Junts maintains its strategy with the PP despite pressure over the Cerdán case.
Although Junts supported Pedro Sánchez's investiture at the end of 2023 and, with its seven deputies, is a key and fundamental element in keeping the Spanish legislature alive, the party has always avoided labeling itself as a partner of Pedro Sánchez's government and the PSOE, and has also avoided being pigeonholed into the so-called "investiture bloc" or the "progressive majority."
In fact, the post-Convergent party has shown its willingness to sit down with both the Socialists and the Popular Party in recent years, as long as it can set the parameters and coordinates of the negotiations.
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In the face of the trial balloons now being launched by the PP to shake up the Executive's tree in the wake of the Koldo plot and the imprisonment of the PSOE's former number three, Santos Cerdán, to see if any of its partners will back down, JxCat maintains its strategy.
Sources within the party immediately responded that the talks will involve Waterloo, a scenario the PP has ruled out. "In the PP, they already know—as everyone else does—what Junts' mechanisms are for holding conversations of this nature, party to party," stressed those within the post-Convergent party. The sources added that negotiations must be held with the organization's president, Carles Puigdemont, the secretary general, Jordi Turull, and the spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Miriam Nogueras. "We will be no less demanding of the PP and the PSOE in accepting meetings on these matters," these sources concluded.
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In this sense, from the very beginning of the current legislature, Junts has asserted that its terms of reference are the same whether it negotiates with the PSOE or the PP, and its group has had no qualms about voting alongside the latter. In any case, there are still open wounds and unfinished business with the PP, such as the official status of Catalan in Europe, which the PP has vehemently opposed, and other maneuvers by Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party to undermine JxCat.
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