After the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, there are two months left for a possible re-election of Pedro Sánchez. The negotiation, for the moment, is going to start with noise: the Parliament of Catalonia has validated this Friday the resolution agreed between the groups of Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana in which the support of the pro-independence formations is conditioned on the investiture of the leader socialist to "work" the framework and conditions to hold a self-determination referendum.
The 65 votes in favor of ERC and Junts and the nine abstentions of the CUP have allowed the text to go ahead. The PSC, Vox, En Comú Podem, Ciudadanos and the PP have opposed it. They have added 54 against; The six Cs deputies have avoided voting for it. The non-independence right has called both the amnesty and the referendum "unconstitutional." "Amnesty and referendum. These are the conditions of the negotiation," replied Marta Vilalta, Esquerra spokesperson. In his thirteenth and in case there were any doubts. Mònica Sales, from Junts, celebrated the consensus with the Republicans without that preventing her from throwing a dart at the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès: "Move from the starting box, president. There is a lot to do."
The need for Congress to endorse an amnesty has also been approved in the Catalan Chamber, this time thanks to the favorable votes of the three pro-independence groups and the commons. The PSC has opposed this latest initiative. . His bet is that of "dialogue." In his opinion, it is the "only way to end the division." But where the socialists have frowned even more has been at the self-determination initiative, despite the fact that the text navigates in a certain lack of definition. Neither ERC nor Junts specify what they understand by "working" and at no time is the referendum related to the word independence.
In any case, the PSC's rejection is firm. The statement that he signed with the PSOE yesterday, just after learning of the agreement between republicans and post-convergents, already attested to this, although at no time was the word referendum mentioned. “Let's be clear. We will not take any steps on that path. It's a mistake. If it is necessary to go to elections again, we will return,” Salvador Illa concluded early in several media outlets. Without ambiguity and without leaving any loose ends. “Gesticulation cannot win over work and taking the right can never be the best option,” the spokesperson for the Catalan socialists, Alícia Romero, added shortly afterwards from the lectern of the Catalan Chamber. “Prudence and discretion.” She kept highlighting both words, aware that the game of Sánchez's investiture is being played in Madrid.
The common ones swim between two waters. They support the amnesty without any notable clarifications, but consider that making Sánchez's investiture conditional on setting the conditions for a referendum puts both the amnesty and re-election in danger. "It is irresponsible," warned Ernest Urtasun, spokesperson for Sumar. The key is not to give "a second chance to a PP and Vox government," added the spokesperson for the Commons, David Cid, from the Parliament. He has demanded "high-mindedness" from ERC and Junts, in this sense. Instead, he has applauded the amnesty: "" The Catalan in Congress is a victory. Catalan in Europe will be a victory. And the amnesty will be a victory. I tell you that clearly."
For its part, the CUP, whose participation has been necessary for the resolution regarding self-determination to go ahead, has warned that “amnesty and self-determination are inseparable” and has demanded that the amnesty also include people “retaliated for human rights.” social, civil and political", which is why, as Dolors Sabater has said, they should also benefit from "retaliation from the mobilizations for the right to housing, anti-fascism and feminism."
