The general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, defends that you have to talk to ERC before deciding if your party leaves the Government of the Generalitat once the audit commanded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Open Government, Victòria Alsina, and the vice president and spokesman for the formation, Josep Rius. The results of this examination of the first year of the Executive of Pere Aragonès will be known in the second phase of the JxCat congress, in mid-July, where it is also planned to define the paper and political strategy.
In an interview with Europa Press, the former Minister has recognized that there are issues that are being fulfilled and others are not in the government agreement, and asks to put everything in a balance before acting: "I want to have all the data, not by perceptions but by actions and facts, and from there make a decision. If you can redirect it, improve it and change it is an option. It should not be a direct red card". For this reason, he believes that it is necessary to "be able to talk" with ERC and rethink everything that they consider is not being fulfilled or does not work if the objective is to complete the independence process.
According to Turull, when they signed the investiture agreement there was a specific context that, a year later, has evolved with "a repression that has not stopped and in which, more and more crap comes out to eliminate" the actors of the independence movement. "Dialogue is an attitude, it cannot be a handbrake so that, as long as some are doing what they want and how they want, the others say that they are waiting for the dialogue table. This cannot work", he also stressed. former Minister, who has appealed to the independence movement to find a solution in this regard.
After warning that the dynamics of the coalition governments are not simple, he stated that what they will not do is "block Catalonia's ambitions at the service of the pacts", and added that Junts will not renounce independence.
When asked if he differs from the president of the party, Laura Borràs, on whether to leave the Government, he has reproached them for trying to seek confrontations, and to those who consider him pragmatic, he has replied: "I am a pragmatist. I had to make an announcement of the train tracks and I did it. I had to ensure that there was all the infrastructure so that everything would work on 1-O and I did it. did".
In the absence of a year for the municipal ones, Turull has also explained that they will prioritize pacts with the pro-independence forces, but "from here it is not only up to you because when you can have a clearly pro-independence government in Sant Cugat and there is someone who does not want to, does not want". "We will try", highlighted the general secretary of Junts, who has asked to take into account the weight that personal relationships have in municipal relationships, which may mean that in some small towns it is not possible or the configuration of a independence government.
In Barcelona, Turull has made it clear that they aspire to have "a clear and distinct pro-independence government", and has assured that in the previous municipal ones they put all kinds of facilities to make it happen, but it was not possible. After avoiding specifying if he sees this predisposition in the Catalan capital on the part of the ERC, he explained that in Junts they must prepare the best possible candidacy after the resignation of Elsa Artadi to be the mayor, a job that they want to close before the end of the month of July.
The president of Junts, Borràs, has also granted an interview, in her case to the Efe agency, in which she calls for "unity" within her formation and rejects the "speeches of punishment votes" towards certain members of the leadership of the party that she had proposed as the vice president of the formation, Aurora Madaula, or the organization secretary, David Torrents, who entered with the second chance. In this sense, Borràs has recalled that just before the congress she agreed with Turull on a joint candidacy for the leadership, and she has pointed out that it was not about opening a "competition" between different sectors of the party. "Precisely because it is a joint commitment and a unitary candidacy, these punishment or competition speeches are not understood. This could have occurred if there had been more than one list," she stressed. However, notable sectors of the militancy wanted to make her voice felt in this way since there was only one candidacy.
According to Borràs, "the explosion of joy that occurred when we reached an agreement to have a joint list must correspond to building trust" among all the members of the leadership. "If there are people who have bad faith, what I recommend is that they go to other sites, not that they continue in JxCat. At Junts, we want to work with all the good faith in the world to be able to move forward together and be useful to the citizens of the country" , has pointed out. Borràs has made a call to join forces internally: "From the moment we decided to go with a single candidacy, there is no competition. We are together, we call ourselves Junts and we want to move forward together towards our goals." Instead of talking about sectors or internal divisions in the party, she is in favor of "working to broaden and strengthen" the project, "not to make it small and weaken it."
Faced with those who see in JxCat a continuity of the space of the old Convergència, he has affirmed that the party must "look forward". "We have a lot of people who come from Convergència, just as there are people who come from Unió, from the PDECat, from the PSC, from ICV, from ERC, or from never being a member of any political party, as is my case. We are called Junts because we come from different places and we get together", he argued. For Borràs, "permanently resuscitating parties that are no longer part of the Catalan political scene is an absolutely useless exercise."
The also president of the Parliament also refuses to label her party as "neo-convergent" or "post-convergent" and prefers to define it simply as "independentist", although she also endorses the label "puigdemontista", because Puigdemont "will always be the founding president of JxCat".
