A small group of Junts per Catalunya leaders met this Friday with former president Carles Puigdemont in Catalunya del Nord to address the state of the negotiations on the investiture, according to the newspaper Ara and confirmed by La Vanguardia. The now MEP is no longer part of the party's leadership bodies – he left the presidency of the party in June 2022 – but he is the one who leads the negotiation with the socialists for the possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Unlike other parties, JxCat has not publicly appointed a negotiating commission, although some members of the leadership communicate with the former president in relation to this matter.
Little is known about the course of the negotiation by Junts at the moment. The training provides information in dribs and drabs and always refers to the same script, the one set by Puigdemont at the beginning of September, with the demand for a “historical commitment.”
In fact, it is the now MEP – who has been a journalist – who takes the reins of the negotiation and dispenses the information, also to his own. The only thing that transcends for now from the post-convergent ranks is that the agreement is not yet on track and in the party headquarters they work taking into account all the scenarios, the one that ends in an agreement and investiture, but also the one that leads to an electoral repetition. next month of January.
The amnesty is part of the negotiation, now openly, but there are also other tangible issues on the table. This week Puigdemont, in response to a few words from the former president of the government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, took the opportunity to once again demand a mediator or verifier to report on the agreements reached and ensure their compliance. To achieve this, Junts believes that the best would be an international figure and not a monitoring commission as the socialists proposed.
Be that as it may, unlike other actors involved in the negotiation, JxCat has opted for secrecy from day one and now, almost three months after the general elections were held, they confirm that this strategy – “prudence and silence” , they proclaim – it is working well for them and giving results.
The sources consulted compare his current situation with that experienced by his former partner in the Government of the Generalitat, Esquerra Republicana. The post-convergents believe that the Republicans “gesticulate” a lot now because they are disconcerted with the progress of the negotiations. It is in this context that they encompass the appearance of President Pere Aragonès in the Senate, the fact that they assured a few weeks ago that the amnesty was already taken for granted day in and day out, or the sudden hyperactivity of the Catalan Executive with the question of the official status of Catalan in Europe.
On October 24, the General Affairs Council of the European Union will meet for the second time to debate the possibility of making Catalan official in the community institutions and in the European Parliament. Although ERC had agreed on this issue with the coalition government at the dialogue table, it was not until this month of August when the mechanisms for this were activated after JxCat's pact with the PSOE for the Congress Table.
