The first round of the fight for control of Esquerra Republicana was won by the current leadership and lost by the candidacy of Oriol Junquerasformer party president who aspires to regain his position. It was learned today that the ERC Guarantees Commission approved that the party congress be held on November 30, as decided by the leadership, thus excluding the possibility of advancing this date, since up to a third of the party members had requested the National Council and was promoted by the candidacy of Junqueras. According to ‘Nació Digital’, the report states that the agreements reached by the party leadership do not contradict the regulations and are valid.
After the election result and the wave of resignations –Marta Rovira and Father Aragonès announced that he would not run in the elections, while Junqueras resigned to announce his return – the party agreed to hold the congress on 30 November, a very late date but adopted in anticipation of a new election in Catalonia when the summer returned. This ultimately did not happen when the investiture of Salvador Illa was accepted, and the pro-Junqueras sector therefore considered that it was no longer justified to wait until the end of November. Your claims will be rejected.
Yesterday on TV3, the current secretary general of the party, Marta Rovira, explained that the November date had “full legal security” and recalled that the national executive had chosen this date “with much consensus“Junqueras was still president, then the party’s national council ratified it.
On the other hand, and independently of the Congress process, the Secretary General of the ERC reiterated yesterday that the ERC will not enter the government of Salvador Illa, and asked to activate the committee to follow up on the agreement with the CPS and “start planning what are the first steps”. Since the Catalan Socialists It was also considered appropriate to activate said committee. Rovira justified this because a large part of the ERC militants doubt that the socialists will respect the investiture agreement, and added that it is “impossible to enter the government when there is this feeling.”
In terms of financing, Rovira, who avoided talking about quotas, argued that the agreement represents progress towards fiscal sovereignty and demanded its implementation. “Let’s stop discussing an agreement known to all, that we have been publishing from the beginning, on the fact that there is no small print, that there are no hidden things. Here it ends tax plunder“, he said in statements collected by Ep. Rovira assured that after losing the pro-independence majority in the Catalan elections, the Republicans decided to turn it into an opportunity – literally – and said that “new elections would have been worse for everyone, because in a repeat of the elections, the pro-independence movement would have suffered more and would most likely have given wings to the extreme right.”
He explained that ERC took advantage of this context to “condition the situation” from the point of view of independence, with a claim, according to her, historical of the independence movement such as the economic agreement and fiscal sovereignty, according to her terms.
The secretary general of the Republicans explained that it was “quite difficult” to renew dialogue with Junts, the party she called to support the agreement: “Junts will have to answer on which side of the table they want to sit, if on the side of the table where Vox, PP and some other parties are located. socialist barons attack this agreement and this unique financing, this economic concert for Catalonia or if you want to sit next to Catalonia.
