Things begin to move seriously a month after the Catalan elections of 12-M and on the eve of the week in which the president of ParliamentJosep Rull, begins the round of conversations with the parliamentary groups for the investiture of a President of the Generalitat. In two events of the PSC and ERC this Saturday, their leaders, Salvador Illa (winner of the elections and who aspires to govern) and Marta Rovira have announced that formal negotiations are beginning and have referred, above all, to the need for Catalonia have better financing. In response to the main priority expressed by the Republicans, Illa has assured that “the Government of Spain will help improve the financing of Catalonia.” “It cannot be that Catalonia is the third to contribute resources and the fourteenth to receive resources. It is not a privilege, it is a question of justice, I want to get to work as soon as possible to solve it,” he said during a speech before the Baix Llobregat federation.
Minutes before, Marta Rovira had warned during the National Council of the Republicans that improving financing is the first priority of ERC, the “minimum required.” “If there are no resources, there will be cuts, and Illa must know that if Pedro Sánchez does not make a move for singular financing, it will be very difficult for him to have our support. The key is more in the hands of the PSOE and Sánchez than Illa,” she warned in a telematic intervention from Geneva. The possibility of singular financing for Catalonia clashes head-on with the territorial rejection of at least nine communities, governed by both the PP and the PSOE.
Rovira has announced that during next week ERC will meet with PSC and Junts. “We will talk to everyone and we will ask everyone the same thing,” she warned in reference to the singular financing. But he has also demanded that the Socialists and Junts explain “what project they have for the country” and has warned them: “We are not in a hurry, we do not have all the responsibility, the two parties that have had more votes than us are not launching proposals, they are not “We will feel pressure, we will not cheapen an agreement if it is not good for the country.” In the medium term, ERC will face a congress in November (the deadline that Oriol Junqueras has given himself to decide his role in the party). This Saturday some voices have questioned an eventual return of Junqueras and have opted for renewing faces and leadership. In the shorter term, the decision of the Barcelona militancy as to whether ERC enters to govern the city with Mayor Jaume Collboni has remained up in the air, an issue that has been the protagonist of the political week in the Catalan capital but which ended abruptly. when the planned vote was suspended on Thursday. As a result of internal tensions, the party does not clarify when it will resume the pending debate and vote. The issue was barely discussed at the meeting on Calàbria Street.
The first secretary of the Catalan socialists also wanted to make it very clear that his priority is a left-wing tripartite government, with ERC and also the commons. “We socialists maintain and will maintain the will not to explore any alternative path to a progressive government, it is the only path we will explore,” he stated before emphasizing that they do not want to know “anything about the extreme right, nor from here, Aliança Catalana , nor the one over there, Vox.” Illa has not cited Junts, but from his words it is clear that he does not enter into her priorities when negotiating.
Illa has expressed his chest that in the last electoral cycle, of five elections in four years (municipal, general, regional and European) “the PSC has been the response chosen by the Catalans” and has promised “generosity, assuming the commitment of a stage that will be decided in Catalonia and from Catalonia, without mixing folders and working to reach a Government as soon as possible.”
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Assembly of the commons in November and housing as a priority
Catalunya en comú also held a National Council this Saturday to address current political events. Two of her three general coordinators, Ada Colau and Jèssica Albiach, were scheduled to intervene, but the former mayor of Barcelona did not attend the meeting and only the deputy and leader of the parliamentary group spoke. Albiach has pointed out that the results of the commons “have not been good” in the last elections and has opted to “look to the horizon, think and reflect”, because “the commons are more necessary than ever and it is necessary to connect” with citizens . In this sense, she has announced that the national assembly, the highest body of the party, will meet in November of this year. “A process to oxygenate ourselves, nourish ourselves with new ideas, people and new ways of communicating,” she has advanced about an appointment in which there will be changes in direction.
Albiach has also opted for a left-wing tripartite government in the Generalitat and has warned that the “highest priority for the commons will be that the new future Government have access to housing at the heart of its policies to face the housing emergency.” The deputy has called for understanding to put together a progressive government, “because the other option is an electoral repetition of which Junts per Catalunya dreams.”
ERC MEP Jordi Solé leaves the leadership of the party after being removed from the European list
Jordi Solé, an ERC MEP until a few days ago, informed his party’s executive this Saturday of his resignation as a member of the ERC national leadership due to the “deep disappointment” he felt at being removed from the candidacy for the elections.
European elections on June 9. In a writing published on his account on the immensely grateful to ERC for the opportunities it has given me to do politics on its behalf,” he says in reference to the signing, in his place, of TV3 meteorologist Tomàs Molina as number two in the ERC candidacy for the European elections.
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