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2023-11-09 13:45:06

Cerdán, on the referendum: “For the PSOE, the Constitution is the red line”

The Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, has stated, in his appearance to explain the political agreement of the legislature reached with Junts, that, with regard to the independence referendum proposed by the Catalan party, “the red line” of the socialists is the Constitution, which, in principle, does not allow such a consultation.

Asked if the two parties have spoken about the referendum in the negotiation of the pact announced this Thursday, he responded yes, and that Junts “knows what the PSOE’s position is.” “We, everything we do will be within the Constitution, that has been our red line and you know that whatever was said about the referendum, we have limited ourselves to the Constitution.”

In the pact, it is specifically stated that, in the future negotiation between the two, Junts “will propose the holding of a self-determination referendum on the political future of Catalonia protected by article 92 of the Constitution”, while the PSOE “will defend the broad development, through the appropriate legal mechanisms, of the 2006 Statute, as well as the full deployment and respect for the institutions of self-government and the institutional, cultural and linguistic uniqueness of Catalonia.