ERC seeks to gain ground on Puigdemont by encouraging a negotiation on the referendum that the PSOE denies. "We are already talking about the referendum in this second phase and we will not stop talking about it," says ERC leader.

An unprecedented and desperate reaction from the Republicans to not lose focus in the face of the Junts offensive with Carles Puigemont at the helm. "Those divisive formulas belong to the past and we socialists are working on a future for Catalonia of great agreements," PSOE sources assure.