The secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, has challenged the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to propose the instrumental motion of no confidence to remove Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa and call general elections to the party president, Carles Puigdemont, in Waterloo.
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“Mr. Feijóo knows that if he has a serious offer what he has to do is explain it in a meeting in Waterloo,” said the number two of the post-convergent party in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the day after the opposition leader raised the idea of an instrumental motion of no confidence especially to Junts and PNV, the two groups that have been the most severe with Sánchez in recent weeks and that have openly demanded elections. “If he has a proposal, we will listen,” he insisted, although he added that Junts would also set “conditions.” “We will be just as demanding with the PP as with the PSOE,” Turull clarified.
The post-convergent leader has revived one of the arguments the party used in the early stages of the legislature, when they indicated that they were willing to negotiate both with the PP and with the PSOE since the conditions for both would be the same. The Populars had already explored before the JxCat agreement and the socialists what Puigdemont’s group’s demands were in a meeting and dismissed going down a path that Ferraz did validate.
In any case, JxCat has made very clear in recent weeks that from asking Sánchez to return the word to the citizens and to hold elections to supporting a motion of no confidence with PP and Vox “there is a world,” and that with Santiago Abascal’s organization – popular accusation in the procés trial – there is nothing to be done.
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Turull has justified the possible presence of Feijóo in Waterloo due to the “democratic anomaly” that, according to the post-convergents, means that the judiciary refuses to apply the Amnesty law to Puigdemont, among others, and has made it clear that if it is “a serious proposal it has to be led by the interested party.” With this move, JxCat removes the pressure from the Populars, who have progressively increased their interest in the motion and now try to pass the responsibility to other parties.
Likewise, the secretary general of Junts has reproached the PP leader for making serious proposals through the media instead of meeting with them. “We are serious; we do not listen to offers through the media,” he concluded.
All in all, Turull has maintained that for Junts “the fastest way” to end a legislature they consider exhausted is for the president of the Government to dissolve the Cortes and call elections. “We are not here to prop up one or the other,” he concluded.
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