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Esquerra Republicana today staged his estrangement and discomfort with the government of Pedro Sánchez , in the tribune of speakers of Congress , who has threatened the possibility of permanently withdrawing his support in this legislature. Thus weakening the heterogeneous majority of the investiture and in which ERC had next to the PNV a privileged position.

"The principles are not negotiated and the truth is that we have all failed. Today we are irremediably taking ahead the spirit of investiture," said Republican spokesman, Gabriel Rufián , who has once again claimed that the "table is activated "bilateral dialogue with the Government to explore ways to get independentista" political prisoners "out of jail.

"Negotiations in politics sweat, you play variable geometry under a false axiom, I am the best there is of everything there is. Either we or nothing. Convince by default and not consensus. That is, you play blackmail ", has affirmed an irritated Rufián . The second support from Ciudadanos that Sánchez has used to extend the state of alarm has been interpreted by ERC as a present snub and a declaration of future intentions.

For example, hindering the bilateral negotiating table between the Government and the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra . In his criticism of the socialist leader, the ERC spokesman recalled that one of his requests to support the extension today was that "there be co-responsibility" so that the Generalitat could regain the powers regarding Covid-19; as well as the modification of the alarm state law to strengthen the coordination of administrations.

The republican leader recalled that during the debate of fifteen days ago for the previous extension, they defended that there was an alternative to explore in the state of alarm raised by the Government, an alternative between "the dichotomy of health and freedom."

"Today here, once again, and perhaps definitively, the refusal to negotiate anything with the ERC is confirmed. They have chosen the right," said Rufián, who considered it "unjustifiable" to agree with Cs. "Arrimadas is now wearing a moderate right for a while, Arrimadas is not Merkel, but Cospedal," he stressed.

Rufían has directly questioned Podemos, recalling the memory of Julio Anguita, and asked them to reflect on the reasons behind the new dialogue of the PSOE with Cs. "Do they know why the measures of the alarm state agree with them, because they are unnecessarily reactionary and recentralizing?" Rufián asked.

Junts per Catalunya

Later, the JxCat spokesperson, Laura Borràs, has accused the Government of generating a "confusion ceremony" to hide that Spain "is not the most decentralized country in Europe" and that its idea of ​​"co-governance" is still a trick. of marketing. "The lack of confinement goes back to the pre-statutory phase, this is an extension of the outrage of the self-government of Catalonia," said Borràs , who has reproached Sánchez for "centralism of the single command."

The nationalist leader has also criticized the pact with Cs and that "before orange that co-governance" and has wondered if that alliance represents the new normality that the government proclaims. "Our new normality will be that of creating a state of its own, which can decide to close borders, a state that does not have to demand the immediate release of political prisoners," he said.

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