ERC and Junts are summoned to create "a common front" to negotiate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez

The results of 23-J have led to new calls for unity in the pro-independence ranks. The first control session of the Government in the Catalan Parliament after the general elections has had as a common thread the need for Pedro Sánchez to have all the votes of the secessionist forces in view of his re-election as president of the Government.

Esquerra Republicana and Junts per Catalunya have appealed this morning to form “a common front” to negotiate in Madrid, an aspiration that is by no means new and that, in the last four years, has not materialized due to the different sheets of the route towards independence that each of these two parties follows. Precisely, the unity of action in the Cortes Generales was one of the demands that JxCat placed on ERC days before breaking its government pact last October.

After admitting that the results of the independence movement “were not good”, but that they served to “stop the right and the extreme right”, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has summoned his former Cabinet partners to “work together”. in the negotiation with the PSOE. At the same time, the head of the Government has asked Sánchez for “political courage” and “courage” so that his proposals allow “advancing towards the resolution of the conflict between Catalonia and the State”.

The parliamentary leader of Junts, Albert Batet, has picked up the gauntlet and has assured that his party “will not shy away from this opportunity to unblock the conflict”. The post-convergent deputy, yes, wanted to make it clear that the hot potato is now in the hands of the socialist candidate.

Batet, however, has warned that they will be “faithful to their commitments” with their voters and that they will use “the position of strength” granted by the polls “to defend Catalonia and not to guarantee the governability of Spain.”

The president of JxCat in the autonomous Chamber has taken the opportunity to once again reproach Esquerra that his “false dialogue strategy has not worked”, but has shown his party's predisposition to design “a shared strategy in Madrid in defense of the right to self-determination “.

The PP offers itself to Illa

A different reading of the results of 23-J has been made by the president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández. The popular leader has summoned the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, to take advantage of a “historic opportunity to end the process”, since the independence forces “received less electoral support than ever.”

For this reason, Fernández advocates “taking away their influence in Madrid, instead of giving them back the key” to governance. This means that the Socialists allow Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as the winner of the elections on Sunday, to be sworn in as president.

The counterpart, he added, would go through “building a non-nationalist alternative in Catalonia” led by Illa, whom the PP would be willing to support after the next regional elections, scheduled for early 2025 if there is no progress.

Even so, the leader of the Catalan PP is not optimistic and fears that “constitutionalism will end up losing a great opportunity to achieve a non-nationalist government in Catalonia”. Fernández suspects that the PSC “will prefer to be held hostage by Sánchez so that he can use it as a bargaining chip with the independentistas in order to stay in power.”