Junts members endorse breaking with Sánchez with 87% support
66.29% of members participated in the consultation on the proposal to break with the PSOE, which was spearheaded by Puigdemont.
BarcelonaCarles Puigdemont's decision to say enough is enough and break with the PSOE It has already been endorsed by the Junts membership. The former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts was personally involved; he led the process of breaking off relations with the Spanish government headed by Pedro Sánchez, and his explicit request has received overwhelming support from the members. Specifically, 86.98% of Junts members supported it, with a 66.29% turnout. Both figures are almost identical to those in the November 2023 vote on the Brussels agreement with the Socialists that protected the Yeah In exchange for Sánchez's investiture, he offered amnesty and other commitments, as well as a negotiating space in Switzerland that has since been dismantled. On that occasion It received the support of 86.16% of the members with a 67% turnout, in what was supposed to be a grade change that has turned into a failure.
The question The consultation, which concluded this Thursday, was concise and assessed, in binary terms, the degree of agreement with "the proposal from the national executive leadership to terminate the investiture agreement with the PSOE due to repeated breaches of its commitments." From 10:00 AM last Wednesday until 6:00 PM on Thursday, the online ballot box was open to validate a move that demonstrates the PSOE has lost its parliamentary majority, but which does not force the country into elections. What it will mean is that Junts will not negotiate anything further with the national government and will simply vote for or against as they see fit, "for Catalonia," without compromise. However, this does not imply a motion of no confidence against Sánchez, spearheaded by the PP, which the Junts leadership has, in fact, rejected numerous times, most recently this week by its general secretary, Jordi Turull.
Puigdemont argued internally that the break with the PSOE was necessary due to the lack of progress in multiple areas, from the widespread non-application of the amnesty to the leaders of October 1st to the official status of Catalan in Europe or the failed transfer of immigration powers due to the opposition of the Catalan regionalists – which, now, the Spanish president has proposed unblocking in the Spanish chamberPuigdemont's internal defense of the break was unanimously endorsed by the members of the national executive committee, and, from Perpignan, in an appearance where he did not take any questions, he launched the arguments to persuade the party members to also support his position, based on the idea that the PSOE "may hold positions of power, but will not be able to govern." After the results were published, the Junts leader congratulated himself, highlighting the party's "strength" and its commitment to "difficult decisions" in an "environment" he sees as dominated by "populism."
Similar to 2023, antagonistic to 2022
In this case, as in the consultation two years ago regarding the pact with the PSOE, there has been no internal division, with a mere 10.22% of votes against and 2.8% blank ballots. A very different case from the internal consultation in October 2022 on whether or not it was advisable to remain in the Catalan coalition government with ERC led by Pere Aragonès: in that case, those critical of the government's departure, with a classic Convergència i Unió (CiU) ideology, organized themselves and gathered 42.39% of members opposed to the operation, compared to 55.73% in favor, in a divided party that turned out en masse, with a 79.1% participation rate. However, now there has been no significant movement against Puigdemont's proposal. A decision that, in any case, the Spanish government has sought to downplay, clinging to "dialogue" and the practice of proceeding vote by vote. But the head of the state government, He opted for irony this Thursday because he doesn't "quite" understand Junts' move to the opposition. when "they have always said that they were already there" and has confronted the senator Eduard Pujol for his "paternalism" which he has framed as a "conservative habit".
