Ciudadanos is optimistic about the possibility that the Parliament of Catalonia will approve a declaration of support for Israel, for which it has been working intensively in recent days with the aim that it can be read at some point during the plenary session that begins. today and lasts until next Thursday.
This was announced this afternoon by her spokesperson in the Chamber, Anna Grau, who thanked Junts for their efforts to make this initiative bear fruit and expressed hope that the socialists would also subscribe to the declaration, which would thus have a sufficient majority. to move forward, although by not obtaining the consensus of all groups, it could not be considered institutional.
The document that is being negotiated, and which does not have the support of ERC, the Commons and the CUP, basically expresses, as Grau has advanced, the rejection of Hamas as a terrorist group and condemns the attack launched against the Israeli civilian population last year. October 7. "Israel has the right to exist and defend itself," the spokesperson declared in summary.
If the 32 deputies of Junts and the 33 of the PSC support it, the absolute majority that they would form with the six of Ciudadanos would make it possible to read it in plenary session, after passing through the meeting of spokespersons to approve its inclusion in the agenda.
Despite being a conflict that polarizes Spanish society, which has traditionally aligned itself with the Palestinian cause, Grau has defended that currently the "immense majority" of citizens does not agree with the "anti-Semitic discourse", which threatens Furthermore, against the democratic ideology of "universal coexistence and brotherhood."
"We know that there have been many attempts to break it," the spokesperson noted, however, given the impossibility of the agreement being unanimous. Thus, Grau would see it as an achievement that the declaration was "as representative as possible" and has defended that what he proposes is to give a "decent, dignified and justice-doing" response to the situation in Gaza and Israel.
On the other hand, the representative of Ciudadanos has advanced that she will ask for explanations from the control commission of the Catalan Corporation for Audiovisual Media (CCMA) on the information criteria of TV3 in the coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, as well as in reference to the attacks in shops run by Jews in Barcelona.
