Junts per Catalunya insists on claiming the role of leader of the independence movement and gives another twist to its strategy to get ERC to support the investiture of Carles Puigdemont as president of the Generalitat. The head of the Junts list for the European elections, Toni Comín, considered this Tuesday that, if Puigdemont is not granted the possibility of undergoing an investiture debate, the elections in Catalonia will have to be repeated. “If they do not propose to president Puigdemont as a candidate for the investiture, we will have to go to a repeat election. We do not want it, but the alternative to the investiture of the president It is the repetition. I don’t see any other candidate with options to be invested,” said Comín. Junts obtained 35 seats in the Catalan regional elections on May 12, while the PSC obtained 42. ERC, with 20 deputies, has a key role in deciding who is the future Catalan president: Puigdemont or the socialist Salvador Illa.
Comín, who has served as an MEP alongside Puigdemont in the last five years – both left Spain in 2017 to avoid being tried – has also urged ERC and the CUP to join Junts in a unitary list in the event that that repetition of elections occurs in the fall. A joint pro-independence list, the Junts candidate has stated in an interview with Digital was born, would be “the second best scenario” after Puigdemont’s investiture, because it is “for the benefit of everyone.” “For ERC and the CUP it is better to go to a repeat election with a joint list than separately. I understand that they are in a very delicate situation due to the result of the 12-M elections, and going separately can weaken them further,” he argued.
The convenience of grouping the independence movement under a single electoral proposal has been repeated in Junts since the electoral scrutiny of 12-M ended and it was confirmed that Puigdemont had been surpassed by Salvador Illa. A result that, added to the disaster of ERC, left the pro-independence parties without a majority in Parliament. Last Friday, the former president Artur Mas published an article in the newspaper Ara where he highlighted that “if in new elections the two main pro-independence parties joined forces in a joint electoral platform, they would clearly come first.” But he repeated the same idea this Tuesday, in an interview in TV3.
“A point of no return” for Catalonia
The musician Lluís Llach, recently elected president of the pro-independence entity Catalan National Assembly (ANC), has also today called on the secessionist parties to occupy “all possible spaces” within politics to avoid the “denationalization of Catalonia” that is would occur, from his point of view, with an Illa presidency. In statements to La 2, Llach has placed the Parliament’s Table (which must be constituted next Monday) as the first point of agreement that the independentists should reach to avoid this “denationalization”, which he believes would imply “a point of no return” in Catalonia.
Llach, who was a regional deputy for Junts pel Sí (the coalition that then made up Convergència and ERC) in full processeshas revealed that in the last elections to the Parliament he voted for Junts for Carles Puigdemont, and has announced that in the European elections next Sunday he will vote for Toni Comín “out of friendship” and “for a purely humanitarian issue.”
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