Overview
- The party’s 50-member executive met in Perpignan and voted to end its parliamentary support, with a grassroots ratification set for Wednesday and Thursday that observers expect to pass.
- Loss of Junts’ seven deputies deprives the PSOE–Sumar government of a working majority in the Congreso, raising the risk of legislative paralysis, a blocked budget and talk of possible snap elections.
- Carles Puigdemont said Junts will take on an opposition role, while signaling the party could still back select measures on a case-by-case basis.
- A no-confidence motion is numerically feasible only if Junts joins the conservative PP and far-right Vox, a coalition seen as unlikely after Vox ruled out cooperating with separatists.
- Grievances include Germany’s resistance to making Catalan an EU official language and judicial decisions that left embezzlement-related charges against Puigdemont outside the 2024 amnesty.