Nine senior ERC leaders, including Oriol Junqueras, Marta Rovira and Pere Aragonès, have called on Junts to “join efforts to defend Catalonia” after considering that “all the votes” of the Catalan independence movement, the 14 that Esquerra and the post-convergents obtained in 23-J, are “essential”.

They did so in an article published in the newspaper Ara signed – in this order – by Oriol Junqueras, president of Esquerra, Marta Rovira, general secretary of ERC, Pere Aragonès, president of the Generalitat, Marta Vilalta, spokesperson of the party, Josep Maria Jové, president of the Parliamentary Group, Juli Fernàndez, deputy general secretary of strategy, Gabriel Rufián, ERC spokesperson in Congress, Teresa Jordà, former councilor and deputy and Sara Bailac, deputy general secretary of political action.

In the text, the Republicans ask Junts to “take advantage of the lever of force together” after the results of the general elections and demand unity from the independence movement because “the more we are, the more capacity we will have to take advantage of things.” “If we all row in the same direction, we are stronger,” they conclude.

The idea of ??sovereign unity and a “common front” in the face of a negotiation with Sánchez has been gaining more and more strength after the last elections, although some approaches from Junts and ERC are still far from it.

Puigdemont’s party demands self-determination and amnesty to invest Sánchez, while ERC claims that “the negotiation with the state must continue.” In the article, the Republican leaders mention that they have to “seize” the opportunity “to build towards amnesty and self-determination”, although they stress that “defending Catalonia means continuing to advance in political negotiations”.

In this sense, in the letter Esquerra Republicana mentions its conditions again, which despite the fact that at some point they proposed to “agree on them with Junts”, they continue to be those that they defended before the elections. “The complete transfer of Rodalies to the Generalitat” to defend “the drama that thousands of people experience every day”, is the first proposal. However, Laura Borràs, president of Junts, warned the PSOE last week that raising the transfer of Rodalies in the negotiations would be “insulting the intelligence of the people.”

In addition, they also demand “to end the current fiscal deficit”, because according to the ERC leaders, “it means that the resources that the country generates cannot be used to improve its public services”. Finally, the Republican leaders demand that aspects such as “the use of the Catalan language in the European Parliament” be completed.

The first reaction to the article from the Junts environment has come from Artur Mas, former president of the Generalitat, who has assured that he is “100% in agreement” with the content, although he has qualified that until now this has not been the case . “If from now on it is, fantastic.”