“After the conversation with Puigdemont I am convinced that there will be a progressive government”

2023-09-06 19:29:59

Yolanda Díaz is convinced that they will be able to repeat a progressive coalition government with the Socialist Party. On Monday she went to Brussels to meet there with Carles Puigdemont, unofficial leader of Junts, a key formation for Pedro Sánchez to overcome a future investiture. And after that meeting, she sees that possibility closer, as she has transferred this Wednesday in a forum of the Democratic Party in Italy. “After the conversation with Mr. Puigdemont, I am convinced that there will be a progressive government in Spain”, she has stated.

Brussels, epicenter of the investiture

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Last Monday the two met in Brussels, in a meeting that was announced shortly before it was to be held and which was also attended by the leader of the communes Jaume Asens and the MEP Toni Comín. After the meeting, the two parties did not give many details about the talks but released a statement in which they expressed an agreement to “explore all democratic solutions to unblock the political conflict.”

Although several people from the second vice president’s hard core have conveyed Sumar’s feelings after that meeting, such as the spokespersons Ernest Urtasun and Marta Lois or Asens himself, Díaz had not ruled on the meeting until now.

Asked about this issue in a meeting with the Italian deputies Elly Schlein and Andrea Orlando, the leader of Sumar has been convinced that there will be a “progressive government”. “We have to see Catalonia not as a problem but as a real opportunity. As a diverse country, with different cultures, ways of doing politics. All this wealth makes us better. I think that we are going to have a progressive government in my country, ”she has maintained.

Díaz believes that an agreement with the partners of the previous legislature to which they must now add Junts goes in the direction of what the citizens have voted for. “They have voted to continue winning rights, to continue advancing in labor and economic rights, to continue fighting against climate change, advancing in the rights of women, in feminism, of LGTBI people. And they have said that they want a diverse Spain”, he said to remember that this Wednesday both his formation and the PSOE and nationalist forces in Congress have registered the reform so that deputies can use the official languages ​​in all areas of the Chamber Low.

Díaz’s meeting with Puigdemont occurred just one day before the Catalan ex-president publicly exposed the demands of his formation in exchange for giving his support to a future investiture by Sánchez. In a press conference in the European Parliament, he demanded an amnesty law and a “rapporteur” as a prior step to negotiate that support for a progressive coalition government.

The former president warned that certain “preconditions” must be established to start the negotiation: “recognize the legitimacy of the independence movement”, the “abandonment of the judicial route” and amnesty; a rapporteur to mediate and verify the agreements, and the promotion of Catalan in the European Union. All these conditions, he assured, fit into the Constitution and can be carried out before the vote on the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.

Asens: “The amnesty is the condition for the investiture”

This morning, Asens has ruled out that an amnesty law is a “precondition” to start talking about the investiture, but rather that it is the condition for that vote to go ahead. Asens acts as a link between Spanish politics and Waterloo thanks to his good relationship with Puigdemont and his people. This morning in the Onda Cero microphones He has insisted that “the center of the agreement goes through the amnesty.”

“The investiture depends on that. Later he accompanied it with other reflections, but in any negotiation you start from a position of maximums and then one softens your positions and I think that there is a will in the case of Puigdemont to bring positions closer”, he said in an interview in which he has shown more problems about the figure of the rapporteur that Junts put on the table. “When talking about a rapporteur, that seems to me to be typical of armed conflicts or peace processes. I think there are other formulas,” Asens said to criticize that this figure “would lengthen a lot” a negotiation process between parties and not “between governments.”