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Pedro Sánchez will call the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Quim Torra, to close the meeting between the two, according to the first vice president of the Government, Carmen Calvo, said Monday in an informal conversation with journalists after his inauguration as number two of the Executive and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory.

Last Sunday it was the President of the Government himself who told the media about his willingness to hold this meeting with Quim Torra, despite the fact that the Supreme Court endorsed last week the decision of the Central Electoral Board to withdraw the deputy minutes in the Parliament as a result of his conviction for disobedience and his penalty of disqualification.

Last Friday, the Provincial Electoral Board of Barcelona agreed to withdraw the parliamentary credential. Quim Torra refuses to accept this resolution and argues that "he cannot disable a deputy and less the president of the Generalitat." The Government shares this thesis and, regardless of the criteria of the Electoral Board, maintains the president as an interlocutor pending the final ruling of the Supreme Court, which must still rule on the merits of the matter.

The appointment between Pedro Sánchez and Quim Torra is so relevant because the head of the Government demands this step before addressing the creation of the dialogue table between the Generalitat and the State to address an exit to the "Catalan conflict", which the PSOE has agreed with ERC. In fact, both talked already last week and agreed to meet in Madrid or Barcelona . The new call that the president of the Government will make in the next few days would be only to specify the day and place of the meeting.

"We are already Government, we can already sit down"

The Executive, as Calvo explained, is now ready to face the dialogue with the Generalitat because it has already been established. The agreement between socialists and independentistas set a maximum period of 15 days to do so, which began on Monday. "We are already Government, we can already sit down," said the vice president. Now it is the other party, in relation to ERC and JxCat, who has to be clarified.

Torra, and this is demonstrated by his willingness to meet with the President of the Government earlier, has gone from initial skepticism on the table with the State agreed with ERC to try to lead it. And that is why he has proposed that the independence movement reach a joint position that moves to this forum.

The party of Oriol Junqueras has proposed that non-sovereign forces like the commons - the Catalan We can also collaborate, but on Sunday the Catalan National Assembly indicated in a statement that the "Catalan table before the bilateral" is formed exclusively by parties, entities and independentista social actors.

The controversy between both parties lasted this Monday. ERC spokesman Gabriel Rufián considered "an error" to exclude the commons because "we are here to add and not to subtract." The deputy of Junts per Catalunya, Elsa Artadi , replied: "Is it so difficult to understand that you cannot be on both sides of the same negotiating table?", In reference to the fact that Podemos is already represented by the Central Executive in the table between governments. This rifirrafe keeps the creation of this bilateral mechanism in suspense.

Carmen Calvo vindicates "democracy"

Calvo has taken for granted, as the president has already stated, that the management of the Catalan issue is under "his umbrella" and that the Ministry of Territorial Policy, headed by Carolina Darias, will deal with the "ordinary" issues of the relationship with the autonomous communities. Darias will be responsible for organizing the Conference of Autonomous Presidents promised by Sánchez every year.

In a brief speech, Carmen Calvo said the new government will be "prudent" in "bravery" and "firm in the defense of democracy." He considered that in recent years challenges have accumulated and will not "elude" any. Spain, he said, must defend its unity, not only territorial but also "in coexistence."

The vice president called the PP and Citizens a "loyal opposition" and said they will address all parties in the House to reach agreements, but the truth is that the feeling in the Executive is that they will have to deal with "irrational" positions.

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