Despite winning the plurality of votes and Parliament seats, the conservatives of Spain are looking at the continuation of a leftist government as Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, appears ready to form a leftist coalition government with a slim 2-seat majority over the conservatives’ potential for a coalition government.
The deal is not yet a fait accompli as one potential member of the coalition, the pro-independence party, looks for concessions that will restore Catalonian self-determination lost under a government led by this same leftist PM.
From euractiv.com
The secretary general of Junts per Catalunya, Jordi Turull, dismissed on Monday the prospect of a possible endorsement by for Sánchez. “I don’t see an investiture anywhere right now”, he told Rac-1 radio.
Turull urged the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the rest of Catalan pro-independence forces, whose votes are decisive in forging majorities in the Spanish parliament, to take advantage of this opportunity to “rebuild strategic unity” and jointly propose conditions to Sánchez, which must include “amnesty and self-determination” for Catalonia.
With the conviction that all Catalan pro-independence parties hold the key to building a “progressive alternative majority” in Spain, ERC’s deputy secretary general, Marta Vilalta, on Monday pressed Junts x Catalunya to unite negotiating strengths in Madrid and avoid a blockade in Parliament.
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