They paint rough for Catalonia if the PP takes over the Government, either together with Vox or without the extreme right between the four walls of the Palacio de la Moncloa. This is what the independence movement believes, which is why Esquerra and Junts, in addition to the CUP, seek to reorient their strategy on the national axis. Today, in Parliament, Pere Aragonès has insisted on the idea of ??agreeing between the three parties on some points to deal with a hypothetical government led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo and has demanded a consensus on a “programmatic common minimum”. There is one week left until the general election campaign begins.
This morning the president and the leader of the JxCat ranks in the Catalan Chamber, Albet Batet, have tested each other, so much so that they have avoided reproaching each other, and have set out to seal a strategic unit that for now resists crystallizing. The tune was anticipated a few hours before by the number one of the Junts candidacy for Congress, Míriam Nogueras, in an interview on RTVE, where, in addition to calling on the parties to make self-criticism, she stressed that after the municipal elections “it has begun to weave something” between the pro-independence parties.
Batet has shared the idea of ??Aragonès that in the elections of July 23 the independence movement “has a lot at stake”, which is why he has opted to forge a “unity that becomes a reality”. “Going alone does not achieve anything,” said the post-convergent before celebrating the “rectification” of the head of the Government when it came to claiming a “joint position in Madrid.” Batet has recalled that precisely the lack of consensus on this point was one of the reasons why his formation left the Catalan Executive in October of last year. For Junts, it is necessary to “remake the independence unit.”
“On July 23 we played a lot of things, but also on the 25th, 25th and 26th and the rest of the days,” Aragonès replied. “My Government will not resign in any case from its responsibilities in defending the country’s interests, language, culture, the school model, the welfare state, the economic model, people’s rights, the fight against climate change or in favor of the right to self-determination”, stressed the president of the Generalitat before stating that ERC would feel comfortable agreeing with Junts on a shared program.
The public uniformity that Aragonès and Batet have exhibited in public has not occurred between the president and the CUP. The anti-capitalist deputy Eulàlia Reguant has insisted on putting a referendum at the center of the debate, taking advantage of the fact that Spain will preside over the Council of the European Union from 1 July. She has demanded “a change of course” from the pro-independence formations to avoid a repeat of the abstention of the pro-independence electorate from the municipal elections.
For Reguant, Esquerra and the Government “dance to the rhythm of the PSOE and the employers’ association” and he has remarked that one of the reasons for abstention has been “bewilderment, frustration and lack of motivation” which, in his opinion, has led to the via dialogue and the negotiation table that was opened with Pedro Sánchez. Even so, the deputy has agreed that the lack of a shared roadmap harms the independence movement.
Aragonès has denied that the dialogue table between the Spanish and Catalan governments has not borne fruit. He has valued the freedom of the independence leaders imprisoned for 1-O and the reform of the Penal Code, which implied the repeal of the crime of sedition.
