A pact between the PSC and ERC has cleared the way for the new director of the Anti-Fraud Office. Both parliamentary groups proposed Judge Josep Tomàs Salas for the position on Tuesday at the Parliament's governing board, replacing Miguel Ángel Gimeno, whose term expired this September. This Thursday, the Catalan judge will appear before the committee on institutional affairs to explain his proposal before being voted on by the full Parliament, where it is expected that the majority that supported the investiture, including the Comuns party, will approve the nomination. Salas was a close collaborator of Gimeno when the latter was president of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC). To become the new director of the Antifraud Office, the support of three-fifths of the members of parliament is required in the first vote, that is, 81 members. However, if this is not achieved, a second vote would be held in which only an absolute majority of votes would be necessary, the 68 members of parliament who supported Salvador's investiture. Government spokesperson Silvia Paneque defended the selection of the new director, made "at the proposal of the president," which must be submitted to the "parliamentary process." "It is a suitable profile, and it will be the Parliament that defines and expresses its opinion on this matter," she emphasized, adding that there is a "majority" that can endorse it. Although the proposal was mandated to be made by the Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, Josep Tomàs Salas's name was put forward as part of an agreement between the PSC and ERC parties. According to the Socialists, the name was communicated to the main parliamentary groups, including Junts. However, Junts members have sent a letter to the president lamenting that the proposal came without "any consensus with the main opposition party": "He hasn't even opened a real space for negotiation on a decision of this magnitude," lamented the parliamentary group's president, Mònica Sales, at the mass. In any case, the spokesperson in the chamber, Salvador Vergés, made it clear at a press conference that Junts' discontent is not "with the name," but with "the methods" of the executive. Meanwhile, the leader of Comuns in the Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, stated that they will wait for the magistrate's appearance before deciding how to vote. "The name and CV were put forward before several parliamentary groups [...] Junts has decided to practice a flat-rate opposition," retorted the president of the PSC parliamentary group, Ferran Pedret.