According to media reports, the Archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Juan José Omella was proposed as the main negotiator of the talks between the authorities of Catalonia and Spain.
The negotiations would concern the amnesty that Catalan separatists are demanding for politicians from the region convicted of secession, as well as the referendum they expected on the region’s independence.
According to Spanish media, the candidacy of the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference as negotiator in the talks between the Catalan and Spanish authorities was proposed by the former Prime Minister of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, who is hiding in Belgium from Spanish persecution after a failed attempt to break the secession of this region after the independence referendum in 2017.
According to the findings of the Vozpopuli website, Cardinal Omelli’s proposed candidacy did not receive favor from the center-left government of Pedro Sanchez.
Spain needs an agreement to form a new government
Reaching an agreement between the two parties is crucial for the formation of the new Spanish government. If Puigdemont’s Together for Catalonia (Junts) party in the Congress of Deputies votes against Sanchez’s third cabinet, the lower house of parliament and the Socialist leader (PSOE) will fail to form a government and will vote in January new elections are held.
Although PSOE came second in the elections on July 23 this year, the centre-right People’s Party (PP) failed to win Congress’s support in September. The House must vote on a vote of confidence in Sánchez’s third cabinet by November 27.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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