Societat Civil Catalana urges PP and PSOE to seek an agreement outside of "nationalist blackmail"

Societat Civil Catalana (SCC) is not resigned to the fact that the pro-independence parties condition the government of Spain.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
31 July 2023 Monday 16:21
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Societat Civil Catalana urges PP and PSOE to seek an agreement outside of "nationalist blackmail"

Societat Civil Catalana (SCC) is not resigned to the fact that the pro-independence parties condition the government of Spain. In a statement issued this Tuesday, the constitutionalist entity urges the PP and PSOE to propose an alternative to the "nationalist blackmail" that, in their opinion, are imposing the formations that, singularly in the case of Junts, may have the key to governability after the results of July 23.

The entity chaired by Elda Mata recalls that the polls have left a scenario in Catalonia in which the nationalist parties have lost strength (Junts and ERC have 14 seats while the PSC has won 19 and the PP, six) and that it would be "paradoxical " that in such a situation his ability to influence would be "even increased" in the Congress of Deputies.

"Spain cannot be left in the hands of those who hate it," SCC maintains in its statement, for which reason it calls on "the big parties" to seek solutions, "with generosity and high vision," in order to form a stable government, which has the maximum support in parliament and which prioritizes the interests of citizens over those of partisans: "The vast majority of Spaniards voted in favor of focused and moderate political projects," the document analyzes.

"Negotiating governance, as has happened for decades, with those who boast of their plans to bankrupt the State and erode the institutions should not be an option. Cessions do not work with an ideology that contains the seeds of destruction," defends SCC , for whom the PP and PSOE should "face the negotiations in the coming weeks with a vocation for service" and, consequently, try to emulate the historic German grand coalition, unprecedented in Spain.

For SCC, ignoring that sovereignty has been widely surpassed by constitutionalist forces would be equivalent to once again leaving Catalans who feel Spanish and who have repeatedly opposed the independence of Catalonia "desamparados". "We ask the ruling class to focus on the State pacts, in Spain and in the Spanish people," the statement concluded, in order to avoid "political blockade and economic and social instability."

All in all, the entity, whose theses somehow evoke the statements expressed by the PP candidate for Barcelona, ​​Nacho Martín Blanco, who during the campaign defended a government led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo that distanced itself from the radicalism of Vox and "tended towards center", does not specify which formula he considers the most appropriate to make his proposal a reality.