Together, he demands that Aragonès hold elections or raise a question of confidence

A matter of trust, to clarify which are the new alliances of Pere Aragonès in the Parlament after the departure of Junts per Catalunya from the Govern de la Generalitat, or early elections, "as they have done in other European countries", such as Denmark.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
08 October 2022 Saturday 23:32
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Together, he demands that Aragonès hold elections or raise a question of confidence

A matter of trust, to clarify which are the new alliances of Pere Aragonès in the Parlament after the departure of Junts per Catalunya from the Govern de la Generalitat, or early elections, "as they have done in other European countries", such as Denmark. Yesterday Jordi Turull and Laura Borràs put these two scenarios on the table clearly, without the ambiguities that existed in the first assessment they made on Friday after the formation that both lead left the Catalan Executive.

The general secretary was the first to raise it in an appearance before the media in Móra la Nova (Tarragona) at noon and the president seconded him in the afternoon from Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (Barcelona).

It is Junts' first move as an opposition party, which is now awaiting what happens in the coming days and what Esquerra does. But if the legislature goes ahead, as everything seems to indicate, the party plans to face the president at the sectoral and national level. "Our opposition will be firm and forceful, but also proposal", they point out in the post-convergence direction.

Until now there was a corset that limited the room for maneuver of Junts in Parliament, the coalition with the Republicans. Once these contention is broken, the party feels free to openly propose its differentiated model in various areas such as the economy and taxation, infrastructure or education, among others. "Many of our actions were limited by the agreement with the ERC, and we did not criticize the policies of some of the departments that they lead, now we will be able to do so," party sources summarize. "It will not be a no to everything, if there are reasonable proposals on transcendental issues, we will study them and from outside we will try to influence, as all groups without responsibility in the Government do," they add. "We will not have the strength of the Government, but we will have consistency in the discourse," says a member of the formation.

In Junts they trust that in this way, with a clearly pro-independence discourse, and without complexes in the sectoral sphere, they will be able to mobilize part of the pro-independence electorate that stayed at home in the last Parliamentary elections,–and stepping on the entire territory Catalan, with an eye on the municipal ones–.

Yesterday Borràs assured that his party had formalized 200 new registrations of militants in the last 24 hours since the party decided to break with ERC. During a visit to the cava fair in Sant Sadurní, the president assured that the result of the internal consultation will allow the independence movement to "get back on track" and is having a direct effect on the arrival of new members.

That is the strategy of doors for out. Internally, the formation will have its first in-depth debate tomorrow at the executive meeting, since only Turull and Borràs spoke on Friday. Sources consulted indicate that there is a conspiracy among the leaders to avoid splits or fractures after the consultation held by the party this week evidenced the division of opinion and that there are two strategies to follow. “We will look for the midpoint, as we have done so far. We were already a diverse party from the beginning”, points out a leader.

In this way, for now, changes in the internal balance of the party are ruled out, although there are those who believe that the results of the vote modify the panorama.

The former general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Sànchez, in Catalunya Ràdio, pointed out yesterday that Borràs's leadership is "very clearly reinforced" and she now feels more legitimized, although the reading that was made in the congress, in June and July, it was the opposite. “Although the victory is clear, it is not very convincing. There are more than 40% who have to say their own”, says a leader in this regard.

In another order of things, Sànchez asserted that with the decision that the Junts militancy has adopted, "hugely transcendental", "a stage is closed". "Now we can say that the procés has definitely been closed", assured the leader pro-independence party, which emphasized that since 2012 Catalan politics had been characterized by the "permanent search for an agreement between the two major pro-independence parties".

Regarding the negotiation of the next budgets of the Generalitat, Borràs left in the air the possibility that they have the support of JxCat.