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The hangover from the General Policy Debate in the Catalan Parliament today has led to a long day in which rumors of a possible rupture of the Government still fly over the Palau de la Generalitat.

The dart launched on Tuesday by the president of Junts per Catalunya in the Chamber, Albert Batet, announcing that his party would ask Pere Aragonès to submit to a matter of confidence if he did not offer them "guarantees of complying with the investiture agreement" yet resounds in the headquarters of Esquerra Republicana.

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, who in his first speech in the debate presented his new proposal to get a legal self-determination referendum called, was upset by Batet's words and, already in his reply, made his refusal clear: "I will not enter in any game that subjects the Catalan institutions to uncertainty and a temporary period that the citizens do not deserve".

The head of the Catalan Government has canceled his agenda for this Wednesday first thing in the morning and has locked himself in his office with his trusted team and senior ERC officials to study the open scenarios after the new crack in the coalition.

Aragonès's discomfort is not only due to the anger of his partners, but also to the fact that he was unaware of Junts' intentions to request a question of trust during the debate.

An ignorance that even reached members of the JxCat parliamentary group itself.

For this reason, the Republican leader has summoned all his advisers to an emergency meeting this afternoon that has lasted for just over two hours.

Aragonès wanted to know the position of each of the seven members of the Cabinet of the post-convergence branch and if they were aware of Batet's proposal, which he believes it supposes "

Once the conclave is over, Aragonès has summoned Jordi Turull, general secretary of Junts, with whom he is meeting at the Palau de la Generalitat.

The post-convergence executive is also meeting at this time to assess the meeting of the Consell Executiu.

Aragonès considers that the current social and economic situation no longer admits certain partisan adventures that, in recent years, have been the usual reality of Catalan politics.

And from Esquerra they see institutional stability as incompatible with the continuous speculations of breaking up the Government by the leadership of Junts, with Laura Borràs at the helm.

For weeks now, the postconvergents have been demanding three conditions in order not to force an irreversible crisis in the Generalitat: unity of action between Junts and ERC in the General Courts, creating a management body for the procés in which pro-independence parties and entities participate, and that in the agenda of the dialogue table with Pedro Sánchez, only self-determination and amnesty appear.

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