Without agreements and without progress, there will be no stability. This is the message from Junts to the government, which is now negotiating with the independence party after being forced to postpone treatment of the deficit pathwhose vote was scheduled for this Thursday, due to lack of support to move it forward. A path that Congress already reversed in July, precisely with the “no” of Junts, and which is insufficient for Carles Puigdemont’s party.
This was reiterated on Wednesday by his parliamentary spokesperson, Miriam Noguerasin an interview with ‘RNE’. “The path they proposed to us in July it’s not enough“It cannot be the 40 billion euros of which the State tells us that it will keep 35,000 and that 1,200 will be distributed to the autonomous communities. It is not possible,” he said.
The party, knowing that His seven assistants are essential to approve the deficit trajectory, insists that will not give “support in exchange for nothing”“The seven votes of the Junts are practically necessary for everything,” recalled Nogueras, who insisted that having supported the investiture of Pedro Sánchez does not imply guaranteeing the stability of his executive.
“In the same agreement [de investidura] it is said that stability will be linked to agreements that they be closed and that progress be made on these agreements. If there is no progress, there is no stability” said the pro-independence MP, who criticised that “the same people who signed this agreement seem to have taken a few months to understand that without progress, there is no stability.” “As they do not have a majority, If they need the votes of the Junts per Catalunya, they must negotiate with Junts,” he stressed.
Furthermore, when asked about the reactivation of the parliamentary commissions on the 2017 attacks and on “Operation Catalonia”, and on the initiative for Catalan, Galician and Basque can be discussed in the European Parliamentand if Junts understands them as gestures of the socialists to convince them, Nogueras said that “they are not doing anything other than the contractual commitment” signed between both parties.
Likewise, the spokesman took the opportunity to attack the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illaasking me “where is” because “this path that those in their party wanted to approve This is not good for Catalonia“.
In any case, Nogueras made it clear that “neither pressure nor blackmail” over votes “tickles them”: “We are not here to bring down the Spanish governments or to maintain them,” he insisted. “What we do is very simple: do you need the votes of the Junts? Well, negotiate with the Junts. If you comply, there are votes, if you do not comply, there are no votes,” he said.If you comply, there are votes; if you don’t, there aren’t.” he reiterated.
