ERC announces that it has also held meetings with an international mediator with the PSOE to compete with Puigdemont

Victor Mondelo Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-10:49

The electoral competition between the two major Catalan independence forces can be inaugurated. One day after

Carles Puigdemont

ratified from the south of France that he will run for the Presidency of the Generalitat and focused a good part of his speech on boasting about having "managed to sit the Government at a negotiating table in Switzerland", ERC has reported that He has met "discreetly and periodically" with the socialists at a table that also has "an international verification mechanism."

The announcement has the approval of the PSOE, as it has been made public through a joint statement from the Republicans and the Socialists, in which they also specify that the negotiation table between Governments - the other dialogue forum agreed between

Pere Aragonès

and

Pedro Sánchez

in exchange for the investiture of the socialist - is suspended due to the call for elections to the Parliament, as has already happened before other electoral contests.

ERC has been forced to react immediately to the media event with which Puigdemont launched his candidacy for the Generalitat yesterday and in which he dedicated a good part of his speech to boasting about the achievements achieved in his negotiation with the PSOE since the general elections.

The leader of Junts boasted of having opened "an exceptional stage" by having managed to get the PSOE to negotiate and sign the investiture agreement outside of Spain. He stressed that he has managed to "drag" the socialists to approve the amnesty and placed special emphasis on their clandestine meetings to advance the negotiation of a new self-determination referendum. "Meeting at La Moncloa, which is like playing at the Bernabéu with a referee and VAR in favor of the locals, is not the same as meeting in Switzerland with international mediation, which is like playing at Wembley with neutral referees," Puigdemont ironically stated. intention to belittle the negotiation table between governments that ERC agreed with the PSOE.

Hence, this Friday the Republicans recalled that their investiture pact with the Socialists also includes a second table with an international verifier that pursues the same objectives as Puigdemont's, despite the fact that, until now, it had been completely overshadowed by the meetings. of Junts and the PSOE abroad.