JxCAT continues without designating interlocutors to negotiate the investiture of Sánchez

While the rest of the formations are doing their homework, JxCAT continues without designating its interlocutors to negotiate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. Neither with the PSOE, nor with the ERC, which continues to cry out in the desert for uniting a position among the independentistas before going to present a position in Madrid. According to Junts sources, it is a way of saying, without saying it, that there is only one valid spokesperson on this issue: the former Catalan president and MEP Carles Puigdemont.

Puigdemont, from his vacations in the south of France and his Twitter account, only dedicates himself to torpedoing any trial balloon that arrives, both from the ERC and from the Socialists. Any initiative in favor of dialogue runs up against the wall of the founder of the party. The last blow has been against the proposal that Catalan can be spoken in Congress by changing the regulation: “At no point in the regulation does it say that there is an obligation to use Spanish, or the prohibition to use another official language. Therefore, the political will of the presidency is enough. And until now there has never been “.

The PSOE has delegated to the acting Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, to assemble the wickerwork of the investiture. Yolanda Díaz has done the same with Jaume Asens. And ERC has designated a team of interlocutors with which a futsal team could be integrated: Teresa Jordà, Gabriel Rufián, Senator Sara Bailac, the general secretary, Marta Rovira, the spokesperson Marta Vilalta, the former councilor Juli Fernàndez and the leader of the parliamentary group in Parliament, Josep Maria Jové. The absence of Turull, the silence of the formation and Puigdemont's tweets: the perfect recipe to derail the investiture in slow motion during the summer period.

Turull is the key man. It forms a bridge between Carles Puigdemont, the sector of Laura Borràs and the pragmatists made up of former councilors and mayors who see with concern the drift that the formation is taking, so far from Jordi Pujol, Artur Mas and the rest of the historical referents of the extinct Convergència.

Fill the gap

And the Turull vacuum is being filled on social networks by all the opponents of the investiture. Indeed, we agreed to amnesty and the right to self-determination. But that is not what you accepted when you allowed the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. That's why Laura Borràs voted no. Or Borràs herself, Torra's protégé, and president of JxCAT, retweeting criticism of articles by the top Republicans in the newspaper Ara saying that the current situation is an opportunity.

In JxCAT, they fear that ERC's loyalty is not with them, no matter how much from Pere Aragonès onwards everything is calls for unity with those of Carles Puigdemont, but with the Spanish left. In other words, Esquerra is more left than Catalan, for them, according to Junts sources. And, therefore, mistrust prevails.

no bridges

The relationship between Carles Puigdemont and the president of ERC is non-existent. they don't talk. And with Marta Rovira, the fugitive former president has not maintained any contact for more than a year, according to the founder of Junts himself..

In addition, half of ERC's approaches —talking about the transfer of commuters or improving financing— are described as treason by the people of JxCAT. The commitment of Junts in general, and of Puigdemont in particular, is ideological purity. And the only way to appear pure is to narrow the field. Raise only amnesty and referendum. Exactly what the Government, as Bolaños has warned, does not want to talk about. The independence formation, meanwhile, is managing its silence. They understand that this will still be long: Alberto Núñez Feijóo will have to present his candidacy first. The process will be slow and in JxCAT they are reserving.