• Jaume Asens, a sovereignist infiltrated in the court of Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias
  • ERC tries to drag Puigdemont to abstention in the investiture of Sanchez

Quim Torra gives the Catalan branch of Podemos, and in particular Jaume Asens, a key role in getting Pedro Sánchez to fold to the conditions of Catalan independence in exchange for his collaboration with the investiture.

The president of the Generalitat has assured that “friends like Asens” push the socialist candidate to accept the demands of separatism since “he has always been next to the right to self-determination in Catalonia and has always gone to demonstrations in favor of the political prisoners ».

The head of the list of the commons - of a markedly sovereignist profile - has already acted as a mediator with the secessionist parties on other occasions, such as when, accompanied by Pablo Iglesias, he personally negotiated with Oriol Junqueras in the Lledoners prison for the support of the Republicans to the General State Budgets. Support that, however, did not materialize and ended up leading to the end of the legislature and the call for elections of 28-A.

However, that circumstance did not cloud relations between Asens and ERC. And is that the elected deputy of the commons is much more similar to Republicans than JxCat, however much Torra considers him "friend." It could be said that more than the president's friend he is of the independence cause.

Hence, Ada Colau's right hand is going to be erected, in effect, as the intermediary between the PSOE and the Republicans to try to tie the endowment and make Pablo Iglesias vice president of the Government.

The ERC requirement to abstain is the return to the Pedralbes summit, that is to recover the bilateral negotiation between the central government and the Government of Catalonia that led Sanchez to commit to “open an effective dialogue to convey a political proposal” and solve «The political conflict about the future of Catalonia».

Yesterday, Torra agreed that this is also the requirement of JxCat to add his abstention to that of ERC, but pointed out that the PSOE must accept that the independence parties go to the negotiating table to "defend the right to the proper determination of Catalonia" and also to approve the recovery of the "rapporteur" to oversee the conversations. Unlike the president , ERC has not formally claimed Sánchez to recover that controversial figure, which ended up dynamiting the relationship between the socialists and independence.

It should be remembered that Sanchez does not have enough with the abstention of CKD to be invested . If he obtains the support of the PNV and the regionalist parties with the exception of the Canary Coalition, the socialist candidate will need those of Junqueras to abstain, but that JxCat or Bildu also do so. In summer, the Basque independence activists acted in coordination with ERC and abstained despite the fact that their votes were not determinative.

His collaboration seems again, today, more plausible than that of JxCat, who has insistently reproached ERC for his "free" support to Sánchez in July and that this Sunday has returned to clarify through Torra that he is willing to force some Third elections «It is clear that yes. We already voted no to Mr. Sánchez and we never voted in exchange for anything. Not at all, ”said the president of the Generalitat in an interview with the newspaper Ara .

It is expected that in the next days ERC and JxCat will sit down to negotiate a joint position for the investiture, although the misgivings between the two great Catalan separatist formations do not guarantee that the talks will bear fruit.

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