The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, criticized this Tuesday that the new mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni (PSC), was invested with “an pact against nature”, alluding to the simultaneous support of the commons and the PP, and He has shown that he is convinced that “if the numbers give” after some Catalan elections the same situation will be repeated in Parliament. “If they have not done it now, it is because they have not been able to, and that is why we must understand each other”, remarked the president, who has urged all the independence movement to agree “without impositions, reproaches and respecting plurality”.
In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the public broadcaster, the president considered it “absolutely essential” to move “from a dynamic of competition to a dynamic of cooperation” between pro-independence supporters, which, in his opinion, happens For example, because if Pedro Sánchez is in a position to revalidate his investiture after the general elections, the independence movement negotiates together. In this sense, he has joined the proposal of the Esquerra spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, who yesterday opted to “agree” between the independence movement and “raise” the price for a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. For Aragonès, it would not only be a matter of preventing a PP-Vox government by investing Sánchez as a “lesser evil”, but that “Catalonia must set a price”, the one that the independentistas agree “jointly”.
The pro-independence parties, he insisted, must “set a shared minimum among all”, both “in terms of rights and freedoms, the right to decide and against repression”, and in terms of “resources, powers and language”. “It is not a matter of seeing who runs the fastest to support Pedro Sánchez or who moves away the fastest,” stressed Aragonès, who stressed that ERC has taken “steps” in search of this understanding by facilitating the election of Anna Erra as new president of Parliament and being willing to govern with Xavier Trias in Barcelona.
Aragonès has warned that after 23-J there may be a “hostile government” in Madrid, so the independence movement must “recover a shared project”, first to face an “offensive” and try “not to go back” and, later, to be able to “advance”.
Regarding the pact in Barcelona, ??Aragonès has reiterated that on this alliance “the shadow of an agreement at State level is projected to prevent the independence movement from governing Barcelona”, of which he believes that the independence movement must take note to add and has indicated that “parties that “had been fighting during the campaign and have nothing in common” “joined to stop” the independence movement.
According to him, all these contradictions will become evident during the 23J electoral campaign: “The same people who have made this pact will tell us that it is necessary to stand between them.” In any case, Aragonès finds it difficult that, based on that sum of votes, a “positive government” can be projected from the consistory, although he has assured that in the Generalitat there is a willingness to cooperate with the Barcelona City Council.
