Days go by and the joint candidacy of Aragon y Catalonia It smells more and more like death. But, after 11 months of blockade, nobody wants to certify his death in case there is a miraculous resurrection. Waiting for the COE, which rules out the Catalan candidacy alone announced by the Generalitat, to decree the end of the shared project, in recent hours the political reproaches have increased knowing that the political bill is getting closer every day make it to the Olympic table and no one wants to be responsible for paying for it.
Aragon
Of the three presidents involved in this impasse, the one who seems to come out the best is Javier Lambán. The Aragonese president abjured the technical agreement reached by the COE, and the Spanish, Catalan and Spanish governments, assuring that he “could not accept out of dignity” a distribution that gave 54 tests to Aragon and 42 to Catalonia. And from there he has not moved. The mayors of the Aragonese Pyrenees and also that of Zaragoza, Jorge Azcon (PP), have positioned themselves on the side of the socialist baron in his demand for the Games “at the foot of equality”. The conversations, both public and private, with the socialists Salvador Illa (leader of the PSC in Catalonia) and Jaume Collboni (first deputy mayor of Barcelona) They have not made him abandon his harsh discourse against the “intolerant, supremacist and exclusionary” independence movement. It will be necessary to see if his firmness in this case and the rhetoric against separatism, which already plagued his last electoral campaign and helped him in the Aragonese elections, will also give him re-election next year. “There are elections in Aragon in 2023, it is noted by the anti-Catalanist tone of the representatives of Aragon”, the ‘consellera’ of the Presidency of the Generalitat released this Thursday, Laura Vilagrà.
Catalonia
Little did Pere Aragonès imagine the time bomb that he activated in July, when he sent the official letter to the COE to opt for the 2030 Winter Games, the main folder in sports matters of his first year in office. He was counting on overcoming the misgivings of Aragon and part of the Pyrenees before reaching the IOC vote but he has remained in the first gate of the slalom. After months in which the Generalitat has tried to keep a low profile, holding back so as not to respond to the Aragonese attacks for the sake of an agreement, in recent weeks the volume has been increasing. His darts, seeing that the COE was not for the work of a Catalan candidacy, have begun to target not only Aragon but also against Moncloa, holding it responsible for the Olympic train passing by again. “Does the Spanish government seriously say that if there is no agreement with Aragon, it will be closed?” Laura Vilagrà in the New Economy forum. The ‘consellera’ has explained that she will commission Mònica Bosch to prepare a Catalan candidacy, despite threats from Aragón since the one presenting the candidacy is the COE. “Nobody can have the right to veto.” The ‘consellera’, who does not want to wait for the 2034 train, has announced that there will be no bilateral this summer with the Spanish Government due to the crisis of confidence that the Pegasus case has generated.
spain
The Spanish government had proposed the Games shared with Aragon within its reunion agenda. But Pedro Sánchez has avoided entering the brawl, pointed out to the COE as the person in charge of leading the candidacy. And, even though Javier Lamban had urged him to take action on the matter, publicly neither he nor his government have made any reproach to the COE or the Aragonese baron. Government sources explain that from the outset they have chosen to “accompany” this process to the COE and two regional governments, considering that it was up to them to reach an agreement. That is why they have chosen the “silence“And for not increasing the growing noise and preventing an increasingly possible Olympic failure from splashing on them.
