The ERC executive decided to maintain the party’s national congress on November 30, the date initially scheduled, and ruled out bringing forward the conclave, as requested by the candidacy led by the former party president and candidate for re-election, Oriol Junqueras.
As the party stated in a statement, the leadership chose to ratify the date of November 30 as the date of the congress after receiving the report of the training guarantees commission. The opinion considered “fully valid and valid” the agreement of June that called the internal meeting that must decide between Junqueras and the alternative candidacy to preside over the party.
Junqueras’s relatives had asked to bring forward the congress, considering that, by statute, it should take place within three months of the resignation, on June 10, of the former president and candidate to revalidate his position.
The reformers, on the other hand, demanded that the date of November 30 be maintained. The list aimed at overthrowing the former vice president was presented last week, still without a leader and with few political divergences from the project that Junqueras and Marta Rovira have been leading for more than ten years, even though they demanded more internal democracy.
The executive considered that there was no reason to have a “political opportunity” to advance the congress, which, in any case, could only be brought forward by three weeks to meet the legal deadlines for convening.
The ERC meeting will be one of three internal party meetings that will take place this autumn and whose celebration coincides with an important moment for the government of Salvador Illa as well as for the government of Pedro Sánchez, such as the presentation and negotiation of the respective budgets. At the end of October, Junts will hold its congress, while the PSOE will also do so in November.
