While the common pro-independence front proposed by Pere Aragonès in various areas continues without crystallizing, municipal pacts are being forged. Some, against the spirit of the president’s initiative, and in many of them it is Junts and the PSC that shake hands, leaving ERC in the lurch. The Republicans are also playing and right now, for example, they could forget the pact of seven years governing with the post-convergents to associate with the Socialists in Manresa. In Reus, ERC and Junts are negotiating to be the second in command of… PSC.
Junts, however, is the one who at the moment, among the independentistas, is the one who most obviously stands out for the common front at the municipal level. The Provincial Council of Tarragona is negotiating with the PSC and has already sealed agreements with the PSC, for example, in towns such as Roses, Sitges, Cunit, Calella, Llagostera, Lloret de Mar, Riba-roja d’Ebre, Vilallonga del Camp, Sitges or Calonge i Sant Antoni –in these last two cases adding to the PP. On some occasions the alliance option between ERC and JxCat was possible. The CUP is also making an agreement with the PSC to oust ERC from the Sarrià de Ter City Council.
In some cases, it is even both pro-independence parties that pre-agree with the PSC to take over town halls. For example, in Torredembarra or Cambrils, where Republicans and Socialists would share out the mayoralties over the next four years. Therefore, in the absence of an independence agreement, the one who benefits is the PSC. And the criticisms between ERC and Junts deputies are public on the networks.
In this common front, the great plaza is yet to be defined. Xavier Trias has advanced conversations with Ernest Maragall and if an agreement were reached, it would be a good patch for these cracks. We must bear in mind the words of Aragonés in Marseille the day before yesterday. He avoided answering whether the counterpart to providing a certain stability to Trias would be stability on the part of Junts in the Government from Parliament, “We need the independence movement to be strong everywhere, at the municipal level, with the maximum number of agreements between independence candidacies , and that the Government has parliamentary stabilityâ€, he limited himself to saying.
But ERC and Junts are in talks. At the moment, the only fruit is from the presidency of Parliament. Those of Junqueras will vote today in favor of the post-convergent Anna Erra to replace Laura Borràs –although weeks ago ERC declared its intention not to prevent a new Junts presidency.
A fourth point remains: agreeing on programmatic points between the pro-independence candidacies for the general elections on July 23. We will have to see if there is still a game.
