Jordi Pujol advises Carles Puigdemont "not to fall into naivety" when negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez
Jordi Pujol, former president of the Generalitat and autonomous political figure with the most weight in the pacts of Catalan nationalism with the PSOE and PP governments of more than two decades ago, took the floor yesterday to issue a warning regarding the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez: “We have to ensure that Catalonia does not fall into naivety and be able to be demanding.”
In an interview published last night in ElNacional.cat, the historic leader of the defunct CiU expressed this generic message, without an explicit recipient, although the advice was logically directed to Junts, the party that today occupies the former space of Convergència Democràtica.
“We must ensure that they do not deceive us. With some things of the Majestic Pact (the agreement of the PP with CiU that allowed the investiture of José María Aznar in 1996), they did not deceive us, they have been done, and Spain acted in accordance with those criteria. But not all,” Pujol added.
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“This does not mean resorting to any type of violence, but the whole of Catalonia and the political forces must be capable of defending economic, social or environmental issues, but above all the identity of the country,” added the former president, who He also referred to the demand that the powers of the Cercanías railway service be transferred entirely to the Generalitat.. “What a mess! They should have been transferred a long time ago,” he reproached.
“He is right,” Puigdemont expressed this morning regarding the advice of the founder of Convergència and president of the Generalitat for 23 years. The former head of the Government has also pointed out that the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, “can never be a valid interlocutor to generate trust”, after the PSOE indicated yesterday that Sánchez will maintain “permanent contact” with the leader of the Catalan socialists during the negotiations with JxCat and Esquerra Republicana.
The MEP and post-convergent guide has thus joined the criticism of the general secretary of his party, Jordi Turull: “Giving prominence to whoever deceived Junts the day before the pact of shame in Barcelona to prevent Xavier Trias from being the mayor is a very strange way of showing us that they are trustworthy,” he noted in reference to the in extremis proclamation of the socialist Jaume Collboni as first mayor of the Catalan capital with the votes of the commons of Ada Colau and the PP of Daniel Sirera.