“I am going to tell you that I am going to attend the inauguration, but I need more time to put together the only way that can make this legislature viable, which is to put together a progressive majority composed of my political party, ERC. and the Comuns, which has a total of 68 out of 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia,” he explained in front of the Cadena Ser microphones.
In the same sentence, he emphasized: “That is why I am going to tell you: President, I am going to the inauguration, I need more time to gather this progressive majority”.
Moreover, Salvador Illa has insisted that a possible investiture of Carles Puigdemont is not feasible, as he would have 74 votes against it. In this regard, Illa has criticized the position of the Junts, who could face the investiture knowing that they do not have the support: “Junts is considering going to the elections again”. According to the PSC leader, Puigdemont's party plans to go to the polls again “until what they want comes true”, but he recalled that the Catalan people had already spoken in the elections on May 12.
I will tell the President of Parliament that I will encourage the investiture, but that I need more time to be able to form a progressive majority, integrated by @socialistes_cat, ERC in Comuns. This majority of 68 deputies is the only one that makes the investiture viable. pic.twitter.com/n7WJ6w1SVo
— Salvador Illa Roca/❤️ (@salvadorilla) June 17, 2024
The newly elected chairman of the parliamentary council, Josep Rull, of Junts, this week called on the leaders of the different groups of the autonomous chamber to address this scenario, with the aim of holding the first investiture debate on June 25.
The former Minister of Health has lately remained critical of the position of the people of Puigdemont, who could ask him to attend the inauguration, knowing that he does not have the necessary support, and he has re-emphasized this in this interview and ensured that 'Junts is about to go to elections again'. To avoid a new appointment at the elections, the Socialists have tried in recent days to take closer positions at the ERC, now within the framework of regional financing.
However, with this request for time from Illa, who despite winning the elections must make agreements to form a government, and with the pressure from the Junts, one of the scenarios proposed after the May 12 elections would : the first plenary investiture session comes into force. the countdown to a possible electoral repeat in Catalonia, which would postpone the calendar until after the summer. “My commitment is to do everything possible to prevent a repeat of elections,” Illa said in the interview.
To relations with republicansIlla has called for reflection by asking the following question: 'Which political formation that, in short, has been behind it for a few years, has not gone through complicated and turbulent times? You do well for a while and then you do poorly. “This is how it is in democracy and this is how it should be,” he emphasized.
At national level, on the impact that the current political scenario in Catalonia has on the whole of Spain, Illa, on the role the country can play in this regard the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended that he is “very calm”. In this sense, and because it is one of the last proposals made regarding the one-time financing of autonomy, the leader of the PSC has not embarked on in-depth evaluations. He has only indicated that he will defend the system that meets Catalonia's needs.
Puigdemont is suing for the offer to ERC
In this context, and on this Monday morning, that was the case Carlos Puigdemont the one who reacted with great rejection to the PSOE's offer to the ERC to persuade the Republicans to support Salvador Illa: unique financing for Catalonia.
“The news that the PSOE is offering unique financing if you support a government chaired by its candidate for Catalonia is a scandal in every respect“, and President Sánchez should answer several questions if he intends to get the support that allowed him to lead the government despite his defeat in the elections,” added the leader of the Junts and candidate to preside over the Generalitat to.
He also asked a series of questions:He believes that the funding we Catalans deserve Does it depend on whether your party's candidate is sworn in as president? ¿All the injustice we suffer“Is all the money going away, all the lack of budget implementation we have so far, due to the fact that your party does not preside over the Generalitat?”
And she did not hesitate to call Pedro Sánchez's proposal “blackmail” and assure that “Catalonia needs its own economic agreement not as a concession for one or the other to govern, but because the people of Catalonia have demanded it through their parliament and ratified it in several elections.”
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