The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, does not contemplate, "for the moment", presenting a motion of censure against Pere Aragonès. He would be contradictory with the political stability that they believe the moment requires, but he does not rule it out either. Before weighing that scenario, many stages have to be burned.
First, to see how the president poses the immediate future in the plenary session of Parliament, next week, to account for the remodeling of the Government; then, take stock of the round of contacts with the parties that Aragonès has already started with the commons, and above all, see what happens with the next budgets of the Generalitat. Thus, the socialists use the same tactic as Aragonès: wait and see what happens without also losing sight of what happens in the Spanish political scene.
The PSC is willing to "rescue Catalonia, not Aragonès", supporting the budgets, but if they are not approved "it would be necessary to analyze what use this Government has", warn party sources. Illa I want the president to be the one to “clarify himself” and take the first step, without understanding “how you can play with 3,098 million euros”, the increase in spending that the new accounts would include.
If Junts maintains its refusal to support them, as expected, the ERC has no choice but to count on the PSC to save them and not see the risk of a premature death of the Government increased. But Republicans want to exploit the inconsistency they see in their former partner refusing to pass his own budgets. Hence the round of meetings that Aragonès has started and that would include a meeting with Junts.
In addition, the president plays with the trump card that the postconvergents, decisive for an eventual motion of censure to prosper, would fall into the embers of inconsistency with an agreement of such caliber with those who helped implement 155. The sociovergent collusion would arm the story of ERC, which has been hammering away at the agreement between the two formations in the Diputació de Barcelona since it was forged.
In any case, the motion of censure requires an absolute majority of Parliament to move forward, and would bring together strange traveling companions. Junts and PSC add up to 65 deputies and would require another group (the commons, the CUP or C's).
Jéssica Albiach has already pointed out that, if there are no budgets, "we would enter a new phase", and yesterday she left the meeting in Palau with the president disappointed. Things didn't start well. Despite her deference to see her before the rest of her, whom Aragonès has summoned by phone to see each other later, Albiach confirmed that the president does not rule out extending the accounts, nor is he about to tie himself to the PSC.
“Aragonès does not work to build a stable majority to develop a government plan”, so “we are where we were, in the game of holding Junts responsible” for the budget extension, they conclude.
The role of those of Albiach will be limited to "negotiating law by law" until the president agrees to "get out of the mud with Junts", and that is what the Government clings to, variable geometry, appealing to the "responsibility of all ”, also so that there are budgets.
The body asks Illa to put Aragonès in trouble, especially after announcing that the accounts will not see the light on time, on January 1, and the tension between them is evident in the "two-minute" call that kept the Thursday.
While the game is clarified, the PSC demonstrates its willingness to agree. Yesterday he presented a battery of proposals for the accounts, among them a shock plan against the crisis of 850 million, almost triple the funds that Aragonès plans to allocate.
