ERC denounces that the repression of the State persists and that the labyrinth is the judicialization of politics in Catalonia
MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has asked the ERC to get out of the “labyrinth” and that now that he governs alone in Catalonia, take the opportunity to open a dialogue table like the one that the Executive currently has with the Government.
During the debate in the plenary session of the Senate, Sánchez claimed that the situation in “Catalonia in October 2022 is better than that of October 2017 and, consequently, Spain in 2022 is better than that of October 2017” and this has been “thanks to the effort of dialogue and reunion between the Catalan population” and between the Catalans and the whole of Spanish society.
“I would like them to come out of that labyrinth and that they wholeheartedly bet on that new time that Catalonia can open up, in Catalan politics” where Catalans who think differently and who “during the procés could not understand each other by the maximalist positions that the independence movement defended for a time”.
“There is an opportunity for that reunion”, he pointed out, assuring that the Government will always have its hand out to the new Government after the departure of Junts to “normalize and stabilize the situation in Catalonia”.
Likewise, she has also reproached the ERC spokeswoman, Mirella Cortés, for having used Catalan in the gallery to stage, according to her, the lack of democracy in Spain that prevents her from expressing herself in this language. The Government, Sánchez stressed, will never use “Spanish or Catalan as an element of confrontation, languages ??are there to unite”, while he has criticized him for trying to give him “lessons in democracy”.
Finally, the President of the Government has maintained that “it would be good” that now that the ERC governs “alone, it opened a dialogue table between the different political forces” in Catalonia, as the Executive has already done with the Government.
During her speech, the ERC senator Mirella Cortés proclaimed that the PSOE government “is not useful for Catalonia” if it does not keep its promises, summoning it to deploy “courageous” progressive policies and warning it that “when the left does not play the left , win the right and the fascists”.
He has also reproached the Chief Executive for boasting about deploying a social shield when he has launched a “bailout for the arms industry” in the current General Budgets, quantified at 24,000 million.
The republican parliamentarian told Sánchez that “it is not that difficult to comply with ERC” and accused the coalition government of failing to deliver on commitments, such as correcting the investment deficit in Catalonia or solving the “chaos” of the regional rail service.
Cortés has denounced that there is still “repression” by the State towards Catalonia and that if Spain were a “full democracy” criminal law would not be used against a “peaceful movement such as independence”, which has generated “political exiles” and 64 people spied on using Pegasus software. Moreover, he has told Sánchez that the real “labyrinth” is the “judicialization of politics” in Catalonia.
It has also reproached the chief executive for not daring to organize a referendum on monarchy or republic, the delay in repealing the ‘Gag’ Law, the delay in approving the Housing Law and not handing over Sareb’s homes to incorporate it into the public housing stock of the autonomous communities.
For his part, the spokesman for EH Bildu, Jon Elejabarrieta, has recognized that some of the measures adopted by the Government are “positive” but remain “pure patches if they are not accompanied by structural reforms that allow systemic problems to be solved permanently “. Sánchez has defended the Government has “a clear roadmap, with structural reforms that are not patches.”
Also, the Basque senator has invited the president to “break with the regime of 78 in all its expressions, economic, monarchy, military, media or judicial.” A regime, he has denounced, that “continues to deny recognition of Euskal Herria as a nation”, although Sánchez has not ruled on this issue in his reply.
