If the forms were those of football and not those of politics, Pere Aragonès would see himself today celebrating a goal with his arms outstretched, arrogant like Bellingham, and remembering that here he is and that this style of play his team had already proposed and practiced it. But the president does not like football and in order to confront the similarities he believes there are with Carles Puigdemont, he was expected by the media to ask him his opinion on the conditions of the former president to start negotiating an investiture. "Since I assumed the presidency, I made a clear commitment to political negotiation to resolve the conflict; today I celebrate the coincidence expressed by President Puigdemont in the objectives, which are the amnesty and the referendum, and in the tool, which is the negotiation", said the republican.
It was yesterday, during the press conference he gave in the Gothic gallery of the Palau de la Generalitat together with Xavier Espot, head of the Government of Andorra. Aragonès did not go further, but he did claim at Junts, after listening to Puigdemont's conference in Brussels, to coordinate with ERC to have "much more strength" and "multiply the effects" of the negotiation before a possible investiture of Pedro Sánchez. Because, according to the Republicans, there are so many coincidences.
The spokeswoman for the Government, Patrícia Plaja, in the morning, foreshadowed the words of Aragonès. "We celebrate that now Yes Together is opting for the path of negotiation that President Aragonès himself has defended since the first minute of the legislature", affirmed Plaja, with a not futile "now yes", which emphasizes the Junts' refusal to be part of the dialogue table between governments that Esquerra promoted during the last legislature.
In any case, it is clear that the battle to claim any success between ERC and Junts is in full swing, and the Government, through Plaja, reacted by vindicating itself.
"We fully share the stated objectives", stressed Plaja. He went so far as to say that the conditions and objectives listed by Puigdemont "are not only shared, but almost identical".
If it is now possible for the amnesty to be practically taken for granted, it is, according to the Government, thanks to the fact that the process "does not start from scratch, but is gradual". In other words, the ground has been paved with the explicit recognition by the PSOE Executive that there is a political conflict - sealed in the document creating the dialogue table - or the repeal of the crime of sedition. "Now the context allows one more step to be taken. It is a gradual process with which the Spanish Government must be dragged along", explained Plaja.
Two ERC representatives went to the Puigdemont conference: Teresa Jordà and Francesc-Marc Álvaro. The republican, like Aragonès, applauded Junts opening up to negotiate after four years of ERC doing it "alone" in Madrid.
The CUP was also represented in Brussels, through deputy Carles Riera. He cast doubt on whether the former president's proposal could lead to a resolution of the conflict and judged that a real scenario of negotiation with the Spanish Government can only be created if at the same time independenceism resumes mobilizations. At this point, Riera placed the Eleventh of September as the ideal date to start.
