The president of the Generalitat made official this Wednesday in the Parliament the proposal that he launched this Tuesday from the Palau de la Generalitat to remake the independence unit with the aim of "defending Catalonia" from the "threat" that a victory "of the right and the extreme right” in the general elections of 23-J. Pere Aragonès summoned Junts and the CUP to an alliance that has already rejected that it should be translated into a unitary electoral list, therefore, it should not be "a one-day ballot" but "it should be a fundamental, constant alliance" , drawing.
In the control session with the Government, the president parked the reproaches with the rest of the pro-independence formations in the Parliament that for months have characterized the sessions of the Catalan Chamber to encourage finding a consensus formula to face this threat. Faced with the risk that "in the next session in Congress we will find this speech (by PP and Vox) attacking Catalonia", Aragonès was willing to "listen to alternatives", but urged action because "Catalonia has to defend” to preserve “what unites us: culture, language, civil and political rights; in defense of our country, ”he insisted.
The control session in the Parliament was marked by the results of last Sunday's elections and by the electoral advance of July. The president tries to fight against the demobilization of the pro-independence voter evidenced on Sunday, who has suffered particularly harshly from his party, Esquerra. ERC and the president are concerned about the plebiscite framework in which these elections have been involved, where a big dilemma is being raised between the left (PSOE) and the right (PP) that could have negative repercussions on the rest of the Catalan political options.
ERC has lost 300,000 votes in the elections on Sunday, Junts barely 5,800, which is why the president appealed this Tuesday to a common pro-independence front that allows the Republicans not to receive a new setback at the polls that blurs their current representation in the Congress of the Deputies.
Aragonès has extended his hand to Junts and the CUP. In response to the president of the post-convergent parliamentary group, Albert Batet, the president relegated the reproaches: "The danger is very great", he has warned, and for this reason he has called for "add as many people as possible to a shared job that can have different formulas ”, he admitted. In fact, Batet reminded him of multiple reasons for the disagreement between the two main pro-independence formations, from the departure of the Junts Government, the dialogue table with the State, or the pro-independence strategic coordination in Congress, which is why the president insisted on his predisposition to “discuss formulas, but on the basis of respect for the positions of the other”.
"It is clear what we are facing when listening to Vox: this can be the one who governs the State" and in view of this "mobilization is needed, if we understand that the adversary is who we have in front of us, not next to us," the president summoned. Aragonès encouraged to discuss it and to open "shared work spaces" that "will not be resolved in 24 hours," he admitted, but "we can generate a turning point that restores hope to this country."
The way to convey this independence unity will be the problem to overcome, as the president expressed: The challenge is "how to face this threat and be better at serving the citizenry" because "while we get involved in discussions making little scratches to the compañero , we can have a great bite from the extreme right, ”he warned.
Deep down, neither Junts nor ERC want a single list in the style of Junts pel Sí. ERC made it clear this Tuesday and Junts, in the words of former president Puigdemont, limited this unit “for independence”, but “for other things it does not They need to waste time," he said. To try to carry out the company, the president has summoned the leaders of Junts, the CUP, ERC and En Comú Podem to the Palau de la Generalitat, but has excluded the PSC.
In fact, ERC and Aragonès consider that Pedro Sánchez's electoral call is "partisan and desperate" and that if someone takes a defeat for granted it is the President of the Government, Aragonès pointed out, but "in the face of the ultra threat, the independence movement is the best containment dam to the right and the extreme right”, remarked the republican Josep Maria Jové.
With the commons it seems difficult to understand, especially after Jéssica Albiach reproached him for his return to understanding with Junts. "With Junts, not even around the corner," remarked the leader. And with the PSC the impossibility of an agreement was made clear when Aragonès reproached them for having facilitated the investiture of Mariano Rajoy in 2016: "They cannot be presented as a guarantee on July 23," Aragonès concluded.
