The waters return to their course between the partners of the Govern. After the verbal escalation in which it seemed that the differences between Junts and ERC over the national issue were irreconcilable, the postconvergents have begun to retrace the path they began after the executive in early September, where it was raised as a "real" possibility leave the Executive.
The general policy debate on Tuesday is no longer the deadline to "return to the path of independence" as ERC was required in the internal audit. This was expressed this week by the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, and the president of the formation, Laura Borràs, who now take time to finish seeing the fit of their formation within the Government.
The postconvergents hope that in the general policy debate, President Pere Aragonès will launch some promise linked to self-determination and to be able to agree on a resolution proposal on the national issue. A gesture that would allow him to freeze his departure from the Government and postpone a consultation between the bases that still does not have a calendar.
The possibility of breaking with ERC is still there –there are many voices within Junts who want it that way–, but this would be left in quarantine until the end of the year. It will be then when the postconvergents analyze the results of a dialogue table between the central government and ERC that has become one of the main differences with Esquerra.
The electoral calendar of 2023 complicates the possibility of advancing in the dejudicialization of the procés throughout the coming year, and both the post-convergent and the Republicans are aware of this. In fact, this has been expressed by the ERC Secretary General, Marta Rovira, who a few days ago considered that this autumn was key to making progress in this dialogue framework.
Until the end of the year, Junts are determined to maintain a strategy of confrontation with Esquerra within the Government. A path that they have started this September and in which the post-convergents are comfortable.
Inside the Government, Junts is blurred. They have a different country model than ERC, and this causes ongoing clashes. Therefore, they are determined to maintain their own profile, independent of their partner, and will make their own policies without waiting for an agreement with ERC. They consider that the Republicans act with arrogance, even if they are only separated by a deputy in Parliament. "Nobody in Educació asked us for permission for classes to start earlier this year," party sources refer.
For this reason, the ministers of Junts have begun to stand out without waiting for agreements with the Republicans and even without presenting their plans to the Consell de Govern. The position of the ministers of Junts, announcing their attendance at the demonstration organized by the ANC for the Diada immediately after Aragonès expressed his refusal to attend, is an example of this new policy of faits accomplis.
The trip of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Victòria Alsina to Israel and Palestine this week and the announcement of the opening of a delegation is also part of this strategy. Aragonès told Alsina that he did not agree with opening an office in Tel-Aviv, especially after the resolution approved by the Parliament in June in which the regime applied by Israel in the territories was considered an "apartheid crime". busy. Alsina, even so, announced his interest in inaugurating this delegation.
Another clear symptom of the new way of acting of Junts within the Government and that has caused friction with the Department of the Interior, chaired by Joan Ignasi Elena (ERC), is the presentation of a legislative change to prevent illegal occupations in neighborhood communities. The presentation was made by the ministers of Justice, Lourdes Ciuró, and Drets Socials, Violant Cervera, both from Junts. The proposal was not discussed in the Consell Executiu on Tuesdays and the announcement that entails the modification of articles of the Right to Housing Law and the Catalan Civil Code caused discomfort in the Interior.
This is only the beginning of the unilateralism that is coming from Junts within the Government.
