The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, accused the Consell per la República, a private entity chaired by Carles Puigdemont, of the failure of the coalition between Esquerra and Junts per Catalunya and, in an interview with TV3, said that ” the Consell per “The Republic cannot be above the Government. »

Aragonès stressed that “I have made proposals for them to continue to be part of the government”, but he pointed out that “they have put on the table other issues that are not in the agreement of the government”. “What I will never do is subordinate the institutions of Catalonia to an external entity like the Consell por la República,” he condemned.

“The decisions that lead to the departure of Junts from the Government are decisions of Junts” because “I do not propose an audit, a consultation and a question of confidence which were not provided for in the investiture agreement”.

Father Aragonès urged Carles Puigdemont to “talk to him” about his role in Govern’s crisis and accused him of “disparaging the institutions” when at 1-O he said “president, go do autonomy and I will do independence”. “Part of the Junts which from the start did not want this government to move forward,” he lamented.

He also demanded the “institutional respect” of Junts because “the legitimacy of the institutions does not depend on the presence or not of your party” and stressed that Laura Borràs “should have given up the presidency of Parliament for a long time, since she has been imputed”.

The president, on the other hand, declared that “the fact that Junts has decided to leave the government does not in any way mean that we are abandoning the struggle for independence” and demanded “an effort” from the pro-independence formations to “share” a strategy.

Aragonés defended the need to persist in “resolving the political conflict in the state” and reiterated the defense of a law of clarity, following the pattern of Canada with Quebec, because “we will all agree that we must establish certain rules of the game”. “It is the councilors who, together with the rest of the government, will make the referendum possible”, he underlined.

Finally, he said that “it seems unlikely to me” that Junts will not support “its budgets”, drawn up by Minister Jaume Giró. “The project that was good a week ago, is still good today”, and he was in favor of their approval with the formations that “supported the nomination or in the last budget”, that is to say say Together, CUP and Communes.