One of the maxims that they have in mind in independence is that, in their opinion, the PSOE promises a lot, but finds it hard to deliver. ERC conditions the investiture of Pedro Sánchez on amnesty, progress in self-determination and social welfare (Regional areas and putting an end to the fiscal deficit). But it is also demanding the PSOE to comply with everything pending execution.
The framework of the negotiation for the investiture is ideal. The full transfer of the management of the minimum living income (IMV), grants or aspects of the audiovisual center Catalunya Media City are issues, among others, that Esquerra agreed with the PSOE Government in the framework of approval of ‘some of the general budgets and even of the Generalitat-State bilateral commission. Some of these topics are completed, but their conclusion is eternal.
Yesterday, at the control session for the president, the leader of the Republicans in Parliament, Josep Maria Jové, demanded from the PSOE general secretary to declassify documentation related to spying with Pegasus on about sixty people related to independence. if he wants to be invested”.
Pegasus is another outstanding issue. Jové has a basis for the demand. Pere Aragonès filed a complaint in July 2022 that was admitted to proceedings by the judge in October against the former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) Paz Esteban. This legal step requires for Jové and the president to be accompanied by political decisions “who wants to be invested… if he wants to be invested again”, and Jové recalled, as Aragonès also did, that Moncloa he promised to declassify documents about this spying if there was a court request. It arrived: the head of the court of inquiry number 29 of Barcelona, ??the same one that is now investigating Esteban, claimed in parallel on October 16 that documents be declassified.
“I do not expect anything else from the Council of Ministers to cooperate with the justice system and with this judicial procedure. Nothing else would be understood”, added Aragonès during his speech in the Catalan Chamber, while lamenting the “unjustifiable slowness” for the admission of his complaint.
However, apart from the national folders – amnesty and self-determination – Neighborhoods and putting an end to the fiscal deficit are priorities for ERC. Yesterday Aragonès warned Onda Cero that the negotiation in these areas “is not going well”.
