"A new agreement between Junts and ERC to govern, which seems to me to be what Puigdemont proposes, implies mutually assured destruction for Catalonia and for Esquerra," warned the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, in statements in Herrera en Cope, to describe one of the possible scenarios that result from the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia on May 12.
The leader of the Catalan socialists recalled that both parties have co-governed in the last ten years, in which there have been up to four presidents (Artur Mas, Carles Puigdemont, Quim Torra and Pere Aragonès) and has pointed out that "the balance is very bad for Catalonia in terms of infrastructure, education, health, renewable energy".
For this reason, the PSC candidate has assured that "he will look for the best way to form a government with the greatest stability" and has added that he sees a government with Junts as very difficult. "My purpose is to articulate, as I have said, a government that is as stable as possible. That is my approach," he insisted.
Illa has responded to the Junts candidate, Carles Puigdemont, who this weekend warned in an interview of the consequences for the President of the Government of doing a Collboni, that is, preventing him from governing by combining the votes of the PSC and those common to those of the PPC after the elections. The socialist leader has warned the former president and Junts candidate that it is the PSC and not Pedro Sánchez who will negotiate the pacts to form the next government. "And with the interlocutors decided by the PSC," he added. In any case, he has said he does not share "this obsession on the part of other candidates to talk to find out what will happen on the 13th."
On the other hand, the first secretary of the PSC has rejected a Basque quota for Catalonia because "it does not have a constitutional fit and would generate more frustration." Given this, he proposes complying with the 2006 autonomy statute in terms of financing. "I propose that the Generalitat of Catalonia, when it is president, sits down to negotiate; it is the obligation of any president and any autonomous community," he noted.
