"Have you ever gotten so much for so little?" "In my career I have never known such a case." The newspaper archive gives away that phrase by Josu Erkoreka after a plenary session of Congress in 2011. In exchange for an abstention in the validation of a decree, the PNV scored a "historic achievement" On Wednesday, Junts was the protagonist. “In three minutes, what was impossible becomes possible.” Vice President María Jesús Montero called it “exploring the perimeter” in search of counterparts to add Junts votes; Alberto Núñez Feijóo , “extortion.” The result, a field without doors for Carles Puigdemont.
How does the transfer of immigration powers to Catalonia fall into Puigdemont's bag? In Junts they maintain that a “simple” negotiation is complicated by the “forms” of Moncloa. They receive the documentation on the night of December 22 announcing its approval on the 27th; The spending ceiling is not even communicated. There is a failed meeting in the Moncloa complex the day before the vote. It is the good work of Santos Cerdán that directs the situation in injury time in exchange for important compensations that were not in the script. “Immigration, now, was not relevant,” they admit.
Months ago, Junts had expressed the need to abandon the coffee lane for all, and that the way was article 150.2 of the Constitution or the recognition of historical rights. Puigdemont had already focused on immigration management in his conference on September 5, and Junts lost a vote in the Parliament on the issue with the votes of PSC and ERC. The post-convergents aspire to the delegation of powers and resources to develop a “comprehensive policy”; The Government offers a management commission. This is a figure provided for in the law on the legal regime of public administrations that Moncloa now uses to transfer the execution of infrastructure. The offer is rejected, and the agreement is locked around the transfer formula via 150.2.
The agreement is today a simple statement, but Junts has managed to take out of the drawer a tool that was only used in 1997 to hand over traffic powers to the Mossos – under the presidency of José María Aznar – and was raised without success for the calling of referendums. .
PSOE and Junts are now aware that the rope cannot be tightened in each vote and will work on a conflict resolution protocol. They also already have another meeting of the negotiating table in Geneva on the agenda.
Junts has implemented a new strategy. Without a legislature's “phone book,” the perimeters are diffuse and turn the budget vote into a ticking time bomb. “We have no need to save any bloc,” the post-convergents remember. Junts is Pedro Sánchez's freest partner. The PNV aims to remain in the lehendakaritza with the votes of the PSE; Bildu continues with its strategy of political homologation, it could only govern with the socialist votes already committed to the PNV, but they have helped them add Pamplona. And ERC… needs to exhaust the year with the PSC voting on its budgets, despite Salvador Illa's story. The Catalan socialists suffer the wear and tear of the amnesty and now the contradictions of the agreement with Junts on immigration.
Minister Bolaños works overtime to calm things down in ERC. The Republicans maintain their roadmap and strive to convert the agreements presented by Junts into simple “statements.” “They pay in advance,” they say. The management maintains that Puigdemont's men do not gain electoral benefit from their tug-of-war with the Government while they work to offer an image of reliability. The negotiation table between governments is scheduled for the end of March and they hope to appear with specifics.
The next six months are key for the legislature. Agree and comply. The commitment that Erkoreka boasted in 2011 is still in the air 14 years later. The prevalence of regional agreements over state ones declined on Wednesday due to Podemos's no to Yolanda Díaz.
