The President of Parliament has announced that no candidate to preside over the Generalitat has sufficient support to be invested. He has therefore decided to convene a plenary meeting to activate the two-month countdown before an investiture will take place. first, he will engage in electoral repetition.
The Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Rullannounced this Wednesday that no candidate to preside over the Generalitat has enough support to be invested. Therefore, it has decided to convene a plenary session on June 26 in which it will dictate a resolution to activate the two-month countdown will be an investiture, and if not, new elections will take place.
This was declared this Wednesday in an institutional statement in the Catalan Chamber, after meeting with representatives of all political forces and verifying that the two main candidates, Salvador Illa (PSC) and Carles Puigdemont (Junts)they want more time to negotiate possible support.
Given this situation, Rull will issue a resolution on June 26, which will trigger a two-month countdown for the candidates to try to gather the necessary support with deadline August 26and if no candidate obtains investiture, elections will be automatically called.
The First Secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has expressed to Rull his willingness to submit his candidacy for an inauguration of the presidency of the Generalitat, but has asked him “more time” to negotiate with ERC and Comuns.
“I explained to him that I am working to gain the support of the progressive majority in the Chamber, consisting of my political formation, the ERC and the Comuns,” he said at a press conference after a meeting with Rull in the context of the elections. round of contacts before the investiture, where he also stated verbatim that the progressive majority is the only one who can make the legislature viable.
The group of JxCat He also informed the speaker of the parliament that the former president of the Generalitat and elected deputy, Carles Puigdemont, wants to run for investiture as the next president. “but not now”.
“We have every intention of going to the inauguration, but not now. We are looking for support and negotiating to get a majority. Once we have it, we will pass it on to President Rull and ask him to convene the plenary session of Parliament. Parliament,” he assured the chairman of the JxCat faction, Albert Batet.
For her part, the ERC spokesperson said: Marta Vilaltasaid during the meeting with Rull that there is no agreement to vote for a candidate for the investiture, and has warned that “no one can claim an accession” of the ERC to the PSC or Junts candidates: ‘They will have to negotiate’.
According to Vilalta it is “unheard of” and an “irresponsibility” that the two parties that have received the most deputies and that want to present candidates for the inauguration “do not want to present their projects to the country” during the plenary session scheduled for next week.
In this sense, he has warned that wanting to gain time to negotiate should not be a pretext “Hide and don’t show your face” and recalled that the current acting president, Pere Aragonès, acted very differently and wanted to submit to an investiture debate, although he had not yet received all the necessary support.
Source: EITB
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