Telematic meetings for the negotiations of the presidency
The Candidature d’Unitat Popular (CUP) has announced the holding of online meetings as part of the negotiations for an eventual investiture of the president-in-exile and candidate of Junts per Catalunya for the presidency of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont. The candidate of the anti-capitalist formation, Laia Estrada, has revealed in an interview on La2’s Cafè d’Idees program that these meetings will be telematic and will have the participation of other leaders from both parties, although she has not provided the names .
Estrada has explained that the decision to hold the remote meetings is due to organizational problems and has highlighted the need to dialogue with Puigdemont to understand his proposals to achieve the abstention of the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC). He has also made it clear that the CUP is not prepared to facilitate a government that restores the old Convergence and has warned the Republican Left that it will not join a hypothetical tripartite party.
Negotiations by the Parliament Bureau
In addition to the meetings with Puigdemont, the leader of the CUP in Parliament has explained in an interview with El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio that they have already met with Esquerra Republicana and Junts per Catalunya, and that they have yet to meet with the common The aim of these meetings is to close an agreement to achieve a Parliament Bureau that guarantees the rights of deputies and the sovereignty of the Catalan chamber, preventing the PSC from assuming the presidency of the governing body.
The CUP considers it preferable that the presidency of the Bureau falls to a member of the Republican Left and has made it clear that it would not look favorably on the presidency of the Parliament in the hands of the Catalan socialists. Thus, the anti-capitalist formation is looking for a Table that represents the left and independence, prioritizing this option above any other alternative.
