Oriol Junqueras assured that ERC would not enter the Catalan government under the presidency of Salvador Illa this legislature, on the condition that he regains the leadership of the independence party and that he is nevertheless a privileged partner of the socialists of Barcelona and Madrid with whom he has signed investiture agreements and legislative agreements respectively. This is what Junqueras promised this Tuesday, during the presentation of the program of his candidacy, Militància Decidim, together with the candidate who aspires to the post of secretary general, Elisenda Alamany.
The former president of the ERC also declared that he would demand that the CPS respect the agreements reached for the inauguration of Illa: “If they do not respect them, it will be impossible for them to have our support in any field whatever”. In this sense, Junqueras insisted on a thesis that he has defended for years and which consists of positioning the ERC as “the best alternative” to the PSC. “We want to be a political force that plays a central role, that is a protagonist, that is the best alternative to the CPS, which at the moment is accumulating too much power in too many institutional areas,” he said, according to Ep .
Regarding the proposals of his candidacy to reconquer the presidency of the ERC, which will be played out during a congress on November 30, especially against an ‘official’ list which has the support, among others, Marta Rovira And Father Aragonès, He assured that they were not only looking to win the congress of a political formation that will have to “sew and sew again”, he recognized, but that it goes further, and indicated that the Militància Decidim program “aims at the activism of the ERC, but also at the rest of society.
Regarding the candidacy proposals of the Junqueras-Alamany tandem, the program includes, in relation to bad practices such as those of the cartels against the Maragall brothers and the structure parallel to the management, the creation of a truth commission composed of five activist experts in different fields to conclude in three months “who is responsible and apply appropriate sanctions”, if necessary. Likewise, for example, it is proposed to transform the National Council into a “genuine party parliament”.
Junqueras questioned the possibility that his candidacy would reach an agreement with the “rovirista” list, which he leads Xavier Godàs, The former president of the ERC assured that he was always available for all ERC activists. “All my desire to talk to everyone and all my desire to reach agreements with all the ERC activists. The best way to do this is with Congress,” he added, dismissing any real possibility of reaching an agreement that would force him to withdraw from his candidacy.
For its part, the Godàs candidacy, Nova Esquerra Nacional, announced that from today it was activating 100 “referent” people to organize around 500 events throughout the community before the congress. From the initiative it was clarified that among the people who will participate in these meetings are the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia Carme Forcadell, the former ERC leader Joan Puigcercos and former councilors of the Generalitat Dolors Bassa, Alba Vergés and Marta Cid. “We want to win by conviction and not by force,” assured Godàs.
