ERC candidate for the Barcelona Congress, Gabriel Rufián, said this Tuesday that if the PP’s presidential candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, wins the general elections on July 23, the people’s leader will be in charge of forming a government: “We have to respect the result and go over to the opposition.”
This is what the Republican referred to after being asked at a colloquium at the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona if Republicans would not “support the possibility that Vox would not enter a PP government supporting the PSOE”.
“There comes a point where, if Feijóo wins, the responsibility for how he wants to become president of his country rests with Feijóo. What we have to do is respect the result, go into opposition and confront whatever is necessary. But we are pro-independence and progressive, we don’t have to engage in the blackmail that Feijóo portrays as “me or chaos”. “It’s terrible that the right is engaging in this kind of blackmail and asking for support to prevent the ultra-right from entering,” he said
Rufián’s reflection follows Feijóo’s offer to Sánchez in a face-to-face meeting this Monday to work to facilitate the installation of the party with the most votes in the elections.
Rufián also had words for Junts, to which he referred in a forgiving tone. “The only thing I can say to Míriam Nogueras (Junts) is that I am not her opponent.” The statements came after both Nogueras and JxCat Secretary General Jordi Turull attacked Republicans in the first acts of the campaign and had criticized the pacts they had made with the government during this legislature, even calling them “subjects of the state” and “sinks of (Pedro) Sánchez”.
The Republican nominee has defended that the unity of action of the independence movement, which he called “the perennial question,” is “more than what people believe,” and has argued this, detailing that in this last legislative session of Congress, the ERC endorsed the government’s parliamentary initiatives 89% of the time, while JxCat did 85% of the time: “The difference is very small,” he judged.
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