Pere Aragonès had spent a few days with a low profile in terms of communication after the elections of 23-J. But in today's control session Aragonès has invited JxCAT to work together to negotiate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “Your seven deputies are as valuable as ours,” reflected the Catalan president after a question from the JxCAT spokesman, Albert Batet, who had previously asked him for unity and to abandon the policy of false dialogues.
“There are 14 Catalan deputies that we can work along this line”, highlighted Pere Aragonès during the control session. “We have 14 deputies who are decisive. What you have is just as decisive as ours.. And they will only be decisive if the 14 act jointly”, replied Aragonès, who added that he hoped that the seed of a future joint strategy would emerge from this plenary session.
Pere Aragonès has avoided reproaching both JxCAT and the CUP. In the opinion of Aragones “the message of the electoral results is that we have to understand each other to take advantage of the opportunity. Political conflicts are resolved from politics. If we start a dynamic that sounds reproachful, everything will be much more difficult. I won't mention anything that could be a problem for this lens. Catalonia has an opportunity. We have to take advantage and work together”. Batet had reproached Aragonès for the ERC pacts with the PSC to enter the Barcelona Provincial Council.
The Catalan president reflected that “weeks of work, negotiations and also courage are ahead. And the one who has to show political courage is the person who has the possibility of being president of the Spanish Government. It is time for Pedro Sánchez to make proposals ”. This same request for courage, but in a more vague way, was also conveyed by Aragonès to Salvador Illa, the leader of the PSC.
Pere Aragonès affirmed in the Catalan Chamber that “the Government of Catalonia will continue to work in favor of independence and on the path to independence”, but without further details.
In the opinion of Albert Batet, the results of the general elections represent an opportunity that we will not shy away from, an opportunity to unblock the political conflict in Catalonia. We will be faithful to our commitments. We will not make an agreement in secret, like you in the Diputación de Barcelona. We are presenting ourselves to obtain the freedom of Catalonia, not to save the Spanish State”, warned Batet.
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On the other hand, Pere Aragonès accepted that the results of the independence movement and the ERC were bad in the last elections of 23-J but he also highlighted that one of the possible readings is that “I feel very proud of a country that has blocked the way to the right and the extreme right. And it has stopped it with a clear result in Catalonia”, Aragonès answered
On the loss of 700,000 votes by the independence movement, “by the independence movement, the results are bad, they are not what we would like and we will work to improve. But the confidence received will be to fight against the ultra-right and also to move towards self-determination”, Aragonès has valued.
“I think that from now on what we should do is add the two messages that there have been: we must work to stop the right and the ultra-right and also to stop the underlying conflict between Catalonia and the State. Catalonia is the one that has stopped the extreme right and that is the central question ”.