Under the shadow of the approval of the amnesty law, negotiations have already begun to emerge to form the Parliament’s table and the investiture in Catalonia. The CUP has thrown a bucket of cold water and has shown its “skepticism” about Carles Puigdemont’s plan to return to being president needing to do so the support of the 61 secessionist deputies and the abstention of the winner of the elections, the PSC (42 deputies). The pressure from the two major pro-independence parties, in parallel, has increased towards the socialists: MEP Toni Comín (Junts) has warned Pedro Sánchez that his party will withdraw its support if the PSC does not invest Puigdemont, while Marta Rovira (ERC) has maintained that right now the conditions do not exist to do the same with Salvador Illa. The PSC has not hidden its concern about the complexity of the conversations and is committed to the majority on the left.
After a few days of silence, the tension of the negotiation has emerged just now that the European election campaign has reached the halfway point. The anti-capitalists, who are not running in those elections, have shown in a statement their misgivings about Puigdemont’s project. “It is key that Junts publicly explain the conditions of this alleged abstention [del PSC]”, say the anti-capitalists after meeting with the former president. The socialists, in any case, have never given signs that ceding the Generalitat to Junts is a possibility, but rather the opposite. After the independence movement lost its absolute majority, the CUP, which has gone from nine to four seats in these elections, advocates carrying out an in-depth analysis “both at a social and political level.”
The leader of the anti-capitalists, Laia Estrada, had already shown in advance her rejection of “selling smoke” after the elections, but the CUP has insisted this Friday on the importance of guaranteeing a Parliament Table with a pro-independence majority that “guarantees rights and defends the sovereignty of the Parliament and confront the repression of the State.” And she also sends a message to ERC not to facilitate the investiture of Illa, winner of 12-M with 42 seats but who fell far short of the absolute majority (68). “Any government that supports or is part of the PSC will represent a setback in national policies,” she says. The deadline for negotiations to finalize the composition of the table is June 10, one day after the European elections, which is when the deadline to establish the Parliament is met.
The negotiations to form the Roundtable have coincided with displays of unity among the independence movement after the approval of the amnesty law. This Friday, Junts, ERC and the CUP staged the intention to recover a certain unitary image in an event convened by Òmnium in which a manifesto was read in favor of the “plurality and diversity” of the movement and in which the message was mainly visual: a photo to which the commons have also been added. The independence movement proposes promoting an “anti-repressive table” to run the Parliament and retain its majority despite having lost it in the chamber (they have gone from 74 to 61 deputies). The socialists assume that the accounts would work out for them and ask that all groups vote for themselves out of respect for the results of 12-M. In that case, according to the PP’s calculation, the distribution of the seven positions would be this: 3 positions for PSC, 2 for Junts, 1 for ERC and 1 for the PP.
Rovira has increased the alarm installed in the PSC after in an interview on the Rac1 radio station he said that ERC will act with “coherence” and “therefore”, will not do president to Salvador Illa right now.” However, the temporary nuance leaves the door open to a negotiation with the PSC. “The elections do not scare us,” he said in reference to a possible repeat of the elections. The leader, resident in Switzerland, has rejected the “pressure” on ERC to avoid a political blockade and has recalled that one of her demands is that of the referendum.
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Meanwhile, from Brussels, Comín has stressed that what is “coherent” and “consequent” is that the PSOE invests Puigdemont. “Based on the arithmetic that no one has an absolute majority, we understand that if the PSOE wants the Brussels agreement to prosper, it must facilitate Puigdemont’s inauguration,” he told the Efe agency. He former president Artur Mas, in an article in the newspaper Ara titled The Catalan trencaclosques (The Catalan puzzle) has maintained that barring a miracle the two most viable scenarios are a Government in the minority of Illa or a repeat election. And in this last case, he has encouraged the pro-independence parties, no matter how much it generates “hives” for some, to participate in a joint electoral platform to win and change the chessboard.
The PSC considers it a “mistake” to go to other elections
The socialists remain faithful to their strategy based on four legs: that the result of 12-M must be respected, that the chamber now shows a progressive majority, that we must not waste the citizens’ time and that they do not plan to negotiate with the extreme right of Vox and Aliança Catalana. The PSC’s position is irrevocable and it is willing to repeat the election – which it does not want – if ERC makes the referendum a condition. The socialists do not hide their perplexity at understanding that the Republicans can align with Junts when this party abandoned the Executive and voted twice against the budgets. The PSC maintains that a repeat election would be a mistake.
His situation is in any case privileged: the socialists can reach 68 seats of the absolute majority whether he looks to the left (with ERC and commons) or to the right if PP and Vox vote for him in this case for the investiture. Where PSC and PP already agree is on the criterion that should be applied to decide the positions on the Board. “Before Catalonia went politically crazy, the groups voted for themselves. It is our position: the most democratic and respectful of what the people have voted for,” defended the president of the PP, Alejandro Fernández, who claims a position on the Board for the PP in accordance with its 15 seats.
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