Miriam Nogueras reopens the door to a negotiation with the PSOE after the general elections on November 29. The Junts spokesperson in Congress and the party's candidate for the elections stated this Friday that she is willing to sit down with the socialists if their votes are once again decisive and a series of conditions are met that place Catalonia "at the center".
Among the demands she listed are the delegation of immigration powers, the official status of Catalan in the European Union, and Catalonia managing its own taxes. The pro-independence leader also ruled out that the PP and the far-right Vox could count on her party's votes to form a government.
Nogueras's words come just over a year after Junts declared its agreement with the PSOE broken and announced the end of negotiations with the socialists. A rupture that contributed to leaving Pedro Sánchez's Executive without a stable majority in Congress and ultimately led to a legislature marked by difficulties in moving its initiatives forward.
Now, with the election campaign on the horizon and without yet knowing what majorities will emerge from the polls, Carles Puigdemont's party is once again raising the possibility of negotiating, although it maintains its demands and its criticisms of the Prime Minister.
From rupture to a new negotiation
Junts's membership endorsed in October 2025, with 86.98% of the votes, the leadership's decision to terminate the investiture agreement signed with the PSOE in 2023. The party justified the step by what it considered breaches of the commitments reached with the socialists.
At that time, Nogueras herself assured that dialogue with the PSOE had ended. "We cut off all relations", she stated, before insisting that her party would not "negotiate or dialogue" with the socialists.
Despite that warning, contacts on specific issues did not completely disappear. Last September, Junts acknowledged an approach with the PSOE on housing measures and assured that it had sent a proposal to the Prime Minister. The negotiation did not prevent the pro-independence parties from ultimately voting against the two decrees promoted by the Executive.
That rejection, to which the PP and Vox joined, precipitated Sánchez's decision to call early elections for November 29. The Government again approved the housing measures after announcing the electoral call, with changes so that they could be voted on in the Permanent Deputation of the Congress, the body that continues to function when the Cortes are dissolved.
Nogueras defended this Friday that her housing proposal was "of consensus" and accused Sánchez of leaving it in a drawer. In her opinion, the president had "much more desire to call elections" than to push through the text proposed by Junts.
Junts' conditions for 29N
In her interview on SER Catalunya, the candidate placed the possible negotiation with the PSOE in a specific scenario. For it to happen, Junts expects its deputies to once again be decisive and for its demands for Catalonia to be on the table. That will depend on the election result and the distribution of seats that the 29N leaves.
"What we must achieve is that absolutely nothing can be decided in Madrid if it is not with Catalonia," said Nogueras, who advocates maintaining that influence as long as the community is not independent.
The leader had already shown signs of openness during the pre-campaign. Last October 27, she proposed that Junts could invest a PSOE Government if the socialists accepted measures for Catalonia and Pedro Sánchez stepped aside. In her statements this Friday, reported by Europa Press, she again spoke of negotiating with the PSOE, although she did not specify whether she maintains that condition regarding the socialist candidate.
She also insisted on distancing herself from the PP and Vox, despite the votes in which Junts coincided with both parties in Congress. Asked if they could count on their deputies to form an Executive, she replied no and recalled that her party facilitated Sánchez's investiture after the 2023 elections.
The candidate claims to be a center option and accuses the socialist president of being dragged along by the "extreme left." Two days ago, she also warned that with Junts' votes there would be "neither an Abascal minister" nor a "Colau minister", referring to the leader of Vox and the leader of the Broad Front.
