After this week’s earthquake in Esquerra Republicana, the party leadership begins to try to get the direction back on track until, on November 30, a new leadership is elected. After cushioning the internal shock over the future of Oriol Junqueras’ leadership, the next challenge is to face what to vote for in the investiture of the next president of the Generalitat and how to face the negotiation for the positions on the Parliament table. The executive, meeting this Friday, decided that it be Marta Rovira, general secretary of the formation, who will pilot these negotiations and that the decision reached regarding the election of the president be consulted with the bases.
“The position of the formation on the investiture will be validated with an electronic consultation with the militancy,” says the brief statement in which the Republicans reported on the leadership meeting. The third in five days. A spokesperson for the party has pointed out that the process will be carried out at the end of the entire negotiation, thus ruling out formulas in which all decision-making power falls on the management.
The party’s official line is to go to the opposition after last Sunday’s electoral setback, but its 20 deputies are key when it comes to deciding whether there is a new Executive or new elections are necessary. Both Salvador Illa (PSC) and Carles Puigdemont (Junts) have urged Republicans to give them their votes. However, only the sum with the socialists can move forward, since the one that the former president implies that Illa abstains in the second round. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Friday in an interview with La Sexta that he does not intend to make it easier for Puigdemont to lead the Government.
Both Junqueras – who wants to revalidate the position in November – and Aragonès himself (who accepted the defeat on 12-M, leaving the front line of active politics) defend that if the polls have boosted the PSC and Junts, it is those two formations that They have to agree. But abstaining from the investiture in both cases could imply a repeat election that could squander the political capital that remains for a party without a candidate and a divided leadership.
Precisely to cushion this division, the Executive has appointed Rovira as the person who will lead the budding negotiations. The law establishes that the Catalan Chamber must be formed before June 10 and an important part of the agreements is played there. The positions of the Parliamentary Board must be distributed and, to bring closer to an agreement, the presidency could be offered to the Republicans. In the past, the independentistas had used their absolute majority to guarantee their control of that body. For the first time, there is an alternative sum. There is also the distribution of the committee presidencies and the spaces in the building.
Once the legislature gets underway, the deadline for the first session of an investiture debate to be held is June 25, otherwise the polls must be called again. The answers about who to support and whether you choose only to vote for one of the candidates or enter the Executive will have to be led by Rovira from Geneva, where he lives to avoid the action of the Spanish justice system and his accusation for an alleged crime of terrorism. .
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Rovira, who has aligned himself with the president in office in the need to change faces in the party, he will thus assume the wear and tear of the decision made on the investiture. During the campaign, Aragonès always denied the possibility of reaching an agreement with Illa because he was against agreeing on the conditions for an agreed referendum and the unique financing for Catalonia. Junqueras, who will leave the leadership of ERC after the European elections, will thus ignore a very thorny decision.
Influential voices of the party, such as the former speaker in Congress, Joan Tardà, have positioned themselves in favor of voting for the socialists in the investiture and avoiding an electoral repetition as much as possible. “Esquerra would not have to block the investiture of Salvador Illa and would have to compete and collaborate at the same time to build a path together,” he said last Wednesday in an interview with La 2.
ERC has traditionally consulted its bases in transcendental decisions, such as some investitures in the Congress of Deputies or support there also for the Budgets. The last one was precisely last November. The yes vote to invest Pedro Sánchez obtained 89% of favorable votes. The participation then was 43.61% of the militancy. On the table was to push forward, for example, the amnesty law.
The 1 de Octubre Collective, a small group of militants critical of the ERC leadership, asked the party this Friday that the consultation held be specifically about yes or no to Illa.
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