In a joint note, both sides stressed “the need to mark from the beginning of the legislature a path for compliance with the commitments that Pedro Sánchez and his government have entered into with Euskadi and Catalonia.”
The PNV and the Junts agreed this Friday to coordinate in Congress to guarantee the “compliance” by the President, Pedro Sánchez, and his government with the “highly political” agreements he has concluded with both parties in support of his inauguration.
The PNV and Junts delegations held a meeting at the PNV headquarters in Bilbao, which lasted two hours, with the President of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar; the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turul; the spokespersons of both parties in Congress, Aitor Esteban (PNV) and Miriam Nogueras (Together); the person responsible for the organization of the PNV, Joseba Aurrekoetxea; and the President of the Junts Group in the Catalan Parliament, Albert Batet.
In a joint note after the meeting, PNV and Junts emphasized the “need to mark, from the beginning of the parliamentary term, a path of compliance with the commitments undertaken by Pedro Sánchez and his government with Euskadi and Catalonia”, for which they will commit themselves. “in a coordinated manner” in Congress.
Thus, during the meeting they analyzed “the joint mechanisms that can be established between both groups” so that all government initiatives “respect the Basque and Catalan self-government and are aligned with the shared objective of promoting the well-being of the population.” promote’. citizens of Euskadi and Catalonia”.
Yeltzales and Catalan nationalists have expressed their support for the amnesty for those involved in the trial because “it will contribute to de-judicializing politics in Catalonia and returning the Catalan conflict to the political sphere, a sphere from which it should never have left.” In this sense, the PNV has once again assured the Junts that its votes will support the adoption of the above-mentioned standard.
This meeting, the first official meeting with Junts at the PNV headquarters, takes place after the two trips Ortuzar made to Belgium to meet the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont during the negotiations with the PSOE on the inauguration.
End of the distancing and alliance against ERC-EH Bildu
In this way, the estrangement between the two parties, which began after Urkullu’s mediation with Puigdemont in 2017 failed to avoid the unilateral declaration of independence and the application of Article 155 of the Constitution, comes to an end.
Furthermore, the coordination agreed today in Bilbao allows the PNV and the Junts to counter the alliance that ERC and EH Bildu, their respective main electoral rivals, have maintained since the last term in the Cortes Generales.
Source: EITB
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