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After publicly requesting it from the tribune of Congress , Albert Rivera has written a letter to Pedro Sánchez this evening to formally request a meeting with only one item on the agenda: "Address the immediate application of Article 155 in Catalonia."

Rivera already anticipated this request in the morning and from the tribune of Congress in the plenary on Wednesday. The president of Cs extended his hand to Sánchez to meet him, but only to talk about the activation of article 155 in Catalonia.

"Beyond our differences," he said, "don't you think it's time, before the court ruling, to sit down and talk together, whatever happens, to apply the Constitution in Catalonia?"

Sánchez did not answer this request. Cs management sources immediately pointed out that they were not going to stay in this parliamentary intervention, but would insist on the meeting. In the afternoon, the letter has been sent.

Sources from the president of Cs added that Rivera will again refuse to meet with Sánchez - as he has already done twice - in the event that the acting president wants to see him to talk about the investiture.

In Cs they insist that the true dialogue between the two must take place on "State affairs", such as the independence challenge that the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, is launching again.

Despite the important independence stab of the Diada, Citizens believes that the president must be required to rectify his challenge and his words on Tuesday. In case of not doing so, the Government must propose to the Senate the application of 155, as was done in 2107. And that although the Government is in operation and with the Courts about to dissolve on the next day 23.

In fact, Pedro Sánchez has answered Rivera in plenary that in this case, "the order of the factors alters the product" because, in his opinion, "we will need some cameras and a government that ceases to be in operation" and is " in full capacity "before making such a drastic decision.

"If we see that the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy are violated and violated ... We did it in the opposition and we are not giving ourselves chest blows as you do, giving patriotism lessons to the rest of the Chamber," he said. Sánchez annoys Rivera, whom he has accused of "overreacting" with the Catalan issue.

In fact, the acting president has finished his speech by disqualifying Rivera and calling him "hypocritical": "He says that you want to clean up the PP's trash, but underpin his governments; he says liberal and centrist, but he agrees with the extreme right." that he does not want to block the Government of Spain. Already, Mr. Rivera. There is such a difference between what he says and what he does that he knows what he is? A hypocrite. "

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