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The Government has "reached out" this Tuesday to the president of the Catalan Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and has asked him to attend the Conference of Presidents called for this Friday in Salamanca, which he announced that he would not attend.

"I think it would be important for Catalonia and that the Catalan citizens would applaud it," said the spokeswoman for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, this Tuesday, during the press conference after a Council of Ministers of special economic burden, in which He has addressed the Conference of Presidents just three days before it is held.

The also Minister of Territorial Policy has considered "very desirable" the presence of Aragonès in the meeting between regional leaders in which "fundamental questions for the future of Catalonia and Spain" will be addressed and in which things will also be jointly recognized. that have been done well ", such as the pace reached in the vaccination process against Covid-19.

"If you want to rethink it, it will be very well received," the spokesperson insisted in statements similar to those expressed by the leader of the Catalan socialists, Salvador Illa, who reflected this Monday, referring to Aragonès, that "who demands dialogue, he has to practice it, "which is why I asked him to reconsider and attend the Conference of Presidents.

Whatever the final decision of Aragonès, the one known as the "reunion agenda" between La Moncloa and the Government -open with pardons to the leaders of the

procés

and which will be resumed after the summer- remains intact, according to Rodríguez: " I hope and wish that in any case if it is not in this forum, in another we can continue talking. "

ERC and JxCat supports

With the budgetary path on its way, the rumor begins about what the government's support will be.

At a key moment in the relationship with Catalonia, the Executive "aspires to revalidate" the "alliance" with ERC and seeks to "add" the vote of JxCat.

This was expressed this Tuesday by the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, who has considered that the "adequate conditions" are in place to approve the public accounts with the support of, at least, the same parliamentary groups that allowed the processing of the current Budgets.

Through dialogue, Montero has said, the Government hopes to design some accounts that are "revitalizing" for Catalonia, which is why it believes that the Republicans will once again show their approval of the budget project.

Likewise, the new position that JxCat occupies internally in the Catalan Executive - at the command of the Treasury portfolio in this new configuration - may bring positions closer, according to Montero, who also hopes to have this vote.

The truth is that the Government intends to "reach out" initially to all the parties that make up the parliamentary arch.

In the last days there was talk of a possible approach to Citizens, but in the Executive, as Montero stressed this Tuesday, contact will be established "primarily" with the groups that "throughout this term have shown their commitment to promoting progressive policies ".

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