The president of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has responded to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who on Sunday assumed the risks of his "risky" plan for Catalonia at an event in Barcelona, stating that "those of us who assume risks are the ones who are willing to go to jail to defend democracy".
The republican leader gave this answer when asked about the words of the chief executive in an interview on the Cafè d'idees program (La 2, Ràdio 4), in which he described the disappearance of sedition from the Penal Code as " a step" in the commitment of the PSOE and the PSC to end the repression against the independence movement, a commitment that Esquerra demands to, for example, negotiate budgets in Catalonia and Madrid with the Socialists.
Although the State accounts are already on track -today the vetoes of the groups in the Senate will be rejected and the final green light will be given next year- the same is not the case with the Generalitat's budgets, which will not even pass this Tuesday through the table of the Consell Executiu as the Government still does not have a majority to bring them to fruition. One of the most likely partners for this are precisely the Socialists, who until a few weeks ago were vetoed by Junqueras himself.
"I have always said that the PSC had to go a long way to rectify", recalled the president of the Republicans to add that "the suppression of sedition is in that line". However, he has warned that the Catalan socialists fall "very short." "You walk very slowly in the right direction," he has opined.
Junqueras's words represent a new confirmation that Esquerra has already lifted the veto on the Socialists for the negotiation of the Catalan accounts, for which the Republicans "try to talk to everyone, even agents who are not strictly political." In this sense, the ERC leader has called on all the groups in the Chamber to support them. "If they have the support of all the social agents (workers, businessmen, the third sector, social and cultural entities) the whole world should approve them", he has insisted.
