Interview.Jéssica Albiach: "Salvador Illa is now a conservative because he is hunting for Citizens' votes"
The parliamentary representation of En Comú Podem in Catalonia does not have a variation in quantity, the same eight deputies from the previous regional elections repeat, but a jump in quality.
And it is that the parliamentary group led by Jéssica Albiach could be the key to convince ERC to agree to a Generalitat with the socialists and the commons to reissue a new tripartite.
In this sense, Albiach was "excited" yesterday by the possibility of opening "the stage of a left-wing government that allows Catalonia to begin to breathe a future."
The commons want to repeat the government's formula in which they share the Executive with the PSOE, although they have obtained the support of the Esquerra deputies in Congress for fundamental issues such as the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
For this reason, his presence in the Parliament goes through trying to pressure his partners in the Government and enhance their good relations with ERC to achieve this left-wing government.
Precisely, the forceful irruption of Vox in the Parliament as well as the bad relations of Esquerra with JxCat within the Generalitat in the last legislature, with fights over social issues such as regulating access to rental housing that they did not care to hide, are the main arguments of the formation led by Albiach to achieve this carambola that would take them to the Government.
Albiach wasted no time and in his first intervention after learning the results, he asked to build a progress pact with PSC and ERC.
"The government of the left is possible, it is unstoppable," said the candidate of En Comú Podem, who remarked that it will be "the most left-wing Parliament in history."
That is why he asked Socialists and Republicans to put aside the "sterile and typical of other times" vetoes.
Albiach plans to call Salvador Illa and Pere Aragonès to negotiate a "transversal and broad" Government, in addition to asking that no candidate appear for an investiture if he does not have the necessary support.
The main stumbling block is that the Republicans do not forgive the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, for taking the Mayor's Office from them when the Republicans were the most voted force in the city.
An agreement between the commons with the socialists, which counted on the abstention of Ciudadanos and the party of Manuel Valls, caused Colau to snatch the main city of Catalonia from ERC.
However, the commons maintain excellent relations with the members of ERC in Congress through the deputy of En Comú Podem, Jaume Asens, who on several occasions has shown himself in favor of a pardon for pro-independence leaders convicted of sedition by the Court Supreme.
He even went so far as to affirm that these pardons depend on "political will", in an open attack on his partners in the PSOE.
He also charged the Judiciary for processing these pardons "deliberately" slowly.
Precisely, the pardon of the imprisoned independence leaders may be the main incentive to attract ERC to a new tripartite in Catalonia, since it is an issue ignored by the socialists during the campaign.
The immediate departure of those responsible for 1-O, with the former vice president of the Generalitat Oriol Junqueras (ERC) at the head, may be the beginning of a negotiation with the Republicans to which another of the most controversial proposals of We can since he is in the Government as is the draft bill to reform the Penal Code that will include a redefinition of the crime of sedition that will involve a reduction in penalties.
Thus, the independence prisoners could now get out of jail.
In this sense, the second vice president of the Government and leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, assured in an interview during the campaign that "there is no situation of full political and democratic normality in Spain", due to the existence of independence leaders "in prisons and in exile ».
Unlike other party leaders with representation throughout Spain who turned to the Catalan elections, Iglesias hardly lavished himself and only attended a couple of acts to respect the singularity of the commons.
However, Iglesias was more pending in his interventions to attack his socialist government partners than to demand the vote for Albiach.
In the 2017 elections, the commons obtained about 326,000 votes that gave them 8 deputies, seven in Barcelona and one in Tarragona, as in these 2021 elections. Their greatest achievement was in the 2015 elections, under the acronym of Catalunya Sí Que It's Pot, by getting 11 seats in the Parliament.
Despite this, they have received less support in absolute numbers than 4 years ago, which is why they would also be affected by the high abstention that these regional elections have marked.
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