ERC seeks to gain ground on Puigdemont by encouraging a negotiation on the referendum that the PSOE denies

Esquerra has been forced to react immediately and on the offensive to Carles Puigdemont’s announcement to run in the May 12 elections under the slogan of “completing the independence process.” The Republicans, forced to desperately vindicate their secessionist roadmap, are now encouraging a negotiation on the referendum that the PSOE denies.

She has been the general secretary of the party, MarthaRovirafleeing in Switzerland, who has boasted of bringing the PSOE to the table “every week” and even addressing self-determination.

“The investiture agreement says very clearly that we are opening the second phase of negotiation of the conflict. We have ready the amnesty and in this second phase it is very clear: self-determination. We are talking about the referendum. We are already talking about the referendum (with the PSOE) in this second phase and we will not stop talking about the referendum,” says the leader in an interview with The newspaper.

According to his words, CKD “he negotiates every week with the PSOE with the participation of international mediators.” “We have been negotiating every week for almost four years and we have never stopped doing so, not even in elections. What has been suspended is the table between governments,” he explains without providing more details.

A rdago, in the middle of the pre-campaign and in clear direct competition with Junts and Puigdemontwhich the PSOE itself has denied and has called “flatly false.” “Those divisive formulas belong to the past and we socialists are working on a future for Catalonia of great agreements and coexistence without fractures for all”; PSOE sources assure.

“What has surprised me is that Marta Rovira is betting on the referendum at the same time that the dialogue table has been suspended,” the leader of the common (Sumar’s sister party) in the Parliament, Jssica Albiach.

In this sense, the leader has defended that the dialogue table has to “be able to continue working” to, according to her, complete the dejudicialization and apply the Amnesty Law.

On Friday, one day after Carles Puigdemont ratified from the south of France that he would run for the Presidency of the Generalitat and would focus a good part of his speech on boasting of having “managed to sit the Government at a negotiating table in Switzerland”, ERC reported that it has met “discreetly and periodically” with the socialists in a table that also has “an international verification mechanism.”

In the same document, I specify that the negotiation table between Governments – the other dialogue forum agreed between Pere Aragons and Pedro Sánchez in exchange for the investiture of the socialist – is suspended due to the call for elections to the Parliamentas has already happened in other electoral contests.

An unprecedented and desperate reaction from the Republicans to not lose focus in the face of the Junts offensive with Carles Puigdemont at the helm.

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