In Valencia Puig joins forces with Aragonès at the gates of the negotiating table to ask the Government for more money
Aragonès continues to deepen its fertile alliance with socialism.
Having consolidated the bilateral relationship with the Government of Pedro Sánchez in exchange for keeping the negotiating table on the "Catalan conflict" alive,
the President of the Generalitat has proposed to deepen his pan-
Catalan
vocation
, strengthening his relations with the presidents of the Islands Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community.
After sealing with
Francina Armengol
a front favorable to the imposition of the Catalan language in all spheres of public life, the
president
received
Ximo Puig
in Barcelona
this Monday to
certify - with his second meeting since the political course began - the consecration of his renewed entente.
Aragonès only refuses to normalize
relations with the PSC of Salvador Illa
, whom he wants to avoid strengthening by granting him the role of preferred partner of the Government.
This explains why the head of the Catalan Executive decided to agree on the Generalitat's Budgets with the common ones, instead of accepting the outstretched hand of the Catalan Socialists, who were willing to support the accounts "free".
Just yesterday, hours before meeting with Puig, the ERC leader considered "unfeasible" any understanding with the PSC as long as he does not explicitly defend the "right to decide" again, which led the Catalan socialists to denounce "a sanitary cordon" against his party. That tension does not exist with Puig, with whom this Monday he insisted on the
joint raising of European funds and on the need to definitively promote the construction of the Mediterranean Corridor
.
Puig has always had an eye on Catalonia, despite the fact that the years of the
procés
forced him to undo the path that he began with Carles Puigdemont in his first stage at the head of the Catalan Generalitat. The
process
twisted everything, and the null understanding of the socialists with Junts did not help at all, so the arrival of Pere Aragonès to the acting presidency -after the departure of Quim Torra- began to pave the way again for a institutional thaw. Puig welcomed him by coining that of the
Mediterranean
Commonwealth
, that is, proposing a Catalan-Valencian alliance that he has proposed to put into practice.
Hence the importance for the Valencian Government of the mini-summit that was organized last September to receive Aragonès in Valencia, five years after opening the doors of the Palau to Puigdemont. Although Puig was then unable to convince his Catalan counterpart to add Catalonia to the regional front to press for a
change in the financing model
, both executives agreed to create joint work commissions. And, in this attempt to strengthen institutional ties between both communities, Puig met again yesterday with Aragonès in Barcelona, with the excuse of his attendance at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Foment del Treball.
Two meetings in less than three months after years of turning their backs, which has given wings to the Valencian PP to wield its most forceful anti-Catalan speech.
After trying in the Senate to veto unsuccessfully - due to the opposition of the PSOE and PNV - the use of "
Països Catalans
", the PP has harshly charged against public aid to nationalist entities.
Hence, before the new appointment, the president of the
popular
, Carlos Mazón, has taken the opportunity to regret that "what happened between Puig and Catalonia is worrying because it seems that we are 'kneeling on the ground'".
"Aragonés is not the ally we need,"
said Mazón, critical of this "submission" to Catalonia.
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