The second meeting today between the PSOE and ERC in Congress to negotiate the abstention of the independence formation in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez has ended just as the first meeting concluded last week: With the expression of his willingness to continue the talks and the agreement for a new appointment, which will occur within a week, on December 10.
But, unlike the first time they each wrote their own statement to give their own version of the content of the event, the two parties have signed a joint statement in which they say "they have reaffirmed that there is a political conflict and that we must resolve it politically. " In this sense they reveal that "we have advanced in the reflection to activate the political pathway looking for the necessary instruments for its channeling". No information is provided on what this political exit would consist of.
The pact for a coalition government that Sanchez sealed with Pablo Iglesias after the 10-N elections needs the abstention of ERC to be viable. Without their indirect support, that Executive will not start.
The meeting has gathered again around a table -in the gala dining room of the Congress- the vice-secretary general of the PSOE and parliamentary spokesman, Adriana Lastra, the secretary of the PSOE Organization, José Luis Ábalos, and his counterpart in the PSC , Salvador Illa, and by ERC, his parliamentary spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, the deputy general secretary of the party, Marta Vilalta, and the president of the National Consell of the Republicans, Josep Maria Jové, charged in the 1-O case .
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