An agreement without a photo, without party logos and signed with two different pens. An agreement that repeats three times the existence of deep or structural discrepancies. Santos Cerdán and Jordi Turull sealed the document that gave the go ahead to Pedro Sánchez's investiture away from the cameras, in the hotel where the PSOE's organizing secretary had been staying for days, while Carles Puigdemont waited in Parliament european There was no party at Waterloo. "This is not about photos and celebrations. And it goes beyond parties and partisanship", they point out to Junts. Puigdemont has always placed his figure outside organic corsets. The ex-president has not only led this negotiation on the sidelines of the Junts executive, but has put himself at the head of those that come with the seven deputies of his party voting in Congress for the management of the interim.
The coldness of the stage design of the PSOE-Junts agreement contrasts with the snapshot of Oriol Junqueras with Félix Bolaños or the deference of Pedro Sánchez with the president of the PNB, Andoni Ortuzar, whom he places as a premium partner. However, you can't hide a certain cordiality and respect between the interlocutors after months of silent work and downtime to replenish the toothpaste. Puigdemont and his people are "satisfied" and "hopeful", but the sale of the "framework agreement" lowers initial expectations and sets aside triumphalism.
The "historic agreement" that Puigdemont claimed in September has remained a "historic opportunity", and the no-no in Congress four years ago has become a "responsibility". The former president conditions the continuity of the Spanish legislature not on agreements, but on "progress" in a negotiation between parties that is already supervised by an international mediator. What is being tested is the agreed mechanism for the resolution of the Catalan conflict, but Junts' leap from the intelligent confrontation to the negotiation table and its leading role in the parliamentary arithmetic allows the PSOE to shield its bet on "concord" and further isolate the right. The "reconciliation", which has been pending since the transition, has its epicenter in Madrid.
Together, he has counted more than three hundred times that the former president has called for negotiation during the six years that he has been installed in Waterloo and attributes his isolation from the past legislature to "vetos" attributed to ERC . "I was vetoed at the dialogue table", Turull said in RAC 1. Dialogue and negotiation, even proposing a referendum in accordance with Article 92 of the Constitution, is now the frontispiece of the pact " without resignations", according to Junts and, for this reason, he leaves a written reference of all the disagreements that must come with the PSOE. The validity of a table of governments and two of parties with monthly meetings for Junts and "periodicals" for ERC must be seen. The confluence of negotiations - mediators included - is not ruled out, although in the pro-independence competition, no one accepts, for now, to adapt to the rhythms of the electoral opponent.
At ERC they breathe with a certain relief. Republicans waited, not without tension, for the final result of the joint negotiations. With the document in hand, there were those who asked: "Isn't there an annex?". Now they are reviewing the two sections of the amnesty law that have undergone modifications since they closed their pact with the PSOE following Junts' insistence on reviewing the legislation and the Tsunami lawsuit. ERC maintains that "the mambo is over" in Junts, that having the post-convergents sitting at a negotiating table forces them to build bridges, even though Puigdemont's manifest hostility to the Republicans' strategy persists: "The in exchange for nothing it has gone to the dustbin of history", "we have lost four fundamental years"... Puigdemont's line of communication with Pere Aragonès is weak, but remains open. ERC trusts to close the budgets of the Generalitat with the PSC, not with Junts, and no internal poll shows a viable pro-independence majority after the Catalan elections that would force a reconciliation. Not even with the papal blessing received this week in the Vatican.
