Alarm in the PSOE due to the secrecy with Junts: “We look like a clandestin...

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The start of negotiations between the PSOE and Junts have been surrounded by maximum secrecy. An atmosphere that has unleashed nerves in the PSOE . They criticize that discretion in conversations should not mean, in any case, opacity. Party leaders, at all levels, demand the greatest possible transparency. PSOE and Junts have begun the monthly meetings that they will hold throughout the entire legislature to negotiate the two key issues that they agreed on in the investiture pact: the “national recognition” of Catalonia and the expansion of the self-government of the Generalitat . For now, the first meeting, which took place in Geneva (Switzerland) last Saturday, has been held under total secrecy.

Only the figure who will act as mediator in the negotiations has been announced: the Salvadoran diplomat Francisco Galindo Vélez will  Country Email List be the one who will coordinate “the international mechanism that is part of the agreement.” Nothing else has been known. Neither the specific place of the meeting , nor the topics that were addressed. It was only revealed during the same day on Saturday that the meeting had started after 10 in the morning and concluded in the middle of the afternoon. “A clandestine organization” As Confidencial Digital has learned from several socialist leaders, the secrecy of the meetings with Junts has set off alarms in the PSOE . They consider that the staging demanded by Puigdemont from the number three of the socialists "seems to equate the PSOE with a clandestine organization in exile .



" They conclude that, although Junts' strategy is perfectly understood from nationalism, "the PSOE needs a democratic story that all of Spain understands." They don't understand why they hide They remember that the controversial amnesty law proposal was presented with clarity and detail and the rest of the issues to be negotiated are in the pact already made public. “Nothing explains, therefore, the secrecy that is surrounding the next steps,” protests a veteran leader of the PSOE against the strategy of Moncloa and Ferraz. They consider that, if the Government of Pedro Sánchez intends to emerge unscathed from the decision to agree to an amnesty for the leaders of the 'procès' to achieve their parliamentary support, “the worst strategy is to negotiate the details of the political agreement that illuminated the law with opacity, abroad and under the gaze of an international verifier.”