He president of the Generalitat and ERC candidate to revalidate his mandate, Pere Aragonestrusts the undecided to increase the results that the polls give to his party in the Catalan elections and believes that he is the only candidate focused on putting clear proposals on the table for the autonomous community.
“If it were up to the polls, today Alberto Núñez Feijóo he would be president of the Government. There are days ahead in which many people who have not yet decided on ERC are going to do so. We are the only force that can bring together the vote of the left“, Aragonès said in an interview with Cadena Ser.
And it is that, for him president, the PSC of Salvador Illawho according to the polls will win the elections but without the possibility of governing alone, “It is the least Catalan and the one that is furthest to the right in its history“. Thus, asked about the possibility of a possible repetition of a possible Tinell Pact (signed in 2003 and the seed of the tripartite Government with Pasqual Maragall at the head), Aragonès stated that “This PSC is very far from the Maragall PSCwhich was a Catalan party that defended self-government and the Catalan language.
To finish clarifying that ERC does not currently manage a scenario in which it has to lend its support to anyone, the president of the Generalitat has blurted out: “We do not present ourselves with a vocation as a crutch. “We have 93 years of history and we are running to govern.”
Possible damage due to negotiations with the Government
Analyzing the reason why ERC is positioned as the third force in the elections behind PSC and Junts, Pere Aragonès has avoided referring directly to a possible damage for having become a preferred partner of the central government during the last legislature.
However, he admitted that “whoever leads the way usually encounters more difficulties“, in reference to the negotiating attitude that his party has had in the last three years, for which he has congratulated himself on “democratically resolving problems and differences” that led, for example, to the “pardons” to the leaders of the processes. “Difficulties are welcome if they serve to improve the life of Catalonia,” she stated.
In this way, it has established ERC as the most reliable training and the only one that is presented “with the accreditation of the work done.” “Junts used to talk about confrontation, today about negotiation and tomorrow we don’t know what they will doand Salvador Illa cannot lead a negotiation stage (with the central government) because they represent the same political project,” he noted.
In any case, Aragonès has only flatly refused to enter a Government in which Aliança Catalana is included: “Aliança is not pro-independence, they may say so but they work against independence. With the extreme right, nothing, whether they have the Spanish flag or want to wear the estelada“.
“The duster has been seen”
He president of the Generalitat has also referred again to the already famous five days of reflection that the head of the central Executive, Pedro Sanchezwas taken almost two weeks ago.
“I believe that we have witnessed a political maneuver with which the duster has been seen. “He has tried to use empathy after the attacks that we can all suffer from the extreme right for personal benefit,” she stated.
For Aragonès, the prime objective of the President of the Government was “not to talk about the Koldo case” and Sánchez’s maneuver does not make him come out stronger, but rather “creates more uncertainty“. “What happens with this is that when you have an agreement (in reference to the one signed by ERC and the PSOE before investing Sánchez), if you see uncertainty you are going to ask for things to be fulfilled faster. Today we cannot say when the legislature will end in Spain because the one who has generated uncertainty has been Sánchez”, stated the president.
