With the Government still reformulating itself, Pere Aragonès has thrown hooks into the sea and in recent days has met with the commons, the CUP, Junts and the PSC to share his project with all of them. He first contacted En Comú Podem, which is the formation with which he sees the most possibilities for an agreement today, and he has left the meeting with Salvador Illa, first secretary of the Catalan Socialists, whom he maintains in the reserve for a possible budget agreement if the sovereignist parties ultimately turn their backs on him.
Little specificity in all appointments. It could be said that it has been a trial of vermouth and olives: the round of contacts for the accounts of the Generalitat with all of them, as the former Minister of Economy Jaume Giró already did, will begin next week.
This was announced by the president to the leader of the PSC yesterday after an hour and a half meeting at the Palau de la Generalitat. They reviewed different issues, such as concern about inflation, and Aragonés gave an account of the changes of a Government led by ERC alone.
Regarding the great what, the budgets of the Generalitat, Aragonès reiterated to Illa that his priority is to agree on them with those who facilitated his investiture – Junts and the CUP – and those who wound up the current accounts – Junts and the commons.
This relegation to the Socialists did not prevent Illa from once again showing the president her willingness to negotiate the 2023 budgets to have them completed, if necessary, on January 1.
Aragonés, however, already warned weeks ago that he sees it very difficult to have them prepared by then, since with the departure of Junts del Govern, the new Minister of Economy, Natàlia Mas, needed to review the numbers to introduce some changes, if appropriate.
