The secretary general of the ERC, Marta Rovira, warned the CPS on Saturday that if it does not respect what was agreed for the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat and there is “no resounding progress” on financing, “it will be practically impossible to enter into budget negotiations.”
In his speech at the last ordinary National Council of the Republicans, before the extraordinary congress in November that must elect the new leadership, Rovira said that if the PSC does not respect the agreements set out in the investiture pact, “we will reach the end of the road.”
“We will be able to move forward to the extent that the pact moves forward, that is what we did with the PSOE in those years, and we were able to start negotiating the investiture of Illa because the PSOE began to respect the agreements while waiting for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. And we must continue to apply the same logic,” he stressed.
Rovira acknowledged that part of the party “still does not see this pact clearly”, submitted to the vote of its bases in August, and assured that the leadership signed it “thinking of the citizens and Catalonia” and that it provided two important “keys”: that of the treasury and that of the nation, specified in the measures agreed for the defense of the Catalans.
“We will closely monitor this pact from the opposition, ERC will do absolute monitoring so that it is respected down to the last comma,” he assured, stressing that the financing, housing and transfer of Rodalies were essential priorities. “We will be in the opposition – he said – to maintain our position of strength and so that [el traspaso] “It doesn’t remain a piece of paper.”
He also thanked party officials for the “exemplary handover” of government they carried out, and recalled that ERC had asked senior officials to leave their positions and that it is awaiting the final dismissals.
