The ERC campaign for these Catalan elections is entering its final stretch, emphasizing the “useful vote” represented by the list led by its candidate Gabriel Rufián to “defend Catalonia” in Madrid against the “false left”, with its “deceptions and white lies” which, according to the Republican parliamentarian, represent PSOE and Sumar. But the conditions that ERC will put for an eventual investiture of Pedro Sánchez are also clarified. It was the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, who highlighted two key elements yesterday: ending the fiscal deficit and the transfer of Rodalies.
If it is about “prices and proposals”, the head of the Government pointed out as “essential” “to end the fiscal deficit and transfer Rodalies, a service that arrives late and badly, and generates a lot of uncertainty”, he criticized. Claims that he highlighted before mentioning the need to “open a stage of hope to stop the repression and move towards self-determination.”
Aragonès launched these demands at a rally with Rufián in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, where he appealed to his party’s service record in Madrid that allows them to boast that they have never favored a right-wing government. For this reason, “if the numbers come out, there will be no right-wing government, but a left-wing government”, he promised, and “if it depends on the ERC, the PP will be stopped and we will do what we have always done, with proposals in defense of Catalonia”, reaffirmed the president.
In this way, the Republicans bury the Junts per Catalunya proposal to jointly demand a referendum in exchange for supporting a possible investiture in Congress. Aragonès, in favor of continuing the negotiation with the central government to achieve self-determination, assured that the conditions set by his party are “assumable and will be on the roof of the PSOE” if he wants to take over the executive again.
In order for ERC to be decisive in this eventual investiture, it needs to have the support of the greatest number of left-wing voters possible next Sunday. That is why Rufián questioned his rivals, “Spanish progressivism”, he said, referring to PSOE and Sumar.
Rufián launched a question to the two left-wing leaders: “What project do you have for Catalonia?” “When in doubt (…) I ask people not to vote for deceptions or white lies,” he claimed. According to the candidate, whoever wants a progressive government in the State, “but that thinks of Catalonia”, he conditioned, “this party cannot be the party of Felipe González and (Emiliano García) Page”, but ERC, because “we will force them to think and legislate thinking of Catalonia”, he guaranteed.
