Sunday, January 27, 2019

Mas insists that it is more convenient for Catalunya the continuity of Sánchez at Moncloa


The expresident insists that “the arrival of the others should be much worse” if there are elections due to lack of support to the budget


The expresident of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has reiterated this Thursday, as he already declared in La Vanguardia , that the continuity of Pedro Sánchez, President of the socialist Government, at Moncloa is more convenient for the pro-independence parties than forcing the call for a snap election by way of denying support to the general Budget of the state.
In declarations to Ser Catalunya, Mas commented that, when he posited to be preferable a socialist government over an extreme right tripartite one, he said so not because he was thinking about helping Sánchez and his government (since he believes that Sánchez “will not solve this situation and less so in the short run), but he was thinking “about us and our own interests”, explaining that not only about the interests of the pro-independence parties but also of Catalunya as a whole. Because “even worse will be the arrival of the others” has assured.
Mas showed his agreement with the words of Joaquim Forn, the PDeCat candidate to the mayoralty of Barcelona, who in an interview for Catalunya Ràdio also commented that “I’m not sure about the pro-independence parties having to bring down Pedro Sánchez”. In this respect, Mas has valued that Pedro Sánchez has “a solution” on the table, “risky”, based on the choice of “budget or elections”. In this sense, the expresident thinks that Sánchez is “taking his risks” in spite of the fact that this is not his purpose, but he finds himself forced to “play hard” and “his only possibility is just to lay the snap elections on the table”.
The expresident has avoided to comment about the view of Marta Pascal, the PDeCat excoordinator, who in an article published in La Vanguardia has showed herself in favour of an estrangement from the postulates of expresident Puigdemont while making “a PDeCat great”. Mas has limited himself to commenting that he is in favour of a solution including “a referendum with two questions”, one coming from the Congress and the other from the Parliament –this second one having to do possibly with the wager for independence.
As to the birth of the Crida, Mas has insisted in keeping himself outside until there would eventually be an agreement with the PDeCat, which still is not the case. Thus, “if there is an agreement, I will take part; if not, I will keep myself in reserve”, since “I am after the maximum of unity within the pro-independence sphere”, has argued.
Concerning his disqualification sentence from the Supreme Court whereby he has got a reduction of several months, the expresident has put his emphasis on the fact that the text of the court highlights that there is no right to participate in an illegal consultation. In the face of this conclusion, Mas asks himself “why didn’t they prosecute all who went to the polls” on the 9-N and the 1-O. In his view, “what they are judging is a disobedience towards the Constitutional Court; but, then, the central governments have failed time and again to comply with the sentences from this court and they haven’t been judged for it”, has reproached. This leads him to conclude that “these people are very much directed towards the need of punishments for all these popular enquiries”. 

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