The future pro-independence coalition government has suffered its first internal crisis before being constituted and that

Pere Aragonès

, is invested as president of the Generalitat this Friday.

The leader of JxCat,

Elsa Artadi

, a person of the utmost confidence in Carles Puigdemont and who everyone took for granted that he was going to occupy the powerful economic vice-presidency, has resigned by surprise to join the Catalan Executive.

The decision has been communicated through letters addressed to Puigdemont and Jordi Sánchez, as La Vanguardia has advanced and this newspaper has confirmed.

Artadi, who was also emerging as the future neo-convergent candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, replacing Laura Borràs, will maintain her position as deputy in the Parliament and as councilor in the Barcelona City Council.

His resignation opens a crisis within the coalition, which will have to seek in the coming days a substitute to take charge of the economic area, and in JxCat, since it has been interpreted as a slam from Artadi to Sánchez, after he negotiated. alone last weekend with Aragonès the government pact.

Relations between Artadi and Sánchez had been accumulating episodes of tension in recent months and their disagreement was notorious in the party. Leaders very close to the Waterloo escape, had maintained an open struggle to hold the delegated leadership in JxCat, as well as to disagree with the relations that it should maintain with ERC. Both supporters of trying to reissue the government pact with the Republicans, Artadi had shown a more belligerent profile and did not rule out the option of once again deciding the hegemony of Catalan nationalism at the polls. In addition, from the economic point of view, Artadi represented a liberal line closer to the traditional positions of Convergència, compared to other voices of JxCat, including that of Sànchez, who defend postulates of the populist left and close to the CUP.

JxCat sources assure that Artadi had the decision taken days ago and that he has decided to wait for the confirmation of the government agreement and the endorsement of it by the JxCat bases to make it public.

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