The PSC does not currently plan to attend the meeting that President Pere Aragonès is calling to discuss the formulation of a clarity agreement that will lead to a referendum on the independence of Catalonia. Salvador Illa, first secretary of the Catalan socialists, has made it clear that his party "is not committed" to attending meetings that have as their background "dividing the Catalans".
The socialist leader therefore questions the representation of his party -the first force in Parliament- in the call that the president wants to make once the 28-M elections are held, to address the debate on the fit between Catalonia and Spain . Illa recalled that his proposal, made in Parliament, is the convening of a party table to jointly address this debate. A proposal that, according to him, the president has not taken into account. The first secretary qualified the considerations of the spokesperson, Alícia Romero, who has indicated that her formation, out of institutional respect, attends the calls of the president of the Generalitat.
Illa has made these considerations after the inauguration of the new government delegate in Catalonia, Carlos Prieto, and has indicated that the priority at this time is to work to address the consequences of the drought. Likewise, he stressed that Parliament must get to work at full capacity. He thus made reference to the situation that has been created around the sentence of the suspended president, Laura Borràs, and has indicated that it is the Chamber that has to resolve the situation, and not leave the solution in the hands of the Central Electoral Board (JEC).
In the line pointed out yesterday by the central government, the first socialist secretary has stressed that there will never be a referendum on self-determination supported by his party. With a long electoral period that opens this coming month of May and that has the general elections on the horizon, the PSC has wanted to distance itself from any political proposal that puts the debate on the right to self-determination back on the table.
