Bolaños tries to attract ERC and Junts: "I understand the maximalist positions, but it would not be understood if they stayed there"

“Discretion”. This is the word that all the leaders of the PSOE repeat almost like a mantra to refer to the conversations with the parties that could support a new investiture of Pedro Sánchez. Even so, from the direction of Ferraz they have sent a message this Thursday implicitly addressed to ERC and Junts, which demand in exchange for their support self-determination for Catalonia and amnesty for those convicted of the illegal referendum of 1-O.

“I understand that there may be political forces that start the negotiations with maximum, very maximalist positions, but I also tell you that what we have in hand is as important as the future of our country and that it would not be understood that these political forces would remain in positions of maximums, let's say, without making any kind of movement”, stressed Félix Bolaños, acting Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, during a visit to the works of the Murcia-Almería high-speed line, in the Pulpí-Vera section.

The also member of the Federal Executive of the Socialists is trying to convince the pro-independence formations, which have displayed a catalog of petitions that do not fit into current legislation as a price for their votes, to reconsider.. In this sense, he has stressed that “the essential thing” is that it is possible to “continue to speak calmly” and that any agreement reached be “a point of balance, where all parties feel comfortable, of course within the law, within the Constitution, that means that Spain continues advancing”.

17 of August

The first litmus test on the rapprochement of positions proposed by Bolaños will be next August 17, which is when the Congress Table is constituted.. The negotiation of positions in this key body for the functioning of the institution also usually leaves clear clues about the support that the candidate for the investiture could have later, for which no date has yet been set..

Regarding the vacations of Sánchez and his family in Morocco, the Minister of the Presidency has indicated that they are “a strictly personal matter” about which he has “nothing to say”, reports Europa Press. However, he has added that he does have “something to say to the propagators of hoaxes”: “They have to assume their sad fate, because they are not the majority in this country, nor do they condition anyone's life”.