Puigdemont & Sánchez: Political Countdown Begins

In the two meetings, and according to some sources consulted, the leader of Junts explained that in the meeting on Tuesday with Salvador Illa he informed him that the situation of the Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, “is critical” and that they are “very disappointed by the breaches of the PSOE”. Puigdemont has taken the floor before the dome to explain how the meeting was planned with island: at first, the meeting was at the request of the current President, which Puigdemont stated that he was “face -to -face and non -telematic”, and that he sought a day when Illa had to go to Belgium. In this case he coincided with the exhibition in the Eurocambra on the Millennium of Montserrat. The warning of whether Together “continues to support Sánchez” is what Puigdemont referred to when he told the Catalan Summer University that things would happen in the fall. During the Island conversation at no time did he ask Puigdemont to approve the Spanish accounts, according to the sources Boarders consulted. The issue of budgets was not addressed. A leader leader shot that the meeting with Island was “a first approach” to flatten the ground for the interests of Sánchez.

It was an affable conversation, but with warnings about the journey of the legislature to the State. The balance of Puigdemont’s meeting is “positive”, according to sources, because “it has allowed to visualize together as an alternative” to the executive of the island. The executive has not addressed specific issues of breaches and has not been talked about the transfer of immigration competencies or this matter in general, nor of the tax balances or other folders such as the officiality of Catalan, but of the agreement of Brussels in a global way. It has been a warning, also internal, to think about what to do with Sánchez from October. The Spanish President has the budgets on his mind and together he will address in the next monographic executive this affair in which the former president has requested that he be thought in depth.

Criticism of the government

Beyond the interior, the political conclusion of the direction of Together has been in recent months: they attribute to the island a “process of evaluation” of Catalonia and have evaluated their governing action and the lack of “defense of the interests of Catalans”. Foque points that contribute to “the impoverishment of the country”, according to the story that the Boarders have stated in a statement after the meetings. Together he intends to be “alternative” to the island and this is where they work for this legislature, after independence lost the Catalan executive in the last elections to Parliament.

The Spanish government holds the meeting

The reactions to the meeting continued on Wednesday, in the Principality and the rest of the state. The Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolaños, said that the island meeting with Puigdemont “is another step in political and institutional standardization”, and contradicted the former president, who spoke of “democratic abnormality.” “The photo of a reunion,” added Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares. Very different has reacted the president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, who warned in an interview with Esradio that “the devil plays to convince us that it does not exist or that it has been quenched” and that “it is being rearmed for a new blow”. For its part, the CUP believes that the encounter between Illa and Puigdemont was “empty of political content” and believes that it is a “direct order” of Sánchez on the island, to whom it calls “butler of Spain”.

Who has been very critical is the President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, who has charged hard against the meeting. In a media attention, he has described him as “cryptic”, full of “opacity” and that generates “many questions” and “no answer”. That is why he has asked the island to show that “whoever commands is him” and not Puigdemont with “the remote control” as he thinks it happens in the Spanish government.