“Strategic unity” and “common front” in Madrid is the claim of the independence movement after the general elections, from which sovereignty came out with the key to governability despite losing votes at the polls. Regarding this, the tone between the pro-independence parties decreased in intensity yesterday in the control session with the Government, and both Esquerra and Junts tested the ground to work on a common front with an eye on Madrid.
“Let’s take advantage of the opportunity as if it were the last”, claimed the president Pere Aragonès, who demanded to set aside the mutual reproaches. “Let’s work together from the highest demand,” he added in response to the president of the post-convergent group, Albert Batet.
It is not the first time that there has been talk of a common pro-independence front. After the municipal elections on May 28, the idea of ??a joint sovereign bloc was already raised from different angles, but it did not come to fruition.
Now, after a significant loss of votes in the past general elections, Aragonès shows “every willingness” to reach an agreement “as soon as possible” with JxCat and to be able to roll up his sleeves to resolve “the political conflict.”
From Junts, which has shown in recent days its intention to jointly demand an amnesty law with ERC and the possibility of holding a binding consultation, Batet claimed “the position of strength and opportunity” that has been opened to them after the results from last Sunday.
The leaders of ERC, JxCat and the CUP agreed yesterday in the plenary session of Parliament to recognize the poor result of their political spectrum at the polls.
In any case, this circumstance offers different readings depending on who makes it. For this reason, Aragonès pointed out that despite having “diverse readings” they cannot “be contradictory”. Batet, in turn, stressed that “the independence movement has lost votes” after “four years” in which ERC “has followed a strategy” on its own in Madrid and pointed to the polarization of the campaign in a Spanish key. The Republicans, on the other hand, speak of a dual vote.
Beyond what refers to the entente between the former partners of the Government, Aragonès asked Pedro Sánchez for “courage” and invited him to “make proposals” for Catalonia. He went in a reply to Jéssica Albiach, president of the En Comú Podem group. The president announced that “weeks of work, negotiations and political courage are coming” which, according to Aragonès, “is up to Sánchez” to try to form a government. Along the same lines, Batet pointed out that we must wait to see if the PSOE “is willing or not to open a political negotiation.” “It depends on Pedro Sánchez,” he added.
In another order of things, the PP used the control session to address issues related to the governance of the State. Alejandro Fernández, in his speech, dedicated more time to Salvador Illa, first secretary of the PSC, than to the president. Thus, Fernández demanded that the socialist take advantage of “the opportunity to end the process” and “send the opposition” to the independence movement. In addition, he asked the leader of the PSC to support Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the Cortes Generales. “I am very much afraid that he will prefer to continue being a hostage to Pedro Sánchez,” Fernández concluded, however, whom Illa ignored.
Just before the control session, the full Parliament approved the regional appointment of Núria Marín (PSC) and Teresa Pallarès (Joint) as senators, replacing Lorena González and Assumpció Castellví, respectively.