Catalan politics today enters a tunnel – electoral – from which it will emerge on May 12 with the task of forming a new executive, with a correlation of forces and a different parliamentary arithmetic, and Junts has already marked what its preferences are for negotiating. the day after. Those of Carles Puigdemont, if they are in a position to lead the government, plan to have the support of the pro-independence groups, although they are willing to address other issues of governability and laws with the rest of the political formations.
Puigdemont, from Strasbourg, yesterday reiterated his intention to negotiate with the independence movement and took the edge off the exchanges of reproaches that are being experienced these days between the parties of that political spectrum on the occasion of the pre-campaign. The leader of JxCat pointed out that “election campaign statements must be put into perspective.” “I will be more interested in speaking after the elections,” he added.
These days Puigdemont, Esquerra is spoiled by his calls for unity after the departure of Junts from the Government in October 2022 and the vote against the Catalan budgets. “It's normal, we have all surely done things that have not helped a unity that everyone asks of us,” concedes the still MEP after the reproaches of the ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras. However, the former president affirmed that after 12-M "maximum unity" is necessary to face the "limited situation that Catalonia is experiencing" and assured that he will count on ERC, although the post-convergents blame the Republican candidate, President Pere Aragonès. , “of the despondency that Catalonia is experiencing.”
The former president and post-convergent candidate on 12-M spoke to the media at the headquarters of the European Parliament, where the JxCat candidacy for the European elections on June 9 was presented, with Toni Comín as number one.
For that contest, Junts claims to be the only party of Catalan obedience. ERC is presented in coalition with EH Bildu, BNG and Més per Mallorca at the European event, in which there is a single constituency: for the distribution of seats, the total votes in Spain are taken into account instead of the provinces being the territory of reference, as in the general or regional ones.
“This is the purely Catalan candidacy, (...) of strictly Catalan obedience,” Puigdemont boasted. “It will be the only proposal completely independent of the interests of other parties outside Catalonia that Catalans will be able to vote on,” added the former president.
Comín, for his part, wanted to draw a thread of continuity with the JxCat project in the European institutions in recent years and assured that his action will be guided by the principles of "realism and courage."
