Direct and with a binary answer: this will be the question to the Junts members about the split with the PSOE.

Barcelona"Do you agree with the proposal of the national executive leadership to terminate the investiture agreement with the PSOE due to its repeated failure to fulfill its commitments?" This is the question that Junts members will have to answer, with a "yes" or a "no", to validate the agreement. the break with the socialists that the party leadership agreed to yesterdayThis was explained by the Secretary General of Junts, Jordi Turull, in an interview this morning on RAC1. The question proposed by the leadership has already received the support of 93.36% of the votes of the party's national council, which met tonight, which will allow the voting of members to begin this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. and end at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, when the results will be made public.

One of the issues that has remained pending throughout these almost two years of pact between the PSOE and Junts is the meeting between Carles Puigdemont and Pedro Sánchez. In fact, it was one of the demands of the council members that the Socialists have not publicly ruled out, but they have not set a date for either. This Tuesday, Turull stated that he no longer considers it necessary because the meeting "does not resolve" the situation. In early September, Salvador Illa did travel to Brussels to meet with Carles Puigdemont, a meeting that was interpreted as a "political amnesty" for the former president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) and raised the question of whether it was a prelude to a meeting with Pedro Sánchez.

The breakup decided this Monday by the leadership involves not approving the state budget and also requiring Junts to abandon the talks in Switzerland, where they held meetings with the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) with the participation of an international mediator. In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, stated that the mere existence of this mediation space is "historic" because it recognized the conflict with the desire to "reach an agreement between the Catalan nation and the Spanish nation." Now, after 19 meetings, Nogueras has asserted that "it has surely served to demonstrate that there is no way to resolve this conflict with any Spanish party."

The rupture between the PSOE and Junts will also take the form of opposition to any legislative proposal from the Spanish government in Congress, except for specific measures that improve Catalonia: "If it goes well for Catalonia, let's talk; if not, goodbye," Puigdemont said yesterday from Perpignan. In this regard, Nogueras said that the Socialists will find out how Junts will vote in Congress itself: "What we are not going to do is continue wasting time negotiating with the PSOE to close agreements that then end up not being fulfilled," he noted.

ERC asks what "breaking up" means.

For its part, ERC doesn't see "much novelty" in Junts' move. The spokesperson for the Republicans in Parliament, Ester Capella, asked at a press conference: "Breaking off relations, exactly, what does that mean that hasn't been done until now?" Therefore, Capella believes that what Puigdemont's party is doing now is "what ERC is doing," that is, "there are no new agreements until there is compliance" with the pacts already reached. The Republican spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, was harsher, asserting in statements to the media that the Junts members "are very tiresome" and that "the natural ideological space" that belongs to them is that of the PP and Vox because "they are right-wing." She also sought to criticize Junts' rhetoric in recent years, based on the fact that ERC had been a partner of the PSOE "in exchange for nothing," and took a swipe at Puigdemont's party: "I ask my party to have the pride and memory to point out and confront what Junts is doing now," she said.

From the CUP (United Left of Catalonia), MP Laure Vega criticized the Junts members for opposing in Congress "all those measures that have to do with expanding workers' rights," and pointed out that Monday's move makes "no difference" to the "usual fish-in-a-bucket" policy, as Vega asserted. The Comuns (Commons) have expressed themselves in the same vein. "There are those who confuse country with party," said David Cid, the party's spokesperson in the Catalan Parliament, who asserted that Junts is "building the image that a majority in Congress is unviable," which he believes "brings us ever closer to a PP and Vox majority." From the right, the Catalan PP has challenged Junts to engage in "real politics" and vote in favor of its proposals in the Catalan Parliament "to lower taxes in Catalonia," said the conservative spokesperson in the Catalan Parliament, Juan Fernández.