The PSC already defends alone the maintenance of the Catalan regional elections for next February 14.
Although it was also in favor of holding the elections on the stipulated date, ERC has yielded to the pressure of
Carles Puigdemont
and will swallow with the postponement advised by the epidemiological predictions of the Generalitat of Catalonia itself.
On the contrary, the Catalan socialists are entrenched, aware that postponing the vote would dilute the
Illa effect
.
The PSC assumes that moving away the vote of the replacement as candidate of
Miquel Iceta
by the still Minister of Health would reduce his options to win the presidency of the Generalitat.
On Tuesday it was Iceta himself who defended that "there is no reason" to delay the regional elections, and this Wednesday it was the
number two
of the PSC,
Eva Granados
, who has gone a step further by arguing in Parliament that the postponement of the elections "is not justified" without a home confinement, a scenario that does not contemplate the current state of alarm imposed by the Government.
Granados' warning is not minor, since he anticipates the intention of the PSC to appeal to the Central Electoral Board (JEC) the decree to postpone the elections that would have to be signed by the acting president and ERC candidate,
Pere Aragonès
.
In addition to pointing out the non-existence of a legally protected home confinement that would prevent voting, the Socialists could argue that the delay has not been taken by political consensus among all the concurrent formations and that the Government is breaching the Law of the Presidency of the Generalitat, which pushed to the automatic call for elections after the deadline to find a replacement for the disqualified president, Quim Torra.
After giving his arm to twist before JxCat, ERC intends to take advantage of the stubbornness of the PSC to portray it before the electorate as an insensitive formation in the face of the advance of the pandemic.
«It is already serious to leave your responsibilities in the middle of a pandemic to go and act as a candidate, but it is even worse to press for pure electoralism.
It is difficult to be more portrayed, "said the spokesman for ERC in the Catalan Chamber,
Sergi Sabrià
, to later bring up how the PSOE has decided to delay its Federal Congress to October due to the coronavirus, while betting on maintaining the Catalan elections in full peak of the third wave.
Obviating that until a few days ago Aragonès himself firmly defended the holding of the elections on February 14, ERC is now rushing to justify its change of criteria.
On Thursday, the Health Department -controlled by the Republicans- will present a crude report on the increase in infections and the Generalitat's lawyers are already preparing another legal report to underpin the modification of the electoral calendar.
The Government wants to attend the decisive meeting with the parties on Friday with a postponement proposal agreed between its two conflicting partners and is even considering two new dates for voting: May 16 and 30.
The rest of the formations do not intend to object: Cs and the CUP have already openly demanded to postpone the elections, the
commons
also see it with good eyes and the PP will not fight.
Vox also threatens to appeal to the Electoral Board a possible postponement, but it will not be able to express its opposition at the party table, as it is not present because it is still an extra-parliamentary formation.
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