Junts challenges Feijóo to meet with Puigdemont: "If he has a serious offer for a motion of censure, let him explain it to us in Waterloo"

BarcelonaThe general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, has challenged Alberto Núñez Feijóo to meet with Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo if he wants to convince the party to join an instrumental motion of no confidence to bring down Pedro Sánchez and call elections. "If he has a serious offer, serious things are explained in meetings, and he [Feijóo] knows that meetings with Junts, with the highest leadership [...], must be held in Waterloo," he told El matí de Catalunya Ràdio.

Although the Junts members know that Feijóo is unlikely to take the step of traveling to Waterloo to meet with the former president in exile, Turull has not ruled out joining a Popular Party initiative, which would also include Vox, to put an end to the legislature. The Junts leader has argued that, given the avalanche of judicial cases affecting the PSOE, it is the Spanish president who should call elections. It would be the "quickest and easiest" option, he said, but he has opened the door to seeking an alternative.

However, he insisted that the details of the Popular Party's offer must be known, which Feijóo summarized this Monday on Telecinco as "decency and elections." "We need to know if he's serious or not, what he means by instrumental [motion], what period...", said Turull. And he reiterated that this motion offer should not be made through the media, but in meetings with his party and, specifically, with its leader, Puigdemont. "If he has something serious to explain, let him ask to see us," he concluded, emphasizing that, from the outset, they would not settle for an emissary from Feijóo.

After the weekend Sánchez vowed to resist at Moncloa, Feijóo proposed this Monday that Junts and the PNB join forces for an instrumental motion to bring down the coalition government, besieged by alleged corruption surrounding the PSOE, and to call elections "immediately". The opposition leader, in fact, expressed confidence about the possibility of his proposal moving forward. "It seems there is some movement, I am optimistic: from Vox to the PNB, including Junts, UPN, and Coalición Canaria," he said.

Feijóo's underlying reflection is that there are already 184 deputies in the Spanish lower house, eight more than needed for an absolute majority, who support an early general election in the State. And he considers that both Junts and the PNB would accept joining forces with Vox to achieve this, because it would be an instrumental maneuver, which would not involve the direct entry of the far-right into the Spanish government.