The post-electoral scenario that yesterday's recount shows, including the foreign vote, changes the expected roles on election night. If at first the abstention of Junts seemed enough for Pedro Sánchez to be invested again as president of the government with the bloc that supported him in the last legislature, the seat obtained at the last minute by the PP requires an affirmative vote of JxCat, although all this depends on what the deputy of the Canary Coalition does, who can tip the balance if she supports the PSOE candidate and that the Socialists once again have enough with the abstention of the post-convergents.
And in this new context, former president Carles Puigdemont, who now monopolizes all the focus and will have a decisive role in what happens in the coming months, warns that they will not give in to "pressure" or "political blackmail." "Whoever believes that exerting pressure or directly practicing political blackmail will obtain some tactical benefit, the effort can be avoided. At least in my case," the pro-independence leader pointed out this Saturday afternoon in a message posted on his Twitter account.
Likewise, Puigdemont, who has no organic position in Junts but is the most ascendant figure within the formation, calls for "discretion" and calls for "prudence". In this sense, he warns that it is not clear what the other formations will do and does not rule out that the elections are repeated or that the PSOE ends up facilitating its support for the PP.
"With the final results in hand, the position of Junts has been even more contrasted: either JxCat votes yes or the PSOE ends up facilitating the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo (or that of the candidate that the popular ones propose), or we are going to repeat of elections", assesses the former president of the Generalitat and MEP, expatriate in Belgium since the autumn of 2017. "In similar circumstances, they preferred to repeat the elections. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain discretion and exercise extreme prudence", he adds.
In fact, already this week the instruction in JxCat was not to rush and to wait carefully for the movements of the other actors. Let Sánchez be the one who proposes, they said in the formation of Jordi Turull. When it comes to setting their demands, the bar is in the transfer of powers to be able to organize a binding referendum and in the approval of an amnesty law for all those causes related to the procés, although the party there are those who would like a more possible negotiation after the PSOE has given a no for an answer to those demands.
On the other hand, the post-convergents have demanded from their former partner in the Government of the Generalitat, Esquerra Republicana, that they negotiate together the price of the investiture of Sánchez and that they articulate the common front in Madrid that they had been demanding since 2021. Both forces They have set out to work on it without reproach, despite mutual mistrust. Along these lines, the Republicans have taken a further step this Saturday by not ruling out that Junts could join the Catalan Executive again if there is a sovereignist front, but this scenario is conceived in the formation of Oriol Junqueras as long as there is a well-established agreement. locked with those of Turull.
