bit,” he pointed out in an act of his formation in Banyoles, at the final meeting in the province of Girona.
Following these words from the Junts leader, the Republican candidate, Gabriel Rufián, has stated on TV3 that without the negotiation there would have been no pardons and the leaders of the process would continue in jail.
On the other hand, Nogueras pointed out yesterday in a press conference organized by the Catalan News Agency that “the minimums are self-determination and amnesty” when negotiating a possible government, but he also said that he did not want to put “requirements” beforehand.
In any case, the former president Artur Mas, who does not have a license for the Turull formation but in these elections lends his support, advocated yesterday at an informative lunch with Nogueras for obtaining the maximum possible resources for Catalonia in the negotiation with the government given the difficulty of achieving independence and solving the problem of the fiscal deficit. “We have come to think that it is as difficult to fix the fiscal deficit as it is to achieve independence,” said the former president of the Generalitat, who considers that the State “does not have any incentive” to resolve the issue.
