Xavier Trias is a free verse within Junts per Catalunya, especially because he plans to leave Barcelona City Council sooner rather than later and make way for new leaders.
In recent months, the former convergent mayor has highlighted several times that he is in favor of talking to everyone, also with the Popular Party, and has referred several times to his relationship in the past, when he was Minister of Health, with the now president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who was a senior official in the Ministry of Health, general secretary of Health Assistance and president of Insalud. Back in 1996. In that sense, he pointed out today in an interview on the program Café de Ideees, on La 2 and Ràdio 4, that “yes” he imagines former president Carles Puigdemont negotiating with Feijóo.
“I have already negotiated and I have had a lot of relationship and good relationship,” continued the Junts leader, who pointed out that “he was a focused man” and that “now it seems that they have changed a chip.”
“If one day Feijóo wins at the level of Spain, he will have to change his approach, by force,” Trias pointed out. “And what will we have to do? Not talk?” Trias questioned.
All this comes after a few days ago the PP leadership admitted that it is willing to pardon Puigdemont if a series of conditions are met and that it studied last August the possibility of supporting an amnesty law “for 24 hours.” although in the end that option was ruled out.
In the interview, he also expressed confidence that the Amnesty law will end up being approved in the Congress of Deputies. There is room to seal an agreement in the Justice commission between PSOE and JxCat until March 7. “We have to find a trigger, everyone has to give in,” Trias pointed out.
