The ERC deputy in Congress Teresa Jordà would see it well for her party to give its votes for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez if there is a "commitment" and a "scheduling" by the acting president of the Government to approve an amnesty law, in instead of it being previously approved as required by the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, for whom Jordà has opened the door to joining the dialogue table with the Spanish Government at some point.
The republican leader explained this in an interview on the Cafè d'Idees program on La2 and Ràdio 4, in which she also recalled that her party has never renounced unilateralism and has viewed favorably the figure of the former president of the government José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero as a possible mediator in the negotiations, although he has doubted his objectivity.
The Republican deputy has indicated that if the amnesty is approved at the time of the investiture "oli en un llum" - a Catalan expression that could be translated as hand of a saint - but assuming that the deadlines are too short, she has recognized that what there should be is "political will" which, in his opinion, implies "a firm and signed commitment" and "a scheduling of this commitment." It is worth remembering at this point that Puigdemont, leader of Junts, in the conference he gave last week in Brussels asked for amnesty as a condition for negotiating the investiture.
Jordà has precisely been asked if Puigdemont should be able to be part of the dialogue table with the Spanish Executive, a possibility to which the deputy has opened the door, despite the fact that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, vetoed, tomorrow he will do two years, the presence of members of Junts who were not in the Government such as Jordi Turull or Jordi Sànchez, with which the post-convergents were left out of this forum. In response, Jordà settled with "we will understand each other, we are in another phase, on another step" after which he proceeded to defend the achievements of the dialogue table so far, to conclude that "now we go up one more step."
Jordà has been very conciliatory with Junts and has tried at all times to avoid reproaches, beyond reiterating the fact that they have felt very alone on the path to negotiation, as when in 2019 they demanded a mediator for the dialogue table , after which Pedro Sánchez called elections. "We do not renounce the mediator, but if we are left alone if no one helps us if we are the first to open the way...", she has excused herself to celebrate that Junts now sees this figure as necessary. In fact, asked if she sees a joint negotiating team as necessary, the deputy acknowledged that this "would be fantastic, wonderful, it would be the way forward." And she has insisted that coordination between Junts and ERC "would be optimal, because at the end of the day she would say that we ask for the same thing."
In this sense, the deputy recalled that the majority of the Diada's proclamations, aside from independence, called for "returning to strategic unity" which, in her opinion, "is complete, necessary and essential to achieve the objective." "Reproaches do not help, they demobilize," said Jordà, who for this reason has tarnished the speech of the president of the Catalan National Assembly, Dolors Feliu, because "they do not add up." "What the independence movement needs is unity and transversality," she diagnosed.
Regarding the mediator, Jordà welcomes the possibility that the PSOE would appoint former president Zapatero. "It doesn't seem like a bad idea to me despite it being art and part," said the Republican leader after remembering that he is a former socialist president, so "I don't know if he has sufficiently mature objectivity." In any case, Jordà has admitted that "given what we have seen, he seems like a relevant figure to me but I don't know if he is the right profile."
Perhaps by contrast, the pro-independence deputy has supported the Government in its criticism against José María Aznar, who yesterday encouraged a civic rebellion against the amnesty and the pacts of the PSOE with the independence movement. "They could perfectly be defined as coup statements," admitted Jordà, for whom "calling for this insurrection when we are talking about a possible and necessary amnesty law seems very inappropriate to a so-called democratic State of the 21st century."
Regarding contacts with the PP, the deputy explained that there was a call from a "prominent member" of the party to herself before closing the agreement on the constitution of the Congress table in case they would meet with Feijóo. "It happened to me personally," admitted Jordà, who on the other hand has maintained discretion about the conversations that have already taken place with the PSOE. In fact, he has attributed the turnaround of the Socialists and Sánchez on the amnesty to the fact that they need the votes of Junts and ERC.
