The former president of the Generalitat and Junts candidate, Carles Puigdemont, has called the improvement of financing for Catalonia that the PSC and the ERC will negotiate in light of a possible investiture of Salvador Illa a “scandal” and has threatened to cut the aid for the government to withdraw. Government by Pedro Sánchez.
“The next general budgets of the state must speak very clearly if they want to have our support,” the former president warned in a post on the social network of Junts' support that allowed him to be invested.
Puigdemont has responded in this way to the start of negotiations between ERC and the PSC on a possible investiture of Salvador Illa. The first talks will take place in parallel with the round of consultations that the Speaker of Parliament, Josep Rull, will hold this week, but due to the lack of support for the inauguration of a candidate They could end in a plenary session that only serves to activate the countdown for the election repeat.
After the Republicans claimed Pedro Sánchez's involvement, this Sunday the president of the government He broke the ice in an interview in La Vanguardia, praising the ERC's “leadership and commitment” in achieving pardons and amnesty and calling for “consolidating the strategic relationship” between the two sides.
Although the negotiations between socialists and republicans are very green, the framework has already been established for an improvement in financing for Catalonia, giving the community a kind of unique character while maintaining solidarity with the rest of the communities. This is what Pere Aragonès claimed during the campaign as 'single financing'.
For his part, the former president has accused Sánchez of “playing with the well-being and future of Catalans as payment for benefits for the party,” something that, he has insisted, seems “immoral.” According to Puigdemont, socialists “only remember injustices when they themselves are affected.”
Puigdemont has also accused Sánchez of giving arguments to those who think that Catalans are demanding treatment that they do not deserve: “That is to say, we only get what we demand, not because it is fair, but because the party that currently Spain rules “He must take over the government in Catalonia at any cost.”
Manifesto of ERC charges
On the other hand, up to 309 ERC militants have asked in a manifesto entitled 'Reactivem l'Esquerra Nacional' to carry out a “general renewal of the leadership” as well as of the party itself, following the results of the last elections. elections, in a veiled message against Oriol Junqueras's intention to become the leader of the party again.
Among the signatories of the document are prominent government figures such as the Vice President of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagrà; councilors Roger Torrent, Ester Capella and Manel Balcells; and the Deputy Minister of Strategy and Communications, Sergi Sabrià.
Also other members of the party, such as the deputy in Congress Teresa Jordà; the former councilor and former party leader in Barcelona, Ernest Maragall; the former president of ERC Joan Puigcercós and other prominent militants such as Ernest Benach, Alba Vergés, Marta Cid, Marina Llansana or Oriol Amorós.
In the manifesto, put forward by Nació, the signatories claim that “a decade of sustained growth has been shortened by a structural decline,” marking the end of a cycle marked by demobilization and the decline of the left in Catalonia.
For this reason, they consider it necessary to open a new hopeful phase through “deep reflection and the infusion of fresh air into the ERC”, which they consider essential, and have pointed out that the National Congress of the party, scheduled for November 30, is a window of opportunity to finish it.