The vote could confirm the end of a cycle in Catalonia, even if the outcome is uncertain. From 10:00 to 19:00, members will cast their votes – ‘yes’, ‘no’ or abstention. At 19:30, the party leadership will appear at a press conference.
More than 8,500 ERC activists will decide this Friday in a consultation whether the twenty Republican deputies in parliament will support the socialist Salvador Illa as the new president of the Generalitat, a vote that could confirm the end of a cycle in Catalonia, although its outcome is uncertain.
The aversion that the PSC arouses among the Republican bases is added to four consecutive electoral failures, the divisions in the leadership of the organization and the controversy over the posters against the Maragall brothers, a sum of factors that make it remain in the air for the militants to support him preliminary agreement, which includes a new financing model for Catalonia.
Members cast their votes – ‘yes’, ‘no’ or abstention – from 10am to 7pm in a telematic consultation, but for which personal voting points are made possible.
Since the voting will take place electronically, the results will be known quickly. 7:30 p.m. The party leadership appears at a press conference.
The question asked is the following: Do you agree that Esquerra Republicana votes in favor of the inauguration of the Socialist candidate in exchange for fiscal sovereignty, the promotion and protection of the Catalan language, the National Convention for the resolution of the political conflict and the rest of the agreed measures?.
June 10th Oriol Junqueras confirmed his resignation as party president and parted ways with that of Marta Roviraa tandem that has been in command of ERC since 2011. Junqueras plans to rehabilitate the leadership of the formation at the congress on November 30, while Rovira, who heads the current leadership, will then leave the front line and bet that new faces will take over. The relay.
In this context, the party leadership ratified the preliminary agreement with the PSC, which in the hours that followed, leaders such as Rovira himself or the acting president Pere Aragonès publicly defended.
The current leadership expected an impetus from Junqueras that would facilitate the ‘yes’ of the bases, but the former president of the ERC has limited himself to publishing an ambiguous message in which he avoids taking a position on the document and says that he ‘understands’ the issue. “Doubts” about the militancy regarding the level of involvement of the socialists in what was signed.
In the event that the Republicans approve Illathe leader of the PSC must inform the Speaker of Parliament, Josep Rull, of his readiness for the inauguration. Rull could carry out the order consultation round monday and convene the Permanent Deputation – since we are in the first half of August – possibly for Tuesday.
It would then be the table of the Permanent Deputation, with a majority of the socialists and the ERC, that would determine the outcome Investiture session, which could take place on Wednesday.
On the contrary, Catalonia would be forced to do so an electoral replay if Republican forces overthrow the pre-agreement with the PSC, since the ERC leadership has assured that it will not reopen negotiations with the Socialists and Illa has ruled out seeking other alternative majorities (with Junts or with the support of PP and Vox).
He August 26 The clock would be automatically activated to repeat elections October 13 and that could lead to parliamentary arithmetic becoming even more diabolical than it is now. The uncertainty could be transferred to Congress and undermine the stability of the government Pedro Sanchez.
The ERC, which has no permanent candidate, would face the elections with bleak prospects and will probably hear renewed calls from the Junts to present the independence movement on a single list. Internally, the way would be cleared for Junqueras to reassert leadership of the formation in November.
Source: EITB
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