The Vice President of the Government, Jordi Puigneró, has assured that he will ask for "explanations" from the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, about the meeting with the head of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, which is scheduled to take place before the summer holidays.
The meeting between the two presidents is one of the agreements reached by the minister Laura Vilagrà and the minister Félix Bolaños in the meeting they had yesterday in Moncloa. "I will request the pertinent explanations from the Aragonese president about the meeting with Sánchez because we do not have any information, we only know that it will take place but we do not know when or the agenda," Puigneró complained, adding that he found out about the meeting with presidents through the Vilagrà press conference.
On the other hand, the vice president has also appealed to the pro-independence deputies in Congress not to support the initiatives of the Spanish Government in the Chamber. "With the PSOE government, fewer meetings are necessary and more votes are lost in Congress, unfortunately it is the only dialogue that Sánchez understands," he explained.
Puigneró regretted that the meeting was held even though the Government announced in an act at the Palau de la Generalitat that relations with the Spanish Executive would be frozen until there were no "explanations and resignations" for the Catalangate. "I want to understand that this meeting has not served to start a thawing process with the State Government because there is no element that makes us see that relations should be thawed, on the contrary," he remarked.
In this sense, he pointed out that in the last month "not only have there been no explanations or resignations" but also "the offensive against Catalan has not been stopped" and the low level of compliance with State investments has been made public in Catalonia. "Good words are very good but they only react when they lose votes in Congress," he insisted.
Puigneró has remarked that if the meeting between Sánchez and Aragonès ends up being held, it should be used for explanations and resignations because "it cannot seem that relations are thawed with this type of meeting."
