The leader of Junts per Catalunya in the Barcelona City Council, Xavier Trias, does not close the door on negotiating the investiture of the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, as long as Vox is not part of the equation and the Catalan language is respected. “I would not refuse to make a serious negotiation, as long as they are willing to recognize us,” says the convergent former mayor in an interview in the newspaper Ara.
“If Mr. Núñez Feijóo believes that we are doing linguistic apartheid here, I have nothing to negotiate with him, because a person who wants to be president of Spain cannot carry out anti-Catalan politics,” stresses Xavier Trias, who regrets that the PP and PSOE vote with the PNV the Basque quota without problems and, on the other hand, there is no “proposal of truth” so that the economic situation of Catalonia has “a minimum of logic”.
Given the harangues of his formation to go to Madrid to “block”, as the candidate of his space for the Senate, Toni Castellà, said last Tuesday in the presentation of the candidacies for the general elections on July 23, Trias considers that can “put pressure on Madrid”. “We have to highlight the bad treatment in the financing of the Generalitat” and they have to “create problems for the State”, maintains the leader of Junts, who advocates not investing Pedro Sánchez or Feijóo “in exchange for nothing”. In this sense, he points out that “a very important thing could be negotiated: the language” and warns that it is not possible to “support any state party that continues with the war against Catalan”.
Trias also stresses that “in life you always have to negotiate.” “Even to approve a referendum you need to negotiate. I am in favor of having another referendum, but it has to be negotiated,” he adds.
On the other hand, the convergent former mayor predicts that PDECat “will do badly” in the general elections on July 23 and believes that he should consider his strategy for the future, while adding that Junts, the party in which he is a member, must be generous to incorporate people.
Trias, who in the municipal elections brought together both formations, considers it nonsense that forces from the post-convergent space compete on 23-J. “We all have to go in the same direction because they want to annihilate us. Do we defend ourselves better if we go together or separately?” Asked if he will vote the same as the former presidents of the Generalitat Artur Mas and Jordi Pujol in the general elections, he replied that all three will vote for Junts per Catalunya: “And also, I ask that all those who have voted for me not even vote for Socialists nor PP, because they are going after us”.
