For Esquerra, the possibility that Pedro Sánchez will be invested again is remote. Arithmetically speaking. "It is becoming more and more hypothetical," Gabriel Rufián said this afternoon at a press conference with Teresa Jordà, with whom he forms a tandem for the July 23 elections. Rufián has questioned whether the numbers will reach the general secretary of the PSOE, which would open up, in his opinion, a new scenario: that of a great coalition between the socialists and the PP to govern from the Moncloa palace . By boat soon, the reading of this statement would be that of an alert to the pro-independence electorate; A second reading is that of the need for those of Oriol Junqueras to combat the idea that the PSC is the useful vote against a popular government together with Vox.
"The key is not to give strength to the PSOE under the apparent useful vote to stop what it has to its right," said the Republican, because the socialists "if they can, they will agree with what it has to its right", since, In his opinion, the current president of the Government "will live much more comfortable in the media with a certain Feijóo as vice president, or the other way around, than with whom." "The key is to give strength to ERC and Bildu so that the PSOE is forced to agree with what it has on its left."
Thus, the ERC leader in Madrid recalled that "there is a scenario that is not talked about much". "There is talk of the quite probable PP-Vox pact, but not so much talk of the possible PP-PSOE or PSOE-PP pact," Rufián pointed out. He has reasoned that Sánchez, four years ago, had plan A to ally with Ciudadanos – when Albert Rivera led the orange formation. Only after the repetition of the general elections in 2019, Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias agreed to form a government. Rufián has argued that it has been the ERC and Bildu deputies in Congress who "have forced the PSOE to do things and agree with what it has to its left."
But in the "hypothetical" case that Sánchez can repeat the governance of the last four years, Esquerra is in favor of raising the price of the investiture. Until today, of the pro-independence formations that are presenting themselves in the general elections, only the CUP has made it clear that it requires a referendum with an established date. ERC hasn't gotten wet yet. Rufián has justified it: "If I detail it, it is very likely that other pro-independence formations will literally take ten minutes to say no." The reference to Junts is clear.
In any case, to raise these demands, ERC considers that it is first necessary to reach a consensus between the pro-independence parties and to do so in such a way that both Sánchez and Sumar -led by Yolanda Díaz- are forced to choose between "Catalonia or Vox". .
All these statements by Gabriel Rufián and Teresa Jordà have a framework. Both have been presented with a new motto on the lectern: "To protect Catalonia". "We will only invest it if it means defending Catalonia," Rufián said of Sánchez. It has been at this point when the Republican has been more complaining with Junts, despite the fact that he has avoided explicitly mentioning them. As he pointed out, in recent years ERC has felt alone when it comes to defending social policies and progress for Catalonia, while there were "people around eating pipes, with people who if you didn't score a goal would tell you that you were a botifler". "We want him to come down to the field with us, more than anything because many of those who comment on the play for forty years have also played" before, he highlighted.
Jordà has wanted to highlight the work of Esquerra in Madrid and has ensured that his formation does not hide or "has put itself in profile" before difficult decisions. "We have always shown our faces to force advances in social policies that improve people's day-to-day lives", he affirmed at the same time that he has asserted that ERC has achieved "the freedom of political prisoners and make the State sit down to negotiate self-determination. On this point, he has claimed the role played by the Republicans in granting pardons and reforming the Penal Code, which eliminated the crime of sedition.
