The announcement that the dialogue between the central government and the Generalitat will be reopened has been enough to open a new front between the two partners of the Executive chaired by Pere Aragonès.
The ministers and leaders of Junts came out yesterday in a storm to question the appointment and what is intended with it: to encourage a frozen negotiation between the two governments for months after the details of the espionage on independence leaders were known and, in particular, the president himself when he was not yet in office.
In Junts, moreover, it was especially painful to have learned from the media of the issues addressed during the meeting in Moncloa between the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagra, and Minister Félix Bolaños. This was denounced by the Vice President of the Government, Jordi Puigneró, and the Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró, who regretted that Aragonès had decided, in a "unilateral" way, to reprimand the dialogue with Sánchez without deserving it because, "not only have there been no explanations nor resignations” for the Catalangate, “but the offensive against the Catalan has not stopped either”.
The Catalan vice president promised to ask Aragonès for "explanations" about the planned meeting with Sánchez, and clearly showed his party's political commitment regarding the dialogue table: "With the PSOE, fewer meetings are necessary and more to make it lose votes in Congress" because "unfortunately it is the only dialogue that Sánchez understands."
The general secretary of the ERC, Marta Rovira, responded from Switzerland to Puigneró's words, assuring that Junts “had voted 60% in favor of the government's initiatives, while Esquerra 70%. “The ones that are different, I would say that Junts has not voted for them because they think they are too progressive,” she said.
Puigneró's statements came after an emergency meeting of the party's executive was held which, according to El Nacional, concluded without a concrete decision, but in which the criticism already launched by former president Carles Puigdemont through the social networks.
Puigdemont charged against the resumption of dialogue "without setting preconditions", and after accusing judges, police officers and journalists of hatching a plot against the independence movement, he lamented that the Republican part of the Government continued to bet on a dialogue that in his opinion "does not work You're welcome”, especially without there being unity in the independence movement.
ERC, through the Minister Vilagrà, and the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, also replied to the reproaches of Junts: "They vote us to be useful," said Vilagrà, who defended the new opportunity to find solutions to repression ”.
But Junts' criticism does not hide the internal tensions that this issue also generates for them. The party shows a polarization as a result of the political proposal approved in congress, which includes the possibility of leaving the Government after auditing the coalition pact with ERC.
With this new clash, the meeting that the ERC and JxCat staff held last Monday at the Casa dels Canonges seems to have been of little use, the first since the leadership changes at Junts.
