Quim Torra admits without dissimulation that the Catalan legislature is exhausted by the agonizing coexistence between its partners, but it does not prevent him from reaffirming that he will extend the mandate as much as necessary to give JxCat time to recover the electoral pulse at the cost of an ERC that, for the moment, it continues to lead all the polls and run as the great favorite to conquer the Generalitat if regional elections are held in Catalonia.

After the harsh and public clash with ERC on account of his pact with Pedro Sánchez to approve the latest extension of the state of alarm with his back to Torra - whom Pere Aragonès did not report on the agreement until it was closed - the President of the Generalitat has recognized this Wednesday that the Catalan legislature "has no political track record." The head of the Catalan Executive has resorted to the same expression used in January, when - before the health crisis broke out - he announced the end of the legislature and promised to communicate the date of the autonomous as soon as the Catalan Budgets were approved, something that happened on April 24.

"People are not asking me to call elections, but to solve the problems and put the country ahead of partisan interests. We will go to the polls when this crisis is on track, now we can not distract ourselves from the main objective, "said Torra to appease, once again, the desire of the ERC, which has been demanding the president for months to fulfill what was promised and, for At least, already agree on the date of the elections, although its celebration will not be imminent.

Oriol Junqueras filed this request in early May and this week, after the last clash with JxCat, the Deputy Secretary General of the Republicans, Marta Vilalta , elaborated on the same claim . "Better to agree on the date than to call for a fracture in the Govern," warned the ERC spokeswoman, who also stressed the danger that the Supreme Court will end up pushing the elections with Torra's disqualification.

That scenario does not seem to worry the president , who this Wednesday has predicted that the decision of the High Court "is going to be long." In any case, a firm condemnation of the President of the Generalitat would only offer ammunition to JxCat who, far from embracing the pactist independence movement of ERC, seeks to deepen the clash and victimhood to revitalize his electoral options.

Thus, when it is two years since the inauguration of the Government that promised to "make effective" the Catalan republic, Catalonia faces an uncertain path, with an Executive in frank decomposition and without a horizon to renew it and to be able to confront with economic reconstruction with guarantees and social after the pandemic.

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