The burdens of Pere Aragonès, the most lonely 'president'

• ERC Government will pressure Pedro Sánchez in the renewal of the Constitutional and the Judicial Power with "the fight against repression"

• PGE Esquerra Republicana warns Pedro Sánchez that he is "very far from being able to approve the Budgets"

"You are alone" was one of the first darts that the leader of

in Parliament,

, addressed to the president of the Generalitat,

, last Wednesday at the first plenary session attended by the new Government.

"You have chosen to be alone", the postconvergent continued to

during a control session in which all the omens that warned of the weakness of an Executive that, from the start, only has the support of the 33 deputies of the

.

Or, put another way, as Batet himself expressed and repeated yesterday the general secretary of JxCat,

, "there are 102 parliamentarians out of the 135 in the Chamber who do not support him".

After the rupture of the coalition with Junts, the head of the Catalan Government has repeatedly refused to make any decision that puts his continuity at the Palau de la Generalitat at risk.

Neither a matter of trust, as his former partners insist, nor early elections.

His horizon, he says, is to complete the legislature.

But the almost two and a half years remaining to exhaust that term are a long-distance race for which the

has few saddlebags.

The parliamentary weakness of the Executive, the uncertain course of the dialogue table with the Government, in which Aragonès should introduce his "Canadian path" towards the self-determination

, and the cases still pending judgment from

will cross in the path of the Republicans during a 2023 with municipal elections in May, a factor that tactically conditions any political decision.

In this week's plenary session, Aragonès already verified in the first person the consequences of having gone from the 74 deputies of his investiture (ERC, Junts and

) to the 33 that form his current support.

The lack of definition as to how the autonomous budgets will be approved or the reproaches received from all the groups for the first internal crisis, with the opaque dismissal of the chief commissioner of the

last Monday, were the prelude to the first and early parliamentary defeat of the Executive.

The draft law of the Statistical Plan of Catalonia 2023-2028, the first initiative that the brand new Govern alone of ERC took to the plenary session, only obtained the Republican

.

Junts' abstention from that text, which had been promoted by the Economy Minister

until two weeks ago , clearly showed what can happen with the budgets of the Generalitat, a project that also comes out of Giró's office, but that the

have announced that it will not have their favor because it was conditioned by being part of a coalition Executive.

Despite the stubbornness of the ERC in ignoring the outstretched hand of the

, verbalized again yesterday by

, the approval of the Socialists is now the only viable formula for not having to resort to an extension of the public accounts.

An option that the Republicans try to relativize, but that would entail giving up the increase of 3,000 million euros in the spending ceiling.

For this reason, with Junts already in the opposition with his pants off, no one is unaware that President

needs Esquerra to approve the

as much as Aragonès needs the Catalan socialists, despite the veto expressed by

two years ago weeks.

dialogue table

Without Junts in the Palau de la Generalitat, the Catalan president has more room for maneuver in his commitment to the dialogue table with the Government.

But, even so, he needs "the dejudicialization of the conflict" to be translated into concrete facts before the end of the year, as agreed at the last meeting of the bilateral forum, last July.

ERC insists on the reform of the crime of sedition and, with this, will try to condition its

to Sánchez's Budgets.

The pending judicial file is another of the obstacles that can add turbulence to the journey towards the end of the legislature.

With the incorporation of

to the Cabinet, there are already three directors with legal cases for alleged disobedience.

, with the trial already seen for sentencing, and

, prosecuted, are the other two.

In addition, the head of Equality and Feminism,

, acquitted last year for her role as trustee of the 2017 referendum, could face a repeat trial, as ordered in July by the Barcelona Court.

On the other hand, the deputies

and

, two strong men of the party apparatus, are awaiting trial in the

for their role in the preparations for 1-O.

And, with capital letters, there is another name that could get in the way of Aragonès with incalculable consequences:

.

The hearing on the appeal that the former

filed against the European Parliament for withdrawing his immunity will be held on November 25 at the General Court of the European Union.

The resolution of the case will be fundamental for the judicial future of Puigdemont in Belgium, a country that for the moment maintains suspended the European order issued by the Supreme Court for his extradition.

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