The pronouncements of the Catalan independence political leaders in the coming days, on the government formulas in Catalonia, will only have the potential to fill the fear of the information vacuum, but without practical consequences. The political attention that will come in these weeks will be on the statements aimed at gaining followers in their own ranks to resolve the open leadership crisis in ERC and, which, according to different interlocutors, may also explode in Junts per Catalunya. The Catalan republican party, after the resignation of the acting president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, – after the disastrous electoral result – has opened its doors and now without restrictions. Not having power, they begin the march towards a new leadership with a different project and strategy: nothing to lose. A week after the elections that shook the party’s core, there appears to be an absence of unanimity regarding who should lead the project. Oriol Junqueras, current president, will aspire to lead it, although in a few hours he discovered that not everyone considers him the indisputable figure that he apparently seemed to be during the processeshis imprisonment, and in the decision to support, always with negotiation, the Government of Spain.
More than ever in the PSOE and in the Executive of Pedro Sánchez – the same happens in Sumar – the PSC, a party that is as brotherly as it is autonomous, is looked to so that its leader, Salvador Illa, acts as he considers most appropriate. No interference. The PSC will not move from calling on the rest of the parties to allow the investiture of Salvador Illa. In no case will the votes of the socialist parliamentarians go to invest Carles Puigdemont as president. Not only are these public statements by Illa, always reinforced by Pedro Sánchez, but the conversations expressed confidentially are even more emphatic in this denial of surrendering to Puigdemont.
Nothing at the moment quells the satisfaction of the PSC, for its part, and the PSOE, for its own part, with the result of the Catalan elections, knowing that the blockade is a possibility that could occur in the formation of a government.
There will be no changes, at least for the moment, in the PP’s speech strategies: Sánchez will “sacrifice” Illa and hand over the PSC votes to Carles Puigdemont, the only way to have the support of Junts in Congress and keep the legislature in March. This is the unquestionable assertion that the leaders of the PP hold aloud and this will be the case until the vote for the European elections. It is not in the power of Pedro Sánchez – it has never been in the power of any leader of the PSOE – to force the PSC to do something it does not want to do. Furthermore, in this case, Sánchez will not pressure Illa to offer the presidency to the leader of Junts, according to interlocutors from the party and the Government. Before, elections, there and in Spain, these interlocutors point out.
The PP will not give up, however, in this argument supported, furthermore, by the wings that the amnesty will take for those involved in the processes, whose law will be approved in Congress days before the European elections. On Thursday, May 30, the probable date of the debate, a large rally will be held in the Lower House on the occasion of pardoning the independence supporters. All parties count on it. The preview will occur this Wednesday with Sánchez’s appearance in Congress, where the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will outline where he places the emphasis of his strategy. The high expectations of the PP for the European elections just a few weeks ago have been moderated by confirming a certain recovery of the PSOE. The amnesty for the independentists, and all the references to support for the Government of these groups, are a powerful accusatory support in broad sectors of society from which the PP does not want to part.
The amnesty will return with force to the national discourse. Not only for the PP, but for the application of the rule that will correspond to the judges. In recent days, not only has Puigdemont’s legal team studied the vicissitudes he may go through before he could set foot on Spanish soil; It is also valued in CKD. They are not alien to the legal conviction of the Supreme Court that the amnesty law does not include the lifting of the disqualification of Oriol Junqueras to be an electoral candidate if the elections were repeated. In the end, it would have to be the Constitutional Court that would decide whether or not the president of the ERC is covered by the amnesty, both to be an electoral candidate and to recover his position as a university professor. This requires time, which is why ERC, at least the Junqueras sector, abhors returning to the polls in October, which is when they should be held if there is no candidate with the necessary support to be invested as president of the Generalitat.
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