The policy of alliances after the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia takes center stage when we reach the halfway point of the 12-M campaign. This Thursday the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, did not close the door to agreeing with Junts on a “transversal” government and the common people have reacted to criticize the socialist's words.
“The progressive electorate must know that voting for Salvador Illa can serve to reach an agreement with the right,” said the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, from Tarragona. For Sumar's spokesperson, the future of Catalonia depends on a "great agreement on the left." That is why he has urged Illa to choose “between the commons and Junts, between left and right.”
Comunes Sumar has been putting on the table for days that Junts is the reformulation of the old Convergència, taking advantage of the support of former presidents Jordi Pujol and Artur Mas for the candidacy headed by Carles Puigdemont. “To agree with Junts is to agree with Pujolism, with those who do not want fair taxation, nor to reinforce public services,” Urtasun said in a press conference in the Plaza del Fòrum, where a wall from the Roman era is preserved. And that is what they want to build, a wall that separates Junts from the Government.
But the PSC is betting on infrastructure projects that Comunes Sumar rejects, such as the expansion of the El Prat airport, the Hard Rock casino in Tarragona or the expansion of the fourth beltway. “With the commons and Jéssica Albiach in the Government they will not expand,” Urtasun has promised. “The Catalonia of the future cannot look to the developmentalism of the 90s,” he has argued.
The truth is that in the face of possible post-electoral pacts, the candidacy headed by Jéssica Albiach has been clear from the beginning of the pre-campaign: they close the door to any pact with Junts, Vox and Aliança Catalana; leaving the door open to agreements with the PSC, ERC and the CUP.
