ERC takes a turn in its position on the agreement signed by Perdro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias to create a coalition government. From "right now, our position is a no," said Tuesday by Republican spokeswoman Marta Vilalta, to the possibility of abstaining announced Wednesday by the vice president of the Government and national coordinator of ERC, Pere Aragonès .

Aragonès has warned in an interview in Catalunya Ràdio that, although his party is currently installed in the no to the investiture of Sánchez: "Either there is a political negotiation table [about Catalonia], or we cannot abstain." This is how the Catalan independence politician has pronounced in relation to the agreement between PSOE and United We can form a government and the stage that opens for the investiture.

The Republican leader has thus referred to the return to the negotiation established by Sanchez and Quim Torra at the Palacio de Pedralbes on December 20. The document they agreed upon then stated that the situation in Catalonia was to be negotiated at a table of parties, outside the Catalan Parliament and the Congress of Deputies, and that it would be controlled by a "rapporteur", according to the words of the vice president herself of the Government, Carmen Calvo.

"If you want a facilitation of the investiture by ERC, sit and talk [sit and talk] and we believe the conditions for dialogue," said Aragonès, who added that, for the moment, no one has contacted he to talk about the endowment and about the role of the 13 ERC deputies in Congress.

Aragonès has reproached the PSOE for "embracing Citizens' account of what is happening in Catalonia" and has warned that "ERC's position will not be the same as in July", given that there is no longer "margin for trust ".

The Republican leader has assured that he demands a negotiating table with the State, and not within Catalonia, because there is a "political conflict" between Catalonia and the State.

"There must be a commitment to create a political negotiation table between equals, Catalan institutions and the State," said Aragonès, who insisted: "If there is no dialogue and negotiation table, we cannot facilitate any Spanish Government."

"Seeing the background, which has reduced confidence to zero, and the frivolity with which they have acted, there must be clear concreteness about whether they want ERC to facilitate anything," he added.

The vice president of the Government has said that the sudden agreement to form a government between PSOE and United We can evidence has "taken the hair" to the Spaniards and the "frivolity" of both formations.

Aragonès has shown its support to the members of the Mesa del Parlament, whom the Prosecutor's Office asks to investigate, has deplored that the State insists on the "criminal" route to address "the political conflict" in Catalonia and has demanded Sanchez keep " an open communication channel "with the president of the Generalitat.

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