“ERC must negotiate and reach agreement with the one it respects”

The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has said that after this Sunday’s elections, his party “must negotiate and reach an agreement with the party that respects it.”

In an interview with Radio Euskadi, the Republican representative said that whatever happens in the elections, they point to a victory for the PSC and that the independentistas will not reach an absolute majority, “the pact between different is the present and the future“.

In this sense, and in view of a possible blockade situation, he added that his task is to reach an agreement, and that “good wins” in scenarios where the left fails to reach agreement and people have to go to the polls repeatedly.

Rufián has admitted to leading the Catalan government The ‘management’ ‘punishes’ them confronted with the outcome of the elections, and this is even more true in their case because they govern ‘alone and as a minority’.

Moreover, he recalled that the trend in the last elections is that “the historical voter has stayed at home,” and that the “emotionality” which they have relied on in recent years in Catalonia for these elections, was not possible because “running the government is more complicated”.

Rufián recalled that the ERC’s central proposal has been “for quite some time” one “fairer financing” for Catalonia, “without harming anyone and without confronting other communities.” In this sense, he said that the leader of the PP himself, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “called for a change in regional financing” when he was president in Galicia.

Regarding the decision of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, to reflect for five days and decide to continue in office, he said that “you have to put the changes into words.” what he plans to do to democratize the state.