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Ultimatum of Oriol Junqueras to Pedro Sánchez so that he does not extend his alliance with Ciudadanos and access the claims of Catalan independence. The ERC leader has instructed the Prime Minister to "decide whether to launch into the arms of Citizens or if he wants to keep the majority of the investiture."

"It is in your hands, but it cannot continue as it has been up to now, it cannot continue imposing decisions," the president of the Catalan secessionist formation abounded this Thursday, in an interview with RNE that should have been issued yesterday before the parliamentary session in the that Sánchez managed to extend the state of alarm for the fourth time with the votes of Ciudadanos and the PNV, and with the opposition of the ERC, which for the first time since the health crisis began, voted against giving the government sole control over the pandemic . The State Public Radio News Council has protested the postponement of the interview, which prevented Junqueras's warning to Sánchez from being made public before his alliance with Ciudadanos came to fruition in Congress.

Junqueras' demands on Sánchez not to detonate the legislature are clear. The first and unavoidable claim is to allow Catalonia to autonomously manage the lack of confidence. "We are not in a war, there is no need for a single command," said the leader of the Republicans to urge "co-governance" of de-escalation. Yesterday, the Minister of Health of the Generalitat, Alba Vergés, already assumed that the Government would accept his proposal for lack of confinement, for which the majority of the autonomous community, including the city of Barcelona, ​​would not go to phase 1 next Monday.

The second requirement of Junqueras to continue propping up the increasingly weak Central Executive is to retake the negotiating table on "the Catalan conflict" as soon as the health crisis subsides. If the forum does not work, the legislature will end, the ERC president has threatened to clarify to Sánchez that the separatist desire of his party remains intact despite the pandemic.

The reaction of the Executive has come from the hand of the first vice-president of the Government, Carmen Calvo , who has assured that the Governor has not changed alliances after having agreed with Ciudadanos to extend the state of alarm.

"No, there is not. We are a progressive government », Calvo answered in an interview on TVE, to the question of whether there has been a change in the alliances of the coalition executive, invested thanks to the votes, among others, of ERC.

Ask for a date for the elections to Torra

Junqueras has not only had warnings for Sánchez, Quim Torra has also been questioned by the leader of the ERC, who has demanded that the President of the Generalitat keep his word and set a date for the Catalan elections, once the Budgets have been approved. The president of the republicans has asked not to wait for the Supreme Court to mark the Catalan electoral calendar with the disqualification of the president and has sued JxCat "to stop making decisions without consulating the government partner for pure electoral tacticism."

The PNV sees the alarm state "exhausted"

The PNV president has also considered the state of alarm "exhausted" and asked Sánchez to search for instruments that "have a greater consensus" and that "do not raise blisters or political scandals."

Ortuzar has made these statements after the first vice president of the Executive, Carmen Calvo, assured this Thursday that "surely" it will take "a few more weeks" for the state of alarm to go beyond May 24, and has not ruled out asking its extent over time.

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