In the PSC and En Comú Podemo, crosses are made before the "mistake" that in their opinion the president of the Generalitat has made, with his message from the Palau de la Generalitat to assess the results of the elections last Sunday. They believe that the call for independence unity launched by Pere Aragonès in the face of the possible rise of the right and the extreme right constitutes a "desperate" alarm that "takes for granted the defeat" of the left in the elections called for July 23. "We went out to win," both parties agree.
The main left-wing parties in Catalonia also agree that the "ridiculousness" of launching a claim from Palau that has therefore already been ruled out by the other majority independence party, Junts, and even by the formation of the president himself, and even having hinted at the possibility that the post-convergents could return in some way to contribute to the stability of the current ERC minority Executive
The Socialists refer to the words this Tuesday of the deputy general secretary and ERC spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, ruling out a unitary pro-independence list for the general elections, and to what was expressed by former president Puigdemont via Twitter, admitting the offer if it is to establish "a shared strategy, but for independence", but "for other things you don't need to waste time".
"It generates an expectation that cannot be fulfilled", they maintain in the PSC, and "it is not the answer that we have to give before the July elections", and this, "using the presidency of the Generalitat", they denounce. The commons also see the ERC Government as “very lost”, whose president on Tuesday proposed “a flight into the past” with “a new twist with Junts”. The purple formation affects precisely that the plebiscite that these elections raise are between the left and the right, so that this places Junts in the second camp. In addition, re-proposing an understanding with who has been putting sticks in the wheel" in the normalization process of Catalonia after the process "does not make sense."
Aragonès's message shows, for the PSC, that ERC has a problem not only of narrative but also of leadership: "They have two leaders (Oriol Junqueras and Pere Aragonès) who do not speak and who are in conflict," they say, and thus explain that the president has raised something that his party has rejected beforehand.
Before the elections of 23-J, the Catalan socialists have set very high expectations. Argued by the results of the elections on Sunday and the loss of almost 300,000 votes by the Republicans, the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has set himself to increase the difference to 15 seats for his party with respect to the PP in Catalonia. At present, the difference is 10 (12 from the PSC and 2 from the PP).
Catalonia has become the main source of socialist votes in the 28-M elections after the poor results of the PSOE in the rest of Spain and Illa is confident of maintaining the line of results in July, not in vain in Catalonia 48 are elected of the 350 deputies of Congress. For this reason, the PSC leader calls for concentrating the left-wing Catalan vote in his party, because "the fight is between the two of us", he has summarized in RAC1, referring to PSOE and PP. "The threat is serious," warn socialist sources who consider that voting for ERC or Junts in July is "distracting the vote."
For their part, the commons see Aragonès in “a loop”. Despite the good harmony between the president and the leader of the purple formation in Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, they assure that she was not previously informed of Aragonès's intentions in her message on Tuesday and consider that the president is wrong projecting the image that the right will win because "defeat demobilizes."
The purple formation is experiencing difficult moments after the crash of the mayor Ada Caolau in Barcelona, but the general elections give them the opportunity to quickly change the third. Here they place all their hopes in the second vice president Yolanda Díaz and guarantee that there will be an agreement between Sumar and Podemos to form a joint candidacy although time - ten days - is pressing. With Yolanda Díaz as a candidate, "we are better armed," they say, because she "is competitive both in Catalonia and in the rest of the State," they say, although this has not been the case in the municipal elections.
