Junts rules out backing another Sánchez investiture and accuses PSOE of failing to honor commitments

The secretary-general of Junts, Jordi Turull, said his party would not support another investiture of Pedro Sánchez after the general election scheduled for November 29. In an interview on TV3, the party leader justified the rejection on the grounds that, in his view, PSOE had failed to honor the commitments it made to his party during the legislative term.

“We will not invest Pedro Sánchez. We have been burned,” Turull said. He also maintained that the prime minister had acted as though he had an absolute majority and that some of his policies were intended, in Turull’s words, to “make a good impression.” These are Junts leader’s assessments of the relationship between the two parties, not facts independently established by the information available.

Junts considers trust in PSOE broken

Turull presented the amnesty as a measure agreed in exchange for the investiture, not for continued support throughout the legislative term. In his view, Junts honored that commitment, while PSOE kept delaying other agreements and making excuses. He also recalled that his party had asked Sánchez to face a confidence motion, which, according to Turull, the prime minister did not address.

The announcement comes during the run-up to the general election and sets out the position Junts is taking ahead of a possible new Socialist investiture. It does not constitute a decision on the composition of the future Congress: the election result and the number of seats won by each party will determine the parliamentary arithmetic and the options for forming a government.

Junts also rejects a PP–Vox government

Turull’s statement came after Junts’s spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, ruled out her party supporting a possible government formed by the PP and Vox. The party has therefore expressed its opposition to backing both a new Sánchez investiture and a governing alliance between those two forces. The statements do not specify which other arrangements might receive its support.

During the day, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, criticized Junts for opposing housing measures and questioned its political relevance. The exchange reflects the start of the electoral dispute in Catalonia, but does not change the attributed nature of the positions: claims about failures to honor commitments and criticism of the parties’ conduct belong to their respective speakers.

Turull also did not specify when former president Carles Puigdemont would return to Catalonia. He said he did not want to speculate and that, according to the position he attributed to Junts, the return should be consistent with Puigdemont’s institutional role. The statement on the investiture therefore does not make it possible to anticipate either the date of any such return or the agreements that might be considered after the election.