The CUP endorses pre-agreement with ERC and will vote yes to Aragonès investiture
Members still seek improvement to pact with ERC
BarcelonaThe members of the eleven organisations that integrate the Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP) have decided to endorse the agreement with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) and to facilitate that the latter's candidate be invested in the first round, ARA has learnt. The yes has been imposed widely with 564 votes in favor (59.31%), by 367 against (38.59%) and 20 blank votes (2.10%). Thus, the nine CUP MPs will vote affirmative this Friday to the investiture of Aragonés. As this first question stated, the parliamentary group commits itself to evaluate the agreements reached with a schedule and control sessions.
Despite this majority in favour of the agreement, members consider that the agreement is not enough and claim, as reflected in the second point of the vote, to try to improve the pact in the coming days if the investiture is delayed as expected by the refusal of Junts to forge a government with the ERC for the moment. While 121 (12.91%) believe that the pre-agreement is enough, 802 (85.59%) do not, while only 14 militants or sympathisers (1.49%) voted blank.
In the third question of the vote, members have declined to facilitate the investiture in the event that the pre-agreement is overturned, despite the fact that this point is no longer of any importance now. Be that as it may, the vote has also been tight: 437 votes against, 426 in favour (47.12%) and 41 blank votes (4.54%), which denotes CUP's will to facilitate the implementation of the new executive.
MP Eulàlia Reguant has stressed that the pre-agreement is "a starting point that allows progress, but not a point of arrival" and stressed that "it is not a government agreement, but a minimum agreement so that there is a change of cycle". "Our role is to push the Government to generate clash scenarios," she added to explain what will be CUP's role. In this sense, Reguant has pointed out that "we must go beyond" and continue "working to accumulate forces in the democratic confrontation" that her party defends.
The number 3 of the list has also warned that if the agreements are not met, they will take the decisions they deem appropriate, opening the door to stop being the stable partner of the new executive, bearing in mind that they have also agreed to a confidence vote halfway through the legislature of the future president of the Generalitat. "We are not giving any blank cheque, but we cannot lower the starting point," she explained, warning that they will not accept changes that substantially modify the pre-agreement with ERC. In any case, Reguant has called on JxCat to sign the agreement. "Junts has the responsibility to join this agreement to serve the country and we ask En Comú if they want to continue being the regime's "crutch" or an engine of change," she added.
