Fernández, Garriga and Carrizosa accuse Illa of depending on Pedro Sánchez
BARCELONA, 6 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSC candidate for the Parliamentary elections, Salvador Illa, has avoided clarifying whether he will agree with Junts after this Sunday’s elections, while the president of the Generalitat and head of the ERC list, Pere Aragonès, and the number three of Junts for Barcelona, Josep Rull, have blamed the lack of independence unity.
“Let the Catalans speak, and then we will talk among all of us,” Illa said in the candidates’ debate organized by La Sexta and reported by Europa Press when asked if he ruled out agreeing with Junts.
The socialist has maintained that in this legislature there has been a pro-independence majority “that has not worked”, he has shown his intention to take a step forward to appear in the investiture debate and has urged the pro-independence supporters to specify whether they will block or allow it to happen. open a new stage in Catalonia.
Aragonès has also not specified whether he will support Illa if the socialists need Esquerra’s votes to be president, arguing that the issue should focus on the need to agree on a referendum with the State, address unique financing and strengthen the welfare state and the language. Catalan.
Given this, Rull has appealed to the independence movement to take advantage of the “position of strength” they have in Congress to protect self-government and sovereignty, and has called for unity among Aragonès, who has questioned what Junts has practiced in the last three years.
“Unity is practiced,” the Republican candidate snapped at the number three of Junts, after reminding him that they left the Government and that they did not support the 2024 Budgets.
Although Rull has accused him of having failed to comply with the agreement they reached to support the Republican’s inauguration three years ago, he has stressed that they now have the obligation to “rebuild unity” and forget the reproaches.
The candidate of the Comuns, Jéssica Albiach, has assured that the only ones who have ruled out a pact with Junts are them, she has claimed the need to configure a progressive Government and has called on Illa to clarify who she wants to form a government with.
Furthermore, he has warned of the possibility of the socialist candidate opening up to an agreement with Junts, to which Illa responded: “The PSC has not yet voted on any budget to Junts, as you did with Quim Torra and on other occasions.”
From the CUP, the candidate Laure Vega has accused the PSC of being “the most right-wing affiliate of the PSOE together with Junts”, and has emphasized possible pacts on program issues such as the rejection of Hard Rock, mass tourism or to combat the climate crisis.
The PP candidate for the elections, Alejandro Fernández, has reproached Illa for having decided that his preferred partners will be “the separatists of Carles Puigdemont and ERC”, and has accused him of having lied to the Catalans for supporting the budgets of Aragonès and the amnesty, among other issues.
He has also prescribed “humility” to Illa and has confirmed that he won the last Catalan elections and could not govern because, in his opinion, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, ordered him to do so.
“The decisions that affect Catalonia will be made in Catalonia,” responded the socialist candidate, who insulted Fernández for accusing him of lying, in addition to considering that the PP’s recipe is Vox.
For the Vox candidate, Ignacio Garriga, the PSC is “just another separatist party” that, although he does not clarify whether it will agree with Junts and ERC, believes that Illa represents the same thing as them.
For this reason, he has appealed to “turn the page” on the policies led by Illa and to lead an alternative in Catalonia.
The Cs candidate, Carlos Carrizosa, has also accused the head of the PSC list of “depending” on Pedro Sánchez, who believes that they will not let him be president of the Generalitat so as not to lose the support of ERC and Junts in Congress.
Furthermore, he has taken the opportunity to attack Fernández’s party, and specifically against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for the “meetings” held with Junts, something that Cs will not do, he has pointed out.
