The president of the Parliament, Anna Erra, will meet this Thursday in the Parliament of Catalonia with the second secretary of the Bureau, Aurora Madaula, to address the latter's situation after the episodes of tension these days with a large part of the parliamentary group of Together for Catalonia and the party leadership. In Erra's environment, they point out that today there is no confidence in the leader of Junts, who came to the governing body of the Catalan Chamber at the hands of Laura Borràs, who also placed Madaula as vice-president of the party in the last congress.
The intention of the meeting, announced by the newspaper Ara and confirmed by this means, is to analyze the scenario and whether it is necessary for a decision to be made, since in reality the distrust is mutual between both leaders.
In the leadership of JxCat and in the post-convergent group there is a lot of discomfort with Madaula for the accusations he made on Friday of last week from the lectern of the chamber during the celebration of the Parlament de les Dones. Specifically, the sovereigntist leader accused her "comrades" in the party of "silent violence." After that, the group's internal chats were full of messages, as were social networks, where detractors and supporters of the leader have expressed themselves in recent hours.
"Sexist violence is wearing the lilac ribbon, demonstrating, while at the same moment you impose machismo in your organizations, institutions, work or family environments," said the JxCat deputy from the lectern. "Sexist violence is that they belittle your work, that they don't listen to you or that they modify your proposal without your opinion," she noted at another later moment, visibly excited. Likewise, she made reference to "parliamentary and media harassment", but in no case did she put names on the table. The fact that she made those accusations without evidence and without concreteness irritated her party colleagues.
According to sources consulted, Madaula exploded after being disavowed by management that same week. These sources point out that the party negotiated a text on the right to abortion in Andorra that was later rejected by the post-convergent group.
In any case, it is not the first time that a similar episode has happened and there have been other disagreements between the deputy, very close to Borràs, and the pragmatists of the party. In fact, at the Argelers congress, in June 2022, the current vice president of Junts was close to not obtaining the minimum necessary support from the militants and she then denounced a voting slogan against her within the pragmatic wing .
This Tuesday, in the Catalan Chamber, there was a meeting of the Junts group with the leadership and in recent days more than twenty deputies have signed a letter protesting the words of Madaula, who did not appear in Parliament yesterday although He did participate in a debate in the afternoon with members of other parties and sovereigntist entities. The meeting, which took place in the offices of JxCat, was attended by the party's general secretary, Jordi Turull, and the president of the party, Laura Borràs. The leaders close to the secretary general demand responsibilities, but the management's intention until now has been to let time pass and to ensure that the discomfort and internal noise do not get worse, as has already been done on other similar occasions, and to avoid the takeover. of hot decisions.
This episode has reopened the thunderclap between the two souls of the formation, which in recent months had put aside their differences during the negotiation with the PSOE, at least in public. There are leaders who reproach Madaula for using feminism in criticisms that, in their opinion, have to do with "political disagreements." Sources consulted also remember that the leader now questioned remained silent a year ago when she was in the eye of Hurricane Francesc de Dalmases after a fight with a TV3 journalist. Both are part of the nucleus closest to Borràs.
A meeting of the national council of the formation, the highest governing body between congresses, was scheduled for this Saturday, and there were councilors willing to demand that Madaula renounce her deputy credential and abandon her responsibilities both in the executive of the formation and in the Parliament. However, the parliamentary record is personal and non-transferable and only a voluntary resignation could have that effect. "It is the eternal fight to throw her out," summarized a member of the national council. "There is a lot of unrest but there is still nothing organized," said another.
However, the management announced on Monday that due to the lack of new elements to judge the agreement with the PSOE and the coincidence with the long weekend and Christmas preparations, said meeting was postponed until January 13. It should be taken into account that the same thing was done last year when the cause of controversy was the situation in Dalmases. Sources from the party, however, emphasize that the decision to postpone the meeting of the national council also has to do with the fact that a meeting of JxCat and PSOE is scheduled for Saturday in Geneva. It is the first of the negotiation forum with an international verifier that post-convergents and socialists agreed upon.
