Sémper, who has given an interview to RNE, has stressed that “everyone knows where the Popular Party is and where the rest of the parties are with respect to Junts”, but even so “we are going to try (…) a process of institutional conversations with the groups represented in the Chamber”.
The deputy secretary of the PP has defended that “this does not prejudge anything”, but that “it is about recovering an institutionality and a normality, with light and stenographers”. However, it is materially impossible to reach agreements” with Junst because, among other things, “the priority objective is to achieve the independence of Catalonia”, which makes any type of agreement “very difficult, if not impossible”. The goal pro-independence party or the demand for an amnesty from this party “makes any agreement impossible”, he stressed.”I don’t know if (the PP) places it outside the Constitution, it places it outside political rationality”, he said after the also leader of the PP Esteban González Pons affirmed that the “tradition and legality” of this formation “is not in doubt”.
Regarding the PNV, he assures that “we do not give up anything, being aware of how difficult everything is”, so “we will fulfill our responsibility to try to join forces to improve the country.” In this regard, the PP deputy secretary regrets that “we have been talking about pardons, amnesties and the navel of politicians for a long time, but not about the country’s agenda.”
Sémper has insisted on appealing to the PSOE to support Feijóo because we must talk about “the needs of the Spanish” and stop looking at “the navel of politicians” although he has acknowledged that he is being “inexperienced”. It would be desirable, from his point of view, that “the two big parties go beyond our legitimate partisan interests and agree on a transversal transforming agenda” to face future challenges, for which he has reaffirmed in his call to socialist deputies to that they support the investiture of Feijóo, which has been extended to the entire party and “to the rest of the political formations that have a vocation for the State.”
“It seems to me the best of the possible options in a scenario like the current one, that there be more grandeur and less partisan politics,” he insisted, acknowledging that it is “complicated” given the will manifested by the PSOE.”
Sémper lamented that in Spanish politics “there is too much talk of blocs, too much talk of trenches and very little talk of meeting, harmony and the search for the general interest in a shared way”.
He has also been critical of the transfer of deputies from Sumar to ERC to form its own group in Congress and what is expected for JxCat, since he understands that “the seams of the norm are forced” and he sees it as “a bit of a fraud” because the parties get a status that the ballot boxes did not give and that entails more financing.
Sumar’s spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, also said today on RNE that Sémper’s appeal to PSOE deputies who are not comfortable with the fact of depending on Puigdemont is something “ridiculous and desperate.” These “desperate” statements, he said, prove that Feijóo’s investiture “is going directly to failure”, and also that the PP “is isolated, has no capacity for pact or dialogue with the political forces that represent the plurality of the country”, and also its leader “is questioned internally.
Feijóo has no chance of being sworn in as president and has regretted that he is wasting everyone “precious time” which, in his opinion, the popular candidate will use to “stop his crisis of leadership.” Meanwhile, Urtasun does see that the amnesty demanded by the Catalan separatists “has a constitutional fit, it is not a general pardon”, and “it can go ahead”, since it is a different legal concept from pardon and, furthermore, “the fastest way and complet”.
He recalled that when talking about amnesty “one always thinks of Carles Puigdemont”, but he made it clear that there are many people who are currently facing legal proceedings: “There are many affected by the consequences of October 1, from mayors to people from civil society.
