“I will not negotiate with any right-wing extremist formation”

BarcelonaEx-president and Junts el 12-M candidate Carles Puigdemont has ruled out “negotiations” with the far-right Aliança Catalana after the parliamentary elections. “I will never negotiate with any ultra-right formation,” he said this Monday in an interview with the More 324 from TV3 when they asked him directly about the party led by Sílvia Orriols. However, he has assured that he does not want to talk about this party, since in Catalonia they are “talking beyond their capabilities”: “There is someone who has an interest in inflating this,” he said, without directly addressing anyone else refer agree Anyone who has no interest in this party becoming big is “in the process of independence”.

In this sense, he has criticized that the PSC’s candidate, Salvador Illa, is pressuring him to abandon pacts with the Catalan Alliance. “I want him to be clear when he talks about Vox,” he said, adding: “[El PSOE] He voted with Vox to lift my immunity in the European Parliament and he also spoke out against the interests of Catalonia.” According to Puigdemont, there are those in Catalonia who do what François Mitterrand did in France when he called “wings Jean-Marie Le Pen’s party should “split the right-wing voice” and harm Jacques Chirac: “Look now where the French Socialist Party is and where the National Front is.”

Hand extended to the left

Although President Pere Aragonès has started a hand-to-hand fight with Puigdemont, Junts will prefer to bypass the Republicans and emphasize the hand outstretched to the left. During the interview, he assured that the majority of independence supporters must now be “brought together” and all sovereign actors must once again sit at the table to revise the strategy.

In this way, he refused to respond directly to Pere Aragonès’ accusations – “Unity does not come from telling the president to do the same,” he said – and reiterated that he would call the first person , if he has options to build a majority to be invested will be for the left candidate. Instead, he has insisted he will not negotiate anything with the PSC. “I will not sit down to negotiate with Illa or Sánchez because they will know what they have to do,” he said, reiterating that if Illa makes a pact at the last minute, there will be such a pact What Jaume Collboni did in Barcelona has consequences for the Spanish legislature.