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The Catalan socialists see the culmination of the Insomnia Pact between the PSOE and United We, with the essential support via abstention from ERC, an opportunity to gain institutional power and place more leaders in key positions in the governance of Spain.

The agreement that Pedro Sánchez tries to close with Oriol Junqueras - the former president of the Generalitat José Montilla went to Lledoners prison on Monday - to guarantee his investiture will have a derivative in the Catalan Government, with an agreement of the Republicans with the PSC and the common ones . The reissue of a tripartite that did not leave a sweet memory.

If Pedro Sánchez's plans are fulfilled, the PSC will then become the most direct interlocutor of the Moncloa with ERC, also with the commons - Ada Colau's party, and Miquel Iceta, the main Sanchista plumber in Catalonia.

A position of influence that the PSC wants to take advantage of to guarantee in the next legislature more "his" ministers, since Josep Borrell was never considered, despite being much loved by militants and voters, a man of the organic structure of the Catalan socialists. In fact, Iceta cut off the claims of a minority sector of the PSC so that Borrell was the candidate for Barcelona in the generals of 28-A, instead of Meritxell Batet.

The possible Catalan ministers

The PSC, according to the sources consulted, would settle for a minister in the future Sanchez Executive. The names of ministers are many, including the mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Núria Marín ; the former mayor of Barcelona Jordi Hereu ; the delegate of the Free Zone Consortium, Pere Navarro ; the mayor of Viladecans, Carles Ruiz , and even the leader of the PSC group in Congress, José Zaragoza .

Waiting for the pool to clear, the PSC where it is going to plant a hard battle - they warn - is to maintain the presidency of the Congress and the Senate. "A minister in a coalition government has a relative weight, is blurred, however having the presidency of the two Chambers is important," say sources of the socialist leadership, who, despite having mostly bet on Eduardo Madina in the primary for the Secretary of the PSOE of 2017, afterwards he has always aligned himself with Sánchez.

In the case of Batet in Congress, where a consensus profile has been forged, they believe that its continuity is practically assured. Different case is that of Manuel Cruz in the Senate, after the controversy over his alleged plagiarism of the doctoral thesis and a philosophy manual. At that time, the PSC again bet on him as headliner to the Senate and defend his suitability to continue as the fourth authority of the State.

However, the Catalan socialists admit that now the priority is to get the investiture of Sanchez and they are there. This Monday, Montilla met Junqueras in Lledoners prison. A visit that the former president of the Generalitat has already made on different occasions since the president of ERC is in prison and has always framed in his "personal agenda."

From Granada to Barcelona, ​​from 2013 to 2017

In that context, the Catalan socialists continued to set their own profile regarding the PSOE. This time with a vindication without shades of federalism and the idea of ​​a "plurinational Spain", with Catalonia among its "nations."

The declaration of Granada signed by the PSOE and the PSC in July 2013, to avoid a confrontation that pointed to a traumatic divorce of "the sister parties" -Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba then refused to include the "plurinationality" of Spain- and the subsequent Barcelona 's 2017 statement, signed by Sánchez and Iceta, remain the bilateral relationship framework in which the PSC wants to move.

In the congress that the PSC will hold next December will claim two nuclear aspects of the declaration of Barcelona: the idea that Spain is "plurinational", being Catalonia one of the "nations" that integrate it, and the commitment to move towards A federal state model.

This motion is a reminder to Sánchez that he already assumed these claims as his own; in addition to remembering that the preamble of the Statute, which was approved by the Constitutional Court not without internal and controversial debate, points to Catalonia as "nationality".

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