Salvador Illa ruled out an agreement with Junts three days ago. Carles Puigdemont acknowledged this Wednesday that he only plans to govern with ERC and has ruled out the PSC. These crossed vetoes make Pere Aragonès see himself in a key position for any pact on either side. This, if the words don't blow away with the wind. The ERC candidate does not believe these vetoes and continues to raise the scare of an alliance between socialists and post-convergents. It was prompted by the leader of the PSC himself, who yesterday implied that Junts sought his support after getting off the Government bandwagon in October 2022 to force elections.
“Those who through the back door wanted to agree on a motion of censure cannot speak of unity,” Aragonès stressed at the campaign event yesterday in Tortosa. For the Republican, with Illa's revelation it is confirmed that "whenever they can they unite." “Therefore, they should not be able” to do so, he said yesterday.
The president notes something else: that the calls for unity that Puigdemont has demanded for three weeks "are made of papier-mâché." “Unity is always being on the side of the institutions of Catalonia, not abandoning the Government in the middle of a pandemic,” added Aragonès, while highlighting that in these elections “what Junts proposed to the PSC must be made impossible; that ending the Republican presidency will happen on May 12.”
The event in Tortosa also served to make Aragonès firmly commit to ensuring that in the next four years the foundations for a referendum are laid and to obtain unique financing.
Oriol Junqueras, also present in Tortosa, wanted to deal another blow. He did so by comparing himself to Puigdemont and his supposed personal interest in this electoral race: "I don't ask for anything for myself, I have no chance of holding office because they won't let me, I want everything for your children and grandchildren."
But all this does not prevent ERC from continuing to hold in its hands the necessary cards that will allow it after the Catalan elections to ally with whoever meets its expectations. The Republicans have never closed the door to coalitions with the PSC and Junts. Not with the CUP or the commons.
Even so, there is not a day that does not attack the first two. Raquel Sans, number one on the Republican ticket in the Tarragona district, repeated the reproaches at the campaign event in Tortosa. In the morning, Ester Capella recalled that “the disaster” of Rodalies “is managed by the socialists.”
The president of the Port of Barcelona, Lluís Salvadó, a native of La Ràpita, also participated in the event. He appreciated that the Government has always opposed the transfer of the Ebro to supply water to the metropolitan area of Barcelona. And he made a revelation: he would have left the party if the Catalan Executive had not worked to preserve the Delta.
