They see in the independence votes “a lever of force” that they ask to know how to take advantage of
BARCELONA, July 31. (EUROPEAN PRESS) –
The ERC leadership has called on Junts in a joint letter to “join efforts” to negotiate with the PSOE an investiture for the Presidency of the Government and, thus, avoid electoral repetition and reach a good agreement for Catalonia.
The letter published in the newspaper ‘Ara’ this Monday, collected by Europa Press, was signed by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès; the republican president, Oriol Junqueras; the general secretary, Marta Rovira; and the candidate for Congress for Barcelona, ??Gabriel Rufián.
Also the spokesperson, Marta Vilalta; the president of the republican group in Parliament, Josep Maria Jové; number 2 on the list for Barcelona, ??Teresa Jordà; the senator for Lleida Sara Bailac and the deputy secretary Juli Fernández.
The signatories have once again demanded amnesty and self-determination and have advocated “responding to the needs of the people”, within which framework they have insisted on the full transfer of Rodalies and the reform of regional financing.
They have defended that “the negotiation with the State must continue” after vindicating the agreements reached at the dialogue table and measures such as the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), pensions or the ceiling on rents.
“The more we are, the more capacity we will have to negotiate things. If we all row in the same direction, we are much stronger,” they have maintained.
The Republicans have recalled that “the PSOE does not have any alternative majority”, which is why they see the fourteen pro-independence deputies in Congress as a lever that they have urged to take advantage of.
“The PSOE must be aware that if it wants to govern its country, it must respect ours”, they have warned, and they have crossed out an electoral repetition of being –literally– a second chance for the ultra-right.
Although they have defended that much remains to be done to address the political conflict, they have framed the pardons and the reform of the Criminal Code in their demand for independence: “In short, to reduce the repressive capacity for the moment in which we return to do”.
