Salvador Illa ruled out agreeing with Junts three days ago. Carles Puigdemont admitted yesterday that he is only considering governing with the ERC and ruled out the PSC. These cross vetoes make Pere Aragonès see himself in a key position for any pact on either side. That, if the words are not carried away by the wind. The ERC candidate does not believe these vetoes and continues to raise the specter of an alliance between socialists and post-convergents. The leader of the PSC himself stepped in, who yesterday hinted that Junts sought his support after being disappointed with the Government in October 2022 to force elections.
“Those who through the back door wanted to agree on a motion of no confidence cannot talk about unity”, emphasized Aragonès at the campaign event, yesterday in Tortosa. For the republican, with the revelation of Illa it is confirmed that “whenever they can they join”. “Therefore, they must not be able” to do so, he assured yesterday.
The president states something else: that the calls for unity that Puigdemont has been calling for for three weeks “are made of cardboard and stone”. “Unity is to always stand by the institutions of Catalonia, not abandon the Government in the middle of a pandemic”, added Aragonès, at the same time as he remarked that in these elections “it is necessary to make impossible what Junts proposed to the PSC, which put end of the Republican presidency on May 12”.
The event in Tortosa also served for Aragonès to firmly commit to establishing the foundations for a referendum and obtaining unique funding over the next four years.
Oriol Junqueras, also present in Tortosa, wanted to strike again. He did so by comparing himself to Puigdemont and his presumed personal interest in this electoral race: “I am not asking for anything for myself, I have no possibility of office because they will not let me, I want everything for your children and grandchildren” .
But all this does not prevent ERC from continuing to hold in its hands the necessary letters that will allow it, after the Catalan elections, to ally with whoever meets its expectations. The Republicans have never closed the door to coalitions with the PSC and Junts. Not with the CUP or the commons.
However, there isn’t a day when he doesn’t lash out at the top two. Raquel Sans, number one candidate for the Republicans in the demarcation of Tarragona, repeated the reproaches at the campaign event in Tortosa. In the morning Ester Capella recalled that “the disaster” in Rodalies “is being managed by the socialists”.
The president of the Port, Lluís Salvadó, a native of La Ràpita, also spoke at the event. He thanked the Government for always opposing the transfer of the Ebro to supply water to the metropolitan area of ??Barcelona. And he made a revelation: he would have left the party if the Catalan Executive had not worked to preserve the Delta.
