Pere Aragonès: "The result of 14-F will not make us renounce our strategy"

It is the second time that ERC touches the presidency of the Generalitat in democracy.

Pere Aragonès (Pineda de Mar, Barcelona, ​​38 years old) is sure that the 14-F will win.

The candidate clarifies that the results will not modify the party's turn towards "the broad path" to achieve independence, putting aside unilateralism and betting on the dialogue that forces them to accept the agreed referendum.

Question.

They say it's ERC time.

What if Carles Puigdemont wins again?

Answer.

We won the last two general elections and the municipal elections.

That will for change will be repeated on 14-F.

Q.

Do you have the feeling that the Junts program now defends the same as yours regarding independence?

R.

Our position has not changed: we place self-determination and amnesty at the center and exceed 50% of the votes as a very important impulse to defend the referendum.

If now others say that, welcome.

Citizens have to trust those who do not change their discourse on a weekend.

P.

Agree with the PSC?

A.

No. A PSC that has assumed the Citizens' discourse is absolutely incompatible with an ERC that wants to lead this country to independence.

The people of the PSC with whom agreements could be reached are already in ERC.

Salvador Illa has also made it clear that he does not support independentistas.

P.

Manuel Valls voted for Ada Colau despite the differences.

R.

When you appear for an investiture you already know who votes for you.

Colau did numbers, and Illa, who from the beginning was in the operation, too.

If the PSC is going to reject Vox's votes, let him say so.

Their silence is evidence that if they can they will use them.

Q.

If you win, will you present yes or yes to the investiture?

A.

Sure.

And I assure you that if it

depended on Vox

to be

president

, it would never be.

The far right has a price.

Q.

If the Junts win, will you vote for them?

R.

Before we have been able to reach agreements.

I have the doubt, when there are independentists who have doubts about the dilemma between Aragonès and Illa.

P.

Are you afraid that the Junts will not vote for you?

A.

I am not afraid.

P.

He managed to unite ERC in the turn from 2017 to the strategy that parks the unilateral way.

Would losing now amend that bet?

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R.

Our strategy is not electoralist.

Reflection has led us to be clear that if we want independence we have to overcome the limitations that we encountered in October 2017. That we have to add more people.

We cannot leave dialogue in the hands of the Government.

P.

But the support for ERC on F-14 will show whether the electorate also connects with that strategy or not.

R.

Win or lose you have to reflect on the results, but in order to strengthen the strategy.

We do not consider giving it up, because it is the good one.

The other thing is to go around in circles.

P.

Therefore, the commitment to the pact and pressure in Congress will not be affected either.

R.

We have to be demanding and take advantage of the tools.

No one can pretend that ERC did not win in the last elections.

P.

Laura Borràs is waiting for the Supreme Court to call him to trial for an alleged crime of prevarication, as he is accused of having cut up a public contract to benefit a friend when he was running the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. the resignation if she is a

councilor

?

R.

Regarding advisers I will not position myself until 15-F.

First is the project.

I will not judge Borràs, but he will be an efficient and ethical Executive.

Q.

ERC's proposals such as "expelling the Ibex-35 from public services" do not conflict with aspects of your private life?

He attended the wedding of the daughter of a senior manager of La Caixa.

A.

Fortunately, people with whom I have personal relationships do not always think like me.

If not, I would be a cultist, and I am not.

Q.

Your program includes the creation of a "social rate" to avoid the digital divide.

The Generalitat has failed to make power companies pay part of the bill for energy poverty.

Will you get it with the telecommunications companies?

R.

The neglect of the Government in the face of energy poverty forces us to seek solutions.

It is a regulated sector.

The Generalitat is making a significant investment in the fiber optic network that these Internet service providers will use and there is room for negotiation.

P.

Why have you presented the program of European funds in full campaign?

R.

Should we give up defending the projects we have selected for their potential?

The state is upset because it wants a monopoly on management.

P.

What would happen in a presidency of Pere Aragonès?

R.

It will be the legislature of reconstruction after the pandemic and the democratic solution of the conflict.

One of the first things will be to call the National Pact for the Referendum to agree on a proposal for the dialogue table.

Q. Has

that table been sterile?

R.

This table does not exist because the PSOE wanted it, ERC forced it.

Junts showed their misgivings and that was the government's great excuse for not moving forward.

The repression did not help either.

I don't know if the table will be the solution, but you have to try.

P.

Justice endorsed, last week, the wiretapping of the

Voloh case,

for which a Barcelona court accuses the former secretary of organization of his party, Xavier Vendrell, of influence peddling

in the Generalitat and in the Cabrera de Mar City Council

Will ERC investigate these possible wrongdoing?

R.

It is a prospective investigation into some alleged contracts that were not made and includes minor conversations in the procedure.

We constantly see how justice is used to politically attack the independence movement.

P.

That's what Borràs says

R.

Certain areas of the judiciary are hostile to independence.

Borràs has his defense strategy and I hope that everything can be clarified.

If there are responsibilities, let them be settled.

Q.

Are you not worried about hearing Vendrell maneuvering with senior ERC officials to find a municipal secretary to endorse the Villa Bugatti urban operation?

R.

In the end, the question is what events have occurred.

P.

The candidate for secretary that Vendrell wanted, also from ERC, did run.

R.

The urban change was approved by the plenary session.

And we are talking about a school.