"We will not have any kind of negotiation with Puigdemont." Alejandro Fernández has categorically rejected the option that Pedro Rollán, Deputy Secretary of Regional and Local Coordination of the PP, opened last Saturday by stating that the popular ones were willing to speak "with each and every one of the political formations, as long as they are within the framework of the Constitution".
The governability of Spain depends on the pacts that the PP and the PSOE can find, and in this framework Junts stands as the main protagonist. Thus, the PP, through its vice-secretary for Regional and Local Organization, did not rule out last Saturday starting talks with Puigdemont's party, placing its only veto on EH Bildu.
However, the leader of the popular of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, has "categorically" ruled out that his party can start negotiations "with Puigdemont." In interviews with Hoy por Hoy and Catalunya Ràdio, Fernández explained that Rollán's statement "was misinterpreted" and that the Junts leader "stands outside" the terms that they understand to be acceptable in a negotiation.
Fernández has also commented on the correspondence between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez about a possible meeting between the two. The leader of the PP in Catalonia believes that the acting President of the Government "received an institutional letter from a political leader and replied as a teenager on Twitter." "His response from him was what was expected of him," he added.
The popular leader has defended the request of the president of his party to Sánchez to govern the most voted list, and when asked about the PP pacts with Vox in some territories despite not being the first force, Fernández has appealed to a saying : "God said brothers but not cousins". "We have defended this rule but if everyone complies with it," he explained.
Fernández has encouraged Feijóo to "try" to form a government despite the fact that "it is very complicated." In addition, the Catalan leader has vindicated the results of his party in the last elections, by becoming the third force with the most votes and increasing four deputies from the two he obtained in 2019 and has warned that in a scenario of electoral repetition, the PP " would continue to grow."
Finally, the popular leader believes that "in the next regional elections it will be seen in each territory" whether or not it was a mistake to agree with Vox. "In Andalusia, when Vox was an investiture partner, it was said that the PP would disappear and then it obtained an absolute majority," he concluded.
