Jovent Republicà, the youth wing of the ERC, has decided to say a “critical yes” to the investiture, which will become reality with the vote in favour of its sole deputy in the Catalan Parliament, Mar Besses.
Jovent Republicà, the youth wing of ERC, has decided to support the investiture of the socialist candidate Salvador Illa with the vote of his only deputy in the Catalan parliament, Mar Besses. It is a “critical yes”, as the Republican youth have explained. In this way, the absolute majority of 68 seats is guaranteed for the socialist at the investiture.
Last week 77% of the ERC combativeness with voting rights (6,349 people) spoke in the party’s telematics consultation and 53.5% (3,397) supported the agreement concluded with the PSC.
However, Jovent Republicà, the youth organisation linked to the ERC, had not guaranteed until Monday that its deputy, Mar Besses, would support the investiture despite winning the ‘yes’ vote.
The strong support of the ERC forces to invest in Illa was an impetus for the current leadership of the party, headed by Marta Rovirasince the organization’s senior staff had defended the preliminary agreement with the socialists.
The aforementioned agreement with the PSC, presented in a 25-page document, envisages “single financing” for Catalonia – which the Republicans compare to an “economic agreement” – as well as measures to strengthen Catalan culture from the public administration or to make progress in the fight against the Catalan government in the resolution of the political conflict.
Jovent Repubilcà believes that the agreement with the PSC includes the following “some positive elements”partly because it ‘modifies’ the socialists’ more right-wing postulates, but this does not prevent the organisation from harbouring a ‘clear distrust’ as to whether the agreement will be honoured.
So Besses will have a “hard, clear and powerful” opposition and wants to position itself as “the real guarantee of compliance with the agreements”.
Besses himself assessed the decision of the Republican youth after a meeting last Monday: “We are giving a sign of confidence in the good agreement that has been reached. But Mr. Illa must be very clear: we do not trust him. consequences”, he states in a note in X. “And, as always, a lesson from the militancy of the Jovent Republicà: commitment, maturity and intelligence”, he concludes.
The representatives of Jovent Republicà in the Catalan Chamber have voted differently from the rest of the ERC group in the past, but they have never done so in a context as transcendent as that of an investiture.
With the approval of Jovent Republicà, and after the ‘yes’ of the ERC bases, Illa sees the presidency of the Generalitat coming closer, although he will have to overcome another obstacle, as former President Carles Puigdemont has promised that he will return to Catalonia for the inauguration despite the risk of being arrested, which could change the whole scenario.
Source: EITB
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