The leadership of Aragonès raises doubts in ERC

• Catalonia ERC pressures the Government with an agreed referendum and achieve independence with 55% support

• 'Procés' ERC sees a "coup" that the Prosecutor's Office opposes rehabilitating Junqueras

The figure of Pere Aragonès begins to raise doubts within the ERC, where Oriol Junqueras awaits the moment to put an end to his bicephaly and once again act as supreme leader.

The low popularity ratings that the president of the

has among Catalans, as recent polls warn, question his attempt to become the "most pragmatic" leader of nationalism and deepen the distance between the members of the Aragonès circle and the old guard de Junqueras, locked in the party, the parliamentary group and institutional positions.

Some internal differences that the Republicans have managed to cover up, since none of the factions wants to put the profitable solo management of the Generalitat at risk, but which explain the nervousness shown by Aragonès this week.

Unable to carry out the budgets for 2023 and with an Executive whose parliamentary weakness is portrayed by the opposition plenary session after plenary session, the president admitted his precarious situation by almost begging for the PSC's support for public accounts.

In the midst of a strike by teachers, doctors and taxi drivers, Aragonès called a press conference to swallow the toad of accepting the impulse of the

, one of

's demands and which ERC has been opposing for years for medium reasons. environmental.

A first assignment that may be followed by others, such as the expansion

, when ERC and PSC resume budget negotiations.

"We have given a lesson in generosity, complex decisions are for the brave," Aragonès said yesterday by way of justification, at the ERC congress held in

.

Conclave in which the bases ratified the "Montenegrin way" towards the self-determination referendum agreed with the State.

These urgencies of ERC to have the PSC, which tied weeks ago the insufficient support of the

to the budgets, contrast with the calm of an Illa who has decided to cook the president of the Generalitat over low heat and make him suffer his contempt and a miscalculation: having thought that the ERC agreement with Pedro Sánchez in Congress directly assured him of the favorable vote of the Catalan socialists in

.

That of the accounts is not, however, the only problem that Aragonès besets.

The gray figure of him had been presented by the publicists of the Catalan Government as the trait of a hard-working, efficient man who was going to impose a more pragmatic leadership after the turbulent years of the

.

A formula that enjoyed some effectiveness while he was able to agree with Sánchez on all the government's concessions to the independence movement, from pardons to the repeal of sedition and the reform of embezzlement.

Achievements that justified a bilateral dialogue table highly criticized by broad sectors of nationalism.

1-O trials

However, the announcement by the Prosecutor's Office that it will not reduce the request for penalties for embezzlement for the politicians convicted by the

deactivates the effects of the modification agreed by the Republicans with the Government and complicates the judicial scenario for the

pending trial for their participation in

.

Waiting for the prosecutors of Catalonia to rule, there are two ERC leaders and very close to Junqueras, key in the preparation of the illegal referendum from the Department of Economy, such as

and

, who are facing a eight-year prison sentence.

The possibility of ending up in jail has stirred the waters in the ERC leadership.

His imprisonment would ignite the ERC bases and push Aragonès to a total break with Sánchez and the end of his "path of dialogue."

Also of Aragonès's leadership in ERC, increasingly questioned due to his difficulty in connecting with the nationalist electorate, as shown by a recent survey in which the Catalan is the worst valued regional president in his community.

Dramatic contrast with the popularity enjoyed by Junqueras, who increasingly likes to show that he is still the true boss of the party.

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