Junqueras turns four months at the head of ERC: waiting for amnesty and the debate about agreing with the PSC | News from Catalonia

A little over four months ago that the tandem oriol Junqueras – Elisenda Alamany rose with The triumph in the vote to choose the new dome of Esquerra Republicana (ERC). He Exvice President Xavier Godàs was imposed for ten percentage points, having to face the challenge of laying a deeply divided training. The balance of this time has lights and shadows. The brand new direction He managed to approve his presentations at the Marz AssemblyOr, where he neutralized his detractors, and is now waiting for the voting of the regional addresses. In that last phase of the very long Congress of ERC, the eyes are placed in Barcelona, ​​where the entrance to the Municipal Executive of the PSC is on the table. Junqueras, in addition, is waiting for what happens with his amnesty, which could open the door to be the presidential to the Generalitat.

The weekly meeting of the Permanent Republicans, last Monday, evaluated the performance of these months. « We are the new ERC, the one who says what he does and does what he says, » the Vice -Secretary of Communication of the party, Isaac Albert, said at a press conference. It is a phrase that somehow tries to mark distances with the previous dome, which until June last year shared Junqueras and former Secretary General Marta Rovira.

Perhaps the first folder that had to solve the tandem Junqueras – Alamany was that of laying a game razed by the internal struggle. While from the address they emphasize that « ambition and predictability » are the signs of the new stage, the assessment made by critics is very different. « Zero enthusiasm, militancy is still waiting, » believes Godàs. While in the voting where the new address was settled, participation exceeded 80% of the census (just over 8,000 census militants), in the voting of the three presentations, in March, Only about 700 arms were counted on average.

Beyond the apparent demobilization, the texts prepared by the Junqueras team achieved overwhelming percentages of support, more than 89%. In part, the negotiating capacity of all amendments helped, but also the decision of the promoter group of the candidacy headed by Godàs to withdraw his own and that they sought to limit the mandate and political ambitions of both Junqueras and Alamany. His intention was to make clear the limit of mandates at the head of the party and make organic positions with institutional. In the surroundings of Junqueras, as in Junts, they hope that before summer the constitutional Exvice President It has the free path to at least try to reach the Palau de la Generalitat.

After the decision of the lists that struggled against that of Junqueras not to participate in the writing of the presentations, the commitment not to extend the pulse in their vote was understood in some way as a wink to the approach. But everything jumped through the air with the presentation of the report of The so -called Truth Commission with which Junqueras wanted to clarify the existence of structure B that allowed the denigrant posters on the Maragall. Those close to Rovira lived as an affront and a drain, the consummation of Junqueras’s personal revenge against part of his former collaborators.

The presentations, thanks to an amendment of the former deputy environment at the Joan Tardà Congress, set a framework of « relationship with Catalan socialism that combines confrontation and collaboration. » Albert, in fact, wanted the center of the Balance of the four -month period last Monday. « We have marked the agenda and have forced the socialists to move, » he explained. The examples: that they were avoided in the Parliament to approve A regulation of seasonal rentals that before rejected – they vote against the proposal of the then Government by Pere Aragonès – or finally begins to walk the transfer of Rodalies or the debt of the debt of the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (Fla), two pending commitments from the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in December 2023.

« We are an ERC that does not get angry and that makes its votes and experience to reach good agreement for the country, » Albert defended. Godàs sees it differently. « Everything that the new address sells as its gain is what was already predetermined, » he says, in reference to the investiture pact that Rovira sealed those of Salvador Illa. « There are elements of political confrontation with the socialists who are not addressed, such as the end of the political conflict, » he adds. And there is an example: the implementation of the Conflict Resolution Convention that the Parliament had to vote or the amnesty monitoring office.

From the ERC direction they respond that this convention will see the light soon and deny sessions to the PSC. The confrontation and collaboration, for example, will live its stress test with the decision that the new direction of the Republican Federation in Barcelona takes on whether or not to enter the executive of Jaume Collboni. Although this option has lost weight after a year in the drawer- Junqueras himself defended it only one year ago and the secretary general was his ideologist- the relationship is the socialists seems to change third. So much so that on February 22 the first photo of both arrived in the Palau. The negotiation of credit supplements and Catalan budgets of 2026 will be the cotton test for that relationship.