Duran Lleida discarded Catalan elections in the first quarter … – La Rioja

Duran Lleida discarded Catalan elections in the first quarter … – La Rioja

A year after the pro-referendum parties be agreed date and the question of the request, Artur Mas and Oriol Junqueras must decide whether elections immediately. They are therefore faced with a new obstacle, a new search out for the maze, quite possibly the last and final.

The situation, in any case, is very different to that of a year ago. The unity of the sovereigntist front blew up shortly before 9-N and now Junqueras Mas and try to restore the vase with a view to holding regional elections in the first quarter of next year, they want to turn into a referendum on independence and on the verge of separation process Spain.

However, the president of the Generalitat and the leader of Esquerra still do not agree, in the formula to attend those elections as the roadmap to achieve statehood. After meeting on Wednesday they plan to do so in the coming days, this time with the added burden of that as delaying the covenant, the pressure increases. “We are forced to agree,” said Marta Rovira, number two ERC.

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Instead, Union leader, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, does not believe that CiU and ERC end up bringing their positions and yesterday predicted that there will be elections in the first quarter, as claimed by Republicans, the CUP and the Catalan National Congress (ANC). “I have the feeling that every day seems more clear that there will be in February or March,” said Duran, who reloaded against his partner, convergent and spokesman for the Generalitat, Francesc Homs, a new sign that the waters low riots in CiU. According to the Democrat, while Esquerra rejects the proposed singleton list Mas, the president of the Generalitat should “try to exhaust» in office until 2016.

President of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, ​​Miquel Valls also claimed the convergent leader to pull the legislature because if you can not endanger the exit from the crisis. Since independence civil society, on the contrary, they intensified their pressure on the president of the Generalitat and Junqueras to agree and there before the municipal elections of May. Otherwise, the ANC will launch the mechanism does best, street mobilization, to return to “require” that the Catalan Mas convene immediately.

Budgets

All eyes are on Mas and Junqueras, which on Monday may shed some light on his intentions in the debate over budgets and also in the electoral calendar as both issues are intertwined. A year ago, the ERC endorsed the Catalan government to approve the accounts of the consultation, while this time the Republicans Swedes do and use budgets to pressure Mas. Your trump card is that if there is no commitment to early elections, reject the bills and put in a bind the autonomous government.

The board process also plays in the offices of the Ministry of Economy. On Wednesday the first debate in the Catalan Parliament on the budgets of 2015, in which amendments will be voted all that, for now, all groups have presented less Esquerra be held. Republicans could do on Monday, leaving at Mas alone and forced overtime. Therefore, CiU still leaving open the door PSC if the pact with ERC explodes and nationalist federation is forced to seek the support of the Socialists.