ERC winks at Junts to configure the Parliament Table while setting conditions for Illa for the investiture

There is one week left until the new legislature officially begins in Catalonia and the positions of the parties regarding the formation of the Parliament’s Board and the investiture debate are beginning to gain some concreteness. Esquerra Republicana, whose 20 deputies are key in both situations, redoubled the pressure on the PSC and Junts per Catalunya, the two groups that have asked for support. Republican spokesperson Raquel Sans made clear this Monday her party’s commitment to a Table that they call “anti-repressive” – ​​where Junts, CUP and the commons can have control by agreeing on their presidency – and set out their demand to decide on the election of the new head. of the Government: “Whoever intends to be invested, at the very least, should put the singular financing on the table,” he said at the weekly ERC press conference.

The general secretary of the Republicans, Marta Rovira, had already taken the step last Saturday when the demands landed. At a rally in Vic, the person in charge of leading the negotiations opened the melon of requests. “We will not use our votes for a president without a program in Catalonia. It is time to demand the fair and unique financing that the country needs,” she said via video conference. One of the spokespersons for the party, Raquel Sans, after the party’s weekly meeting, was in charge of redoubling the pressure. “We ask for singular financing because we have to defend the interests of all Catalans and, therefore, that those resources that are generated here serve to pay for the public services they need,” she said.

In the ranks of ERC they continue to insist on the need to agree on the conditions for holding an independence referendum – not a date – but the goal of achieving singular financing has been set. The proposal was presented by president in office, Pere Aragonès, before the elections, thus giving substance to what was agreed with the PSOE for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The Republicans’ claims involve the Tax Agency of Catalonia collecting and managing all taxes, agreeing with the Government on a contribution to an interterritorial solidarity fund and the payment of state services, such as the Army. The socialists, although they accept that the Generalitat is poorly financed, are committed to an improvement of the autonomous model and the development of the Statute with regard to the creation of a tax consortium made up of the Catalan tax administration and the state one.

“Let no one take our votes for granted,” Sans asked, after remembering that his party is not afraid of an electoral repetition to which they would arrive with a changed foot. Without an elected candidate and with its ranks completely divided by the internal pulse between the president of the formation, Oriol Junqueras, and those who defend the need for a change of faces in the leadership of the Republicans. The spokesperson has insisted that they have the resources and possible candidates, although she has not specified who or if progress has been made in this scenario. “We are prepared for everything,” she added.

Sans denied that “formally” the PSC or Junts had offered him the presidency of the Chamber within the negotiations that are taking place these days between the parties and clearly ratified the commitment to a Chamber Board whose presidency may not be in the hands of the PSC, the party with the most votes. The objective of this approach, which would require the common people to join, is that deputies who reside abroad can vote and “everything can be debated.” The spokesperson did her best to remove the PSC from that group, recalling that in the past she has positioned herself against the voting delegations of deputies who fled from Spanish justice abroad. However, the elected representative has also avoided entering into the name game of possible Republicans who will occupy the presidency and she has urged Comunes Sumar to make a move on what they plan to do at the Parliament Table.

Òmnium Cultural, for its part, has announced that it will create a “syndicate” to oversee the application of the amnesty law and ensure that all those affected can benefit. The cultural entity intends that this observatory serve to “coordinate the defenses of those who have been retaliated against”, which numbers more than 1,600 people despite the fact that the Government has always spoken that the number of those eligible for amnesty is around 400. The team of lawyers of Òmnium will report possible “violations” in the application of the law by the courts. “We are aware that the State’s repressive machine is still in motion and the obsession with dynamiting the amnesty and criminalizing the independence movement will continue,” the president of the entity, Xavier Antich, stated at an event this Monday.

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