• Aragón.Javier Lambán trusts Citizens' support for Pedro Sánchez because ERC is "undesirable"
  • Castilla-La Mancha.Emiliano García-Page, on the negotiation between ERC and PSOE: "I don't want Vaseline for Reyes"
  • Pactos.PSOE and ERC advance at the table to "channel the political conflict in Catalonia"

The negotiation between the PSOE and ERC to get the independentistas to abstain in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez continues to raise blisters in the PSOE.

The two barons most reluctant to have the new Coalition Government with United We can depend on ERC, the president of Castilla-La Mancha , Emiliano García-Page, and Aragon , Javier Lambán, have received on Friday the reproach of the first secretary of the PSC, Miquel Iceta, after his latest reviews.

García-Page ironic with the need for "petroleum jelly" so that the PSOE fits a pact with the separatists after Reyes. And Lambán described ERC as "undesirable" and opted for an agreement with Citizens and the PP.

Iceta, in statements this Friday on TVE, has considered these words "inopportune" and has said that "they do not seem typical of presidents of an autonomous community." And he has asked his socialist colleagues to behave with "respect" despite the doubts raised by the negotiation with ERC.

For his part, he has validated the possibility of attending the ERC request to open a dialogue process between the State and the Generalitat. "I think they are asking for a meeting, a table, between governments and they are discussing the format of the table. Governments must always talk not only because there is an investiture, we have a very relevant political problem at hand that will require a lot of dialogue ", he assured. The PSC leader has been confident that there is finally an agreement.

García-Page and Lambán respond to Iceta

Iceta's statements have provoked the reaction of the two leaders cited. García-Page has responded to the request of respect from the first secretary of the PSC and has demanded that he also defend him against "so much insult and attack" that he receives when he defends the equality and unity of Spain. Above all Spain, he added, "all Spaniards speak and all the PSOE speak too."

"When Iceta is told that he cannot go to the Senate and they take away the possibility of being president of this chamber then it is worth saying that Spain cannot depend on the independentists. I say the same thing I said three weeks ago and three years ago and I will probably keep saying it in the next 30, "he said about the ups and downs of the PSOE in its relationship with ERC in recent months, depending on how much they needed their votes.

On the other hand, the president of the Government of Aragon, Javier Lambán, has also replied with a very hard message towards Iceta who has pointed out that "supremacism, unfortunately, is wreaking havoc in Catalonia." "I thought that denying ourselves the right to give an opinion to others was something of the Catalan independentistas, exclusively theirs," he said.

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