By consummating its no to the two housing decrees that the Government was trying to carry out today, Junts has deepened this Friday in its break with the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. He has done so with his spokesperson, Miriam Nogueras, addressing La Moncloa very harshly, after the reproaches expressed in recent hours from the presidential complex for the neo-convergent refusal to support the proposed housing measures. Neither the negotiations started in these days, nor the last-minute offers launched by both parties, have managed to prevent the decrees from falling. And, with this, it has not prevented the relationship between the Government and Junts from being even more broken. Maybe permanently.
Last night, in parallel with the announcement that they would vote against the texts, the neo-convergents proposed to the Government that it withdraw the regulations - to avoid seeing them fall in Congress - and negotiate others, but La Moncloa rejected it. He also did not accept the last minute movement executed by Carles Puigdemont's party, which this morning presented an alternative decree to the PSOE to continue negotiating. Vice versa, the relationship did not flow either: the Minister of Housing proposed to Junts to amend the decree once it was decided to be processed as a bill, but the independentistas remained in their no to the Government. And they consummated it, verbally and with their vote.
In her turn to speak, the Junts spokesperson, Nogueras, responded harshly to the Government. He accused the Executive of being doing "the worst" and that it is nothing other than "encouraging a lie." The pro-independence spokesperson insisted that the measures proposed by the Government would not solve the "very serious" housing problem; on the contrary, she said, "it would worsen."
On the contrary, the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, had addressed Junts with a tone of prayer, urging her seven deputies not to torpedo the rule, either by voting in favor or by abstaining. But Junts also received multiple reproaches during the parliamentary debate. From the space to the left of the PSOE at the national level and, above all, from its direct rival for the independence electorate in Catalonia, ERC.
That Junts has been decisive in overturning the first decree has spurred Gabriel Rufián to launch a very harsh attack against Puigdemont's men to the point that he has marked a turning point in the (bad) relationship with them by proclaiming that, from now on, he is going to "try hard" so that they "end up ostracized." And this begins by focusing on preventing ERC from reaching any agreement with them. "Let my party not make an agreement with you at all," he stressed, because "they dedicate themselves to whoring" the people of Catalonia.
The ERC parliamentary spokesperson took out a 50 euro bill and placed it on the speakers' platform to reproach Junts that "this is their star" and "the flag they share with PP and Vox." Then he placed his house keys next to him and stated that the debate in Congress was between "this or this."
Rufián, who expressed that he "felt like crying" about the situation, confronted the Junts deputies because "there is no right to what they are doing." "Why was the Junts decree 48 hours ago and now they are voting against it? Who called who?" he said to insinuate that it was vulture funds and large speculators.
After slipping that the street will turn against them, he asked people for "restraint" with Junts while insisting on telling Nogueras that Junts "are not aware" of what they were doing. He has blamed the pro-independence spokesperson for having a "bad" political vision and for being "bad politics." "They are destroying a party that is necessary for my country. I ask them to return to right-wing and conservative pujolism and to stop imitating Orriols and Ayuso."
