Barcelona (EFE) fact: “The time is grave and Catalonia must be defended”, he proclaimed.
In an appearance in the Gothic Gallery of the Palau de la Generalitat, after an ordinary meeting of the Government that has served to analyze the results of the municipal elections last Sunday and the electoral advance announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, Aragonès has appealed JxCat, the CUP and En Comú Podem to “find the mechanisms” to act with “unity” in the face of what will be a “frontal attack against the basic pillars” of Catalan self-government and the values of Catalan society.
After JxCat launched a proposal to ERC this Monday to jointly present themselves in the general elections on July 23, Aragonès has avoided specifying what formulas this unitary “democratic front” should be translated into, but he has hinted that it has to serve to guarantee stability in “governance” in Catalonia -ERC now leads the Government without partners- and form sovereignist alliances in the city councils.
What he has ruled out from the outset is also advancing elections to the Parliament, since, as he has stressed, “Catalonia needs strong institutions.”
Puigdemont and Turull reply that they will only endorse a front “for independence”
Following the appeal, the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, have replied via Twitter to Pere Aragonès that they are only willing to set up a common front with ERC if it is to “advance towards independence”. .
After JxCat launched a proposal to ERC this Monday to jointly present themselves in the general elections on July 23, Aragonès has avoided specifying what formulas this unitary “democratic front” should be translated into, but he has hinted that it has to serve to guarantee stability in “governance” in Catalonia -ERC now leads the Government without partners- and form sovereignist alliances in the city councils.
The first messages of the first swords of JxCat have revealed their skepticism regarding the offer of Aragonès.