Barely 300 meters physically separate the Junts and PSOE teams, which have taken positions in Brussels while negotiating the details of an agreement that is close but, however, is resisting, according to sources from both parties.
Both parties continue to exchange documents from the Sofitel Hotel on Place Jourdan, where the socialist negotiator, Santos Cerdán, has been since yesterday, and the Brussels Press Club, the place chosen by the post-convergent team, led by the general secretary of the party. , Jordi Turull, and the president of his group in the Parliament, Albert Batet, as La Vanguardia has been able to directly verify. Twenty minutes after the publication of this news, the Junts team has left the premises and dispersed into several groups. Among the people who left the press center was not, however, Carles Puigdemont.
"It could be today, it could be tomorrow, we don't know...", Junts per Catalunya sources comment at the international press center, located on rue Froissart. The private facilities are an important place for the European aspect of the process, as it is the same space where Carles Puigdemont and several of his councilors gave their first major press conference when they arrived in the community capital at the end of October 2017. .
Inside the Press Club, the Junts teams were distributed in several rooms, including a 'fish tank', a soundproof space where Turull and Míriam Nogueras, the spokesperson for JxCat in the Congress of Deputies, talked with headphones on, according to reports. This correspondent was able to see it, before being ordered to leave the space by the party's spokesperson in Brussels, waiting for progress and news.
Cerdán, for his part, returned to Brussels yesterday and settled in the Sofitel Hotel in the European quarter, an establishment where the heads of State and Government of the European Union often stay during summits. The political agreement has been closed for several days and what remains are technical details necessary to fine-tune the content of the amnesty law as much as possible, socialist sources insist. "You cannot make a closing forecast when you are so close" to the agreement, they add. Physically, there is no doubt, they are.
