The PP will support Junts' vote of confidence and warns that withdrawing it is endorsing Sánchez

The PP has shown its cards today and announced that it will support the non-legislative proposal of Junts for the President of the Government to submit to a vote of confidence. The announcement by the Popular Party comes after the Government has pulled the strings in recent days by proposing new concessions to the pro-independence party, with the intervention of the international mediator, to try to deactivate the JxCat initiative. The secretary general of the PP of Catalonia, Santi Rodríguez, has indicated that the proposal will be supported "since Pedro Sánchez does not have the confidence of the PP." And he has stressed that if Carles Puigdemont backs down, it will be clear that it is he and his party that supports the president.

For the PP, it is clear that Sánchez does not have the confidence of the parliamentary arch at the moment, a scenario that would be reflected again, it is indicated, if the post-convergents finally decide to put the initiative to a vote, which should be debated tomorrow and voted on Wednesday. While the pro-independence party makes a decision, the PP has warned that although the initiative has little scope and is an element of pressure, "Puigdemont's threats do not usually last more than eight seconds."

Regarding the negotiations between the Government and the Generalitat, which today are holding a new meeting of the Bilateral Commission, the PP has declined to attend the meeting called by the minister Albert Dalmau to address the issues on the agenda. Rodríguez has explained that the bilateral meeting “is a meeting of socialists with socialists to discuss the demands that ERC and Junts put on the table and thus remain in power”. The Popular group informed the Government on Friday that it would not attend the minister's call, understanding that the content had already been agreed. Likewise, it has been indicated that the negotiations are aimed at the “dismantling” of the State in Catalonia, with the transfer of the railway operator, the Tax Agency or “the replacement of the Police and the Civil Guard”. Political decisions, said the general secretary, that “do not entail any benefit” for Catalan citizens.

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In its analysis of the political scenario, the PP in Catalonia also congratulated the winner of the German elections, Friedrich Merz, of the CDU/CSU, a party that it recalled belongs to the EPP. In this regard, the PP wanted to indicate the foreseeable predisposition of the Social Democrats to form a government with the conservatives. A party with a sense of State, said the general secretary, “unlike what happens in Spain with the PSOE”.