The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has been convinced that JuntsxCat will not leave the Govern, a possibility that is included in the formation report that must be approved in mid-July and that provides for the possibility of consulting the militancy for the Government agreement with ERC after the presentation of the audit on its follow-up.
"I am convinced that this scenario is not going to happen," the president assured this Thursday in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio after acknowledging that what is needed is "stability in governments" in a post-pandemic context, with high inflation and with the Ukrainian war. For this reason, he has indicated that he sees himself finishing the legislature to finish the work done.
Junts' paper also plans to end the dialogue table between the Spanish and Catalan governments on the fifth anniversary of 1-O, that is, within three months. However, Aragonès has defended this negotiation forum, which he has said will never be lifted. "Leaving the negotiating table would be a gift to the Spanish state that they don't even deserve." Despite acknowledging "not enough progress has been made", the president has pointed out that the Generalitat has recovered "interlocution with the European institutions", for which he has warned that this is "a flag that the independence movement can never abandon out of conviction and interest".
However, he has urged the Spanish government to make its proposal because what Pedro Sánchez's Executive "cannot pretend", in his opinion, is that "with the pardons it has already complied". "I will never get up from the table but I will demand that whoever sits down comes with proposals," insisted the head of the Executiu. "If the Spanish government does not resolve the conflict, it will have to assume political consequences."
Precisely, Sánchez has been the target of criticism from the president also for the low level of budget execution. The President of the Government "usually always denies reality" in the face of problems, which for Aragonès "is not a good way to govern or solve problems".
The Republican leader has also rejected the figures that Sánchez gave in the Senate on the budget execution of the Generalitat (57%) to emphasize that the problem was shared with all administrations. According to the president, this figure as of December 2021 was 71% in relation to the Generalitat's investments in infrastructure and 88% in transfers to municipalities. "I don't know where he gets the figure from," he asserted.
Aragonès has also reproached the Sánchez Executive for its handling of the Pegasus case, which for him has meant a "negative turning point" in the bilateral relationship. "No one gives any explanation and everyone considers it valid", lamented the president of the Generalitat, who has announced that in the coming days he will file an entry complaint against the company NSO Group, creator of the Pegasus spyware, although "extendable " in case the investigation points to other responsible parties.
Aragonès has demanded to know why the CNI asked to investigate him and a judge authorized it and has described as "falsehoods" what has been said so far about the reasons for espionage on his person in relation to the fact that he could coordinate the CDR. "Anyone who follows Catalan politics knows it", the president has settled while denouncing again a "double yardstick". When it affects the Government, the National High Court enters, he explained, while when it affects the Generalitat nothing happens, which in his opinion proves that "there are first-class and second-class institutions."
Aragonès has defended the new Catalan law approved in the Parliament that places Spanish as the curricular language in Catalan schools, considering that Catalan is much more protected today than it was before, since it protects the directors of the centers and treats the use of Spanish with "pedagogical criteria and not percentages". In any case, he has maintained that the Constitution enshrines a legal difference between the two languages that we will only overcome with an independent State.
The president of the Generalitat has also taken the opportunity to try to settle the controversy with Junts over Gabriel Rufián's words about Carles Puigdemont, whom he called a moron for proclaiming independence, and later apologized, pressured by Aragonès himself and the party. "It's time to look forward," said the president after reiterating what was said yesterday in Parliament and verifying that the ERC spokesman in Congress paid attention to him when he demanded a rectification.
Asked if he maintains support for the party's spokesman in Madrid, Aragonès has made it clear that all deputies of his formation have his support and wanted to value the fact that Rufián has apologized, to the extent that in politics he does not usually occur. Likewise, he has pointed out that many times in politics "you end up attacking whoever is closest" and has urged the independence movement to "work on what we share and not on what separates us".
