Nervousness grows in Junts in the face of progress in negotiations between ERC and the PSC. Marta Rovira maintains the Republican helm firmly despite the internal crisis the party is experiencing to which is added the scandal of the posters against the Maragalls. Since her return to Catalonia, the Republican leader has toughened her discourse with the PSC if they wanted to count on the 20 Republican deputies. In addition, This Monday he had a meeting with Illa’s right-hand woman, Lluïsa Moret, who is in charge of leading the negotiations.
Given this scenario and in view of the loss of weight in order to be able to count on a solid alliance that will give him the key to the Executive, Carles Puigdemont is considering playing his return card to restrict the conversations between ERC and the PSC. and avoid a hypothetical fall from grace that would leave a repeat election as the only way out. Puigdemont has struggled to re-establish secessionist unity since he announced he was running in the Catalan elections. But as the summer progresses, the balance in favour of Illa’s candidacy It is taking more and more shape, even with folders as sensitive to negotiation as individual financing.
The political scenario is deeply delicate and complex. While an agreement between the PSC and ERC would have to be revalidated by the membership in a very delicate situation for the Republicans, Judge Llarena rejects the application of amnesty to Puigdemont for the crime of embezzlement. The possibility of return increases in Junts, although it is unknown what would happen if he were to cross the French border and even what the detention system would be. Puigdemont has also lost European immunity if Judge Llarena reactivates the European arrest warrant.
Anyway, The leader of Junts made clear his intention to return to Catalonia for the investiture, accepting all the consequences: “If I am a candidate for investiture, I will leave exile definitively to attend the plenary session of the Parliament and ask for the confidence of the chamber. It is assumed that the judges will have applied the provisions provided for in the amnesty law, but if they adopt an attitude of rebellion and insubordination and they refuse to comply with the law, I will still attend the plenary session of the Parliament if I have the majority to be invested.”
Having refused to remain in the European Parliament to risk everything in Catalonia and without counting, for the moment, on an alliance with ERC, Puigdemont can use his letter of return as a ‘coup de force’ that torpedoes the negotiation between Republicans and Socialists to return the spokesperson position of the pro-independence bloc to Junts. However, it is unknown how his ‘martyrdom’ would be staged while the Supreme Court maintains the arrest warrant for the Junts leader. The party is already studying legal scenarios once Puigdemont is arrested with the intervention of the Constitutional Court. due to the filing of several appeals against future preventive detention.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
