The Junts landing in state companies sets fire with Esquerra | News from Catalonia

Two exact months have passed since Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras They were seen together and smiling in Belgiumwithin a car with registration 1-O-2017, an allusion to the independence referendum plan that both planned when they shared government. That meeting in Waterloo, after a long season without gathering, sought to appear a thaw of the relationship between them and, by extension, grease the treatment between Junts and ERC. They issued a statement appealing to « promote coordinated work spaces » and « start a new stage of relationship. » It is not necessary that cordiality will be set as one of the priorities. Junts and Esquerra have raised the tone of their cross attacks, even with insults and contempt such as « rat » or « undocumented », following the treatment that both formations maintain with the government. The game that Carles Puigdemont commands accuses his domestic rival of agreeing on useless transfers for Catalonia And from ERC it is denounced that post -convergentes use the accusatory finger with one hand while, with the other, they maneuver to place related positions in companies such as Renfe or Aena. The fight between Catalan independence involves another shaking to the equilibrium game that supports the legislature.

Esquerra criticizes that Junts uses the ability to influence the government to place people of trusted in business management positions with state participation. Puigdemont’s party has endorsed the economist Eduard Gràcia in the Renfe and Renfe Board of Directors to the exconseller Ramon Tremosa in Aena. In addition, it supports the journalist Miquel Calçada in the Council of RTVE and Pere Soler as counselor in the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC). Soler was general director of the Mossos d’Esquadra While the referendum of 1-O was prepared and now, since its new position, it has the possibility of being the protagonist in another process with a strong impact in Catalonia: the BBVA OPA on Banco Sabadell. The CNMC Supervisa What conditions the Basque entity has to meet to be able to absorb the Catalan bankwhich has recently returned its headquarters to Vallès after seven years in Alicante.

SOURCES OF THE JUNTS management defend that « having people where the power decisions are made is interesting and important, provided that it is for the benefit of the interests of the country. » It points that “it is not about placing anyone to take advantage of a position. We did not do a October 1 and we have the President Puigdemont seven years in exile to be able to place people. If it were that there are ways to do it directly and it is much cheaper. ”

This Thursday, During the shareholders board that the bank celebrated in Sabadellit was about staging the frontal rejection that, from Catalonia, generates the BBVA OPA. « From Spanish banks, Sabadell is the Catalan Bank, » said President Josep Oliu during his speech. The Employer Foment del Treball, The same as Pimecthey are fully positioned against the OPA. In the Board of Shareholders, the political presence monopolized by the mayor of Sabadell, Marta Farrés, but some representatives of the Catalan economic and business sector approached the event. During a conversation prior to the beginning of the act, one of those representatives elucidated what possibilities the Sabadell has to block the BBVA offensive: « If Junts were a predictable party, he could urge the government to stop the OPA and, in return, it gives it stability in the legislature. But, with Junts, one never knows what to stick to. »

The lousy functioning of nearby trains in Catalonia, with recurring breakdowns and permanent delayshas put the management of Renfe and Adif in the focus of today and political anger. The Minister of Territory, Sílvia Paneque, faces resignation requests claiming that it is not appropriate to « find guilty. » But, beyond activating criticism against the Government of the Generalitat for the lack of solutions to the mess, the trains act as a spark to turn on another fight between Junts and Esquerra. The Republicans agreed with the Government the transfer of the Rodalies service to the Generalitat and have validated the terms of the negotiation with the Machinist Union, contrary to the transfer, to achieve the distrust of a protest strike. Junts is given with the idea that, in the end, the change from the hands of Rodalies’s competitions is stone cardboard and ineffective to promote any valid change for users, about 400,000 daily. Josep Rius, spokesman for Junts and Vice President of the Formation, denounces that « the pressure of the unions has put a transfer that has never been integral. »

« We are crushed for negotiating Rodalies’s transfer while putting their friends in the Renfe Board of Directors, » said Gabriel Rufian, ERC spokesman in the Congress of Deputies. Before, Rufián had replicated with the emoticon of a rat the social networks statements of the deputy of Junts, Josep Maria Cruset, where he reproached Esquerra to have voted against a proposal of law against occupations. Francesc de Dalmases, deputy of Junts in the Parliament, accused Rufián of being « an undocumented without studies » and had not been able to finish reading a book in his entire life.