• Quim Torra wants to keep the dialogue table with the Government despite the coronavirus crisis

The coronavirus crisis has managed to paralyze the process , despite the fact that the initial intention of the pro-independence leaders was to continue with the bilateral negotiation with the Government and make it compatible with the management of the health, economic and social emergency that the whole country is experiencing. .

Pedro Sánchez has agreed with Quim Torra "to postpone the negotiating table until the health situation is in another phase." The Prime Minister has reached this pact with that of the Generalitat during a telephone conversation held this Friday afternoon to communicate his decision to declare the alert phase with the aim of containing the aggressive spread of the virus, as confirmed sources of the Catalan Executive.

The spread of infections and the effort of all the administrations to stop them has made Torra reconsider, who on Wednesday demanded that Sánchez hold the second meeting of the negotiating table next week, no later than the 19th. The only concession made by the president was to offer the forum to meet electronically. "We have discovered in this country that many timely and valid meetings and decisions can be made by videoconference", defended the President of the Generalitat, who thus claimed compliance, despite the exceptional circumstances, with the agreement reached at the first meeting of the table bilateral -the one held in La Monloa- in which both parties agreed that they would meet on a monthly basis.

The coronavirus has forced Torra to temporarily leave the nationalist trench. This explains why he will participate in the meeting by videoconference between the Prime Minister and those of all the autonomous communities. When Sánchez announced his intention to hold this conclave, Torra only agreed to study his contest at the event, but he finally agreed to be present even if it means breaking his decision not to participate in any multilateral meeting with more autonomous presidents. Policy with which the Generalitat defends and demands preferential and bilateral treatment with the Government.

"Today there are no political colors, there are no personal disputes or electoral interests. Today we need responsibility, generosity, solidarity, understanding and social leadership, "said Torra to argue before his electorate his presence at the meeting on the coronavirus.

The negotiating table is paralyzed until further notice, like the rest of political activity, after JxCat despised it by calling it a "deception" during the massive Carles Puigdemont rally in Perpignan.

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