The ERC campaign for these Spanish elections enters the final stretch emphasizing the “useful vote” represented by the list led by its candidate Gabriel Rufián, to “defend Catalonia” in Madrid against the “lying leftists”, with their “disappointments and pious lies” which, according to the republican parliamentarian, represent the PSOE and Sumar. But the conditions that ERC will set 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: putting an end to the fiscal deficit and the transfer of Rodalies.
If it is about “prices and proposals”, the head of the Government pointed out how “it is essential to put an end to the fiscal deficit and transfer Rodalies, a service that arrives late and poorly and generates a lot of uncertainty”, he criticized. Aragonès highlighted these demands before mentioning the need to “open a stage of hope to stop the repression and move towards self-determination”.
Aragonès communicated these demands in a meeting together with Rufián in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, where he appealed to his party’s record of services in Madrid which allows them to boast that they have never favored a right-wing government. For this reason, “if the numbers come out, there will not be a right-wing government, but a left-wing government”, he promised, and “if it depends on the ERC, the PP will stop and we will do what we have always done, with proposals in defense of Catalonia”, the president reaffirmed.
In this way, the Republicans are once again burying Junts’ proposal to jointly demand a referendum in exchange for supporting a possible investiture in Congress. Aragonès, a supporter of continuing the negotiation with the central government to achieve self-determination, assured that the conditions set by his party are “acceptable and will be on the roof of the PSOE” if it wants to regain the executive.
In order for ERC to be decisive in this eventual investiture, it needs to have the support of the largest number of left-wing voters possible next Sunday. That’s why Rufián questioned his rivals, “Spanish progressivism”, he said, with reference to the PSOE and Sumar.
Rufián sent a question to the two left-wing leaders: “What project do you have for Catalonia? Faced with doubt (…) I ask people not to vote for disappointments or pious lies”, he said. According to the candidate, who wants a progressive government in the State, “but think about 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 about Catalonia”, he guaranteed.
