Salvador Illa has turned a specific question to Junts into a campaign issue in Terrassa: after the general election on 29 November, would the party back Pedro Sánchez or a bloc led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal? The question matters because parliamentary backing may shape a future investiture. But it is a challenge issued by a rival, not evidence that Junts has chosen a side or reached a post-election deal.
The Catalan president made the demand at a campaign event alongside PSC candidate Jordi Hereu. elDiario.es reported that Illa said Catalan voters were entitled to know what Junts lawmakers would do and urged the party to state its position. His intervention seeks to move a decision often kept for negotiations after an election into voters’ pre-election assessment.
That is a legitimate form of electoral pressure. Parties may want room to negotiate after votes are counted, yet voters can reasonably ask which governing alternatives a party could support. Illa is using that tension: Junts’s bargaining flexibility becomes, in his argument, a question of political accountability.
The available material does not settle the underlying question. It reports Illa’s demand, but contains no response from Junts, no stated negotiating conditions and no agreement between parties. Treating the speech as proof that Junts will back Sánchez, or help produce a Feijóo-led majority, would go beyond the evidence provided.
The immediate political test is therefore narrower. If Junts wants to preserve room for post-election negotiations, it must decide how much electoral cost it accepts for leaving its boundaries unclear before 29 November.
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- elDiario.es · Source date: 2026-11-14
Independent editorial content. WUA is not affiliated with any political party. 2026-11-14