Together, on the CUP: “It’s over”

The official version, in the absence of the decisive meetings with the CUP, is that so much ERC What JxCat they continue to trust in the negotiation with the anti-capitalists, although they intend from the outset to overthrow the first budgets of the new Government. But under the official version there is a strong opinion in Junts: “With the CUP you have to puncture the ball, call the game over and close the playground.”

The opinion of members of the JxCat parliamentary group and members of the Government is as follows: Esquerra is the one who has to answer for the pact signed with the ‘cupaires’. Pact that was sealed long before Esquerra and Junts agreed to rule together, and that, therefore, irritated the hosts of Carles Puigdemont. An irritation similar to the one you suffered Together for the “yes and, especially, Artur Mas when the CUP sent him “to the dustbin of history” and forced him to look for an alternative ‘president’ in 2015.

The errands to ERC

With these precedents, the criterion of Junts, as EL PERIÓDICO pointed out, is to have no qualms about negotiating the accounts with the Catalan Socialists, in front of the CUP that “in the first curve they leave their partners in the gutter”. “We must leave the CUP out at once,” these voices insist, among which the most liberal sector of Junts stand out – logically -. But this criterion is widely shared. “Clearly we do not want equal countries, our country model is different”, they confirm in the parliamentary group.

The outer message is much more cautious. The Parliamentary Spokesperson, Monica Sales, in an appearance measure, has ensured that the CUP continues to be “the priority” but has launched a preventive message in case the independence majority of the investiture is dismantled: “the part that we sign on budgets we have fulfilled, now we have to see how [ERC y CUP] preserve this agreement prior to the one they made with us, to push forward the budgets“.

Pointing to the ‘president’

Sales has reiterated the message that the party spokeswoman already sent this Monday, Elsa Artadi: the ‘president’ Pere Aragonès it has to assume “its role and leadership to push the budgets forward.” The message in private is that if the CUP consumes its veto on the accounts, it will not be necessary to wait two years to celebrate a question of trust with the ‘president’ – as ERC and the anti-capitalists agreed – because trust will have already been resolved and lost now himself, just a few months after the inauguration.

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The vision in Junts favorable to disengage from dependence on the CUP has various motivations. One, the ideological. There are many in Puigdemont’s party who see logical proximity with the Socialists in strategic projects. Without going any further, the expansion of airport of Barcelona. Another motivation is tactics: this would leave Esquerra in the field furthest from the center of the board, rather cornered or dependent on the CUP or the ‘commons’, with whom Junts maintains an enormous political distance.