Overview
- Jordi Turull set out the plan on Thursday, saying any substitute for Pedro Sánchez would not have to be from the PSOE, must accept the Brussels 2023 pact and travel to Waterloo to make gestures toward Carles Puigdemont.
- Junts presents the 'vía Starmer' as a way to keep the PSOE–Sumar government in office while changing the head of government so agreed commitments are enforced and legislative paralysis is avoided.
- The PSOE has publicly ruled out Sánchez stepping down to allow a negotiated replacement, though Junts says it has evidence of some PSOE figures privately open to the idea.
- No candidate name has been proposed and negotiators have not begun formal talks, making the route unlikely to succeed for now but useful to Junts as political leverage.
- The demand to involve Waterloo and the Brussels pact reflects Junts’s ties to Catalan independence aims and shows how the party is using investiture-era bargains to extract concrete commitments.