“We are explicit. “We would like others to be as good as we are.” In this way, Carles Puigdemont yesterday demanded that Esquerra guarantee that they will not agree with Salvador Illa in a press conference organized by ACN. The post-convergent formation has been posing 12-M as a face to face between them and the PSC for days and warns that there may be “an alliance of the Catalan and Spanish left.” A tripartite. “And we already know how they end,” added the Junts candidate, who reiterated that his party will not contribute to Illa being president in the next legislature.
“We know that it is a matter of two, Illa as civil governor of the Catalan province or us leading the Catalan reactivation. There is no other option,” Puigdemont later stated at a rally, defining the socialists’ plan as “a low-intensity 155” for “pretending to govern Catalonia from the Moncloa” and referring to Illa as the “man in black.” .
The truth is that all forecasts foresee a complex post-electoral scenario in Catalonia, with fragmentation of the vote and the possibility of blockage. However, Puigdemont, who if there is a repeat election he will be the candidate again, hopes to be inaugurated in the second vote, with more votes in favor than against, although the independence movement does not have an absolute majority. The former president maintains that he is the candidate with the best chance of being inaugurated in the second vote taking into account the political context, and yesterday he pointed out that if they are missing a handful of seats for the majority, the PSC “will know what to do”, taking into account that The Government needs the votes of JxCat in Madrid. “The PSC will know what it has to do and assume the consequences of its decisions, whatever they may be,” he said. “They will all be legitimate, but they all have consequences,” he said.
Puigdemont also assured that he will be at the first investiture debate in Parliament, which must be held on June 25 at the latest. “I will be present in any of the circumstances,” said the former president, who referred to the first act of Pedro Sánchez’s campaign in Catalonia as “a change of candidate” for the PSC.
In another vein, Puigdemont advocated “leading, making decisions and not being afraid of the banner.” In that sense, he assured that the expansion of the El Prat airport is paralyzed by “the electoral interests of the PSC in the territory.”
“To solve the problems at the Barcelona airport we do not have to be afraid of the PSC voters in the territory,” he said, referring to the residents of Gavà. “That’s what’s running the airport aground,” he concluded.
