The PSC announces that it will not attend the Aragonès meeting on the referendum

Salvador Illa (left) talks with the PSC candidate for mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, and the mayoress of L'Hospitalet, Núria Marín. DAVID ZORRAKINO - EUROPA PRESS (DAVID ZORRAKINO - EUROPA PRESS)

The PSC completely rejects any self-determination referendum in Catalonia and does not plan to attend the meetings called by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, to seek a consensus on the so-called "clarity agreement", his project to try to agree with the central government the rules of a hypothetical vote on independence.

Salvador Illa, first secretary of the Catalan socialists and leader of the opposition, has insisted this Thursday that "there will never be a self-determination referendum in Catalonia supported by the Catalan socialists", and has also clarified that his party is not "committed to their assistance" to that forum of parties that Aragonès wants to organize since the PSC have always opposed proposals that go "in the line of dividing the Catalans".

Hours before, however,

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although Romero had also described the proposal for a referendum as a “siding”.

In a statement after the inauguration of Carlos Prieto, the new Government delegate in Catalonia, Illa stated that the Socialists are focused on resolving the specific problems of the citizenry, and cited first of all the drought suffered by the region and secondly Secondly, the interim situation that the Parliament is experiencing due to the resistance of Laura Borràs to abandon her position despite her conviction for corruption.

“Those are the priorities and that is what efforts must be focused on.

Not in confusing proposals that seek to delve into the division of the Catalans.

We are not going to sign up for this.

There will never be a self-determination referendum in Catalonia supported by the Catalan socialists", the PSC leader stated, advocating "uniting" the Catalans instead of "dividing" them.

In the same sense, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, had expressed himself on Wednesday, distancing himself from plans that, in his opinion, "are not the future" but rather "return to the worst past of recent Catalonia, of division, of the conflict, of stressing society”.

With her qualification, Illa has corrected her spokesperson in Parliament, Alicia Romero, who this morning, despite stressing her opposition to the referendum, had hinted that the Socialists would attend the party meeting called by Aragonès.

summons us

, we usually go.

We are an institutional and responsible party and, when it summons us, we go", the deputy had said in La 2. Romero, in any case, had insisted that the referendum is outside the constitutional framework and is divisive: "The proposal is extemporaneous ", has said.

Aragonès outlined last Tuesday at the Palau de la Generalitat the participatory process with which he hopes to shape the so-called "clarity agreement", that is, the rules and conditions that would have to be negotiated with the central government to hold a hypothetical agreed referendum on the independence.

ERC has already made a first draft, but the

wants a group of experts to make a report, for it to be discussed with parties, entities and citizens chosen by lot, and then for the same commission of wise men to shape the proposal that is would lead to the dialogue table.

Junts and the CUP see electoralism in this movement.

The Moncloa, and also the Parliament, oppose the initiative.

Since the beginning of the mandate, Illa has unsuccessfully demanded that the Government gather a table of Catalan parties to unravel the sovereignist debate and agree on a proposal to submit it to the central government and be able to vote on it later in a consultation, but always within the constitutional order .

The procedure that would follow, for example, a reform of the Statute.

"He promised two years ago to convene it in the investiture agreement for Pedro Sánchez," the opposition leader insisted.

PSC sources emphasize that the table that Aragonès now proposes in no way replaces the one that the Socialists have demanded in the last two years.

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