A motion going nowhere
PDeCAT withdraws its motion urging talks without conditions but within the law, with Nogueras claiming PSOE has no real intention to negotiate
A complete about face in Spain’s Parliament yesterday when PDeCAT withdrew the motion that it had proposed, agreed to by the PSOE, which urged Pedro Sánchez’s executive to dialogue “without” impositions or impediments, “within the framework of current law”.
Hours after the debate in the lower house had been held, the vice president of PDeCAT, Míriam Nogueras, announced last night that they had withdrawn the motion, outraged by the parallel vote of the Socialists in the Senate to prevent any attempt of referendum on self-determination.
In any case, prior to this decision, early in the afternoon, ERC had already made public that they would not support the motion. According to Nogueras however, ERC not only knew about the existence of the motion, but had backed the proposal because it fitted within the framework of the bilateral meeting between the Ernest Maragall , and Meritxell Batet.
ERC’s Joan Tardà claimed that in his speech, the PSC’s José Zaragoza had “burnt any possible bridges” for understanding. “It must be possible to speak about everything without conditions, without limits; starting from scratch,” he said, also saying that this was a turn around from what had been agreed to with vice-president Carmen Calvo before the last meeting between Torra and Sánchez.
Carles Campuzano had originally presented the motion recalling that several prestigious jurists, including Francisco Rubio Llorente, a former TC judge and the President of the State Council, had asserted on different occasions that an open interpretation of the Constitution would allow a referendum to be held. .