The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, yesterday gave a 180 degree turn on the question of the fourth belt in order to guarantee the support of the PSC and to be able to approve the budgets. Despite the ERC concession, the Socialists have left their final position up in the air, a fact that has provoked criticism from the commons towards the leader of the Executive. The spokesperson for En Comú Podem in Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, considers it "quite inexplicable" that Aragonès has taken this step with the B-40 without having tied the vote of the PSC.
In statements to La 2 and Ràdio 4, the leader of the commons, a party that closed a pact with the Government on the accounts in December, has verified the "contradiction" of the Republicans, who have gone from a frontal opposition to the project to vote a motion of those of Salvador Illa in the Catalan chamber. She has also blamed them for the "change of position" without having guaranteed socialist support. "We hallucinate", she has recounted her. In this sense, Albiach has invited ERC to do a "reflection" and has challenged it to explain itself to its voters.
On the other hand, he has revealed that the president told him privately that he wanted to "leave Salvador Illa without excuses" and force his favorable vote once and for all.
Although they have always shown their disagreement with the project, and even went so far as to leave their support up in the air if an agreement was reached with the PSC or Junts on the B-40 -like the Hard Rock and the expansion of the airport-, the commoners did not they move from their position and maintain their yes. The justification that Albiach has given is that these projects will not form part of the budgets, an aspect of which Aragonès "gave his word", according to the deputy.
The spokesperson for En Comú Podem has also charged against the PSC for its veto of the accounts. "Until now they were blocked by a road and at this moment we no longer know why," she pointed out, after Salvador Illa announced yesterday that the negotiation would resume on Monday and that there were still "aspects in which to continue advancing."
The socialist leader acknowledged that the agreement was "closer", but rejected that it was imminent, something that the common people did not like. “When it is not one thing, it is another”, Albiach has reproached Illa, whom he has summoned to say whether or not he wants to approve the budgets. The leader of the commons has questioned the will of the PSC to support the accounts and has accused the formation of an "artificial delay" in the negotiations.
Albiach has had an impact on contrasting his country model with that of the PSC: "They blackmail these projects, while we made an ultimatum to reach 20% of the budget in primary care." Likewise, he has urged the socialists to respond to the needs, he said, of health and education, two groups that this week have organized strikes and mobilizations.
Specifically on the fourth belt, a road that would link Sabadell and Terrassa, he has predicted that it will be knocked down by the courts in application of the law on climate change, as happened with the extension of the C-32. The commons consider that this project does not fit the current context. "The B-40 was raised when neither Aragonès nor I were born, are the needs really the same?" Albiach asked himself.
