He asked the CUP to "get back on the bandwagon of what they got off"; to the common ones, that they contribute to reorient the priorities of the Government; With Junts he smoothed out rough edges and showed harmony after the latest disagreements, and with the PSC he was willing to study the table of Catalan matches with which Salvador Illa has insisted so much and so much plenary session after plenary session. Pere Aragonès exhibited in the morning in the Parlament conciliation with the socialists and all the pro-sovereignty groups, and parked for all of them any type of reproaches. Something that has not occurred in a control session for a long time.
But with the PSC, however, in the afternoon in the environment of the head of the Government there was some disappointment, because after Aragonès demanded that Illa set "a proposal for topics", he sent the same 43 points that they discussed face to face on February 16. "They do not serve to resolve the political conflict," they argue from the Presidency. If nothing changes, the president will once again reject the possibility that this table of Catalan parties will ever be convened.
The day had started with a certain strength for the Socialists. Aragonès had not given any option in the entire legislature to this space that the socialists claim. He had ignored it. The PSC proposal had even been voted on and rejected in committee and plenary session – the last time in early June. But yesterday Aragonés seemed to give Illa a little hope: he asked her to send him questions to discuss at that hypothetical table. But today it seems that it will come to nothing, because in view of the letter he sent to the first secretary of the PSC and that the proposals are the same as those of February, in the Government they do not believe that this space "is functional".
The president of the Generalitat had already warned loudly in Parliament: "Above all, if we can resolve the political conflict with your support, it will be a step forward." That is to say, the head of the Government asks that at that table the socialists present what their proposals are in the face of self-determination and the amnesty that the independentistas demand so much.
But from the Government they point out that in Illa's proposals "there is nothing new" and that it is also a document where issues "that are already being done" and others "are not the responsibility of the Generalitat and many others have already been they are debating in Parliament”, as are the national pacts for mental health, for industry or for language. Or "outdated" issues, such as the joint bid for the Winter Olympics.
“None of the points to which it refers are proposals on the resolution of the Catalan political conflict”, regret sources from the Presidency. In the Government they believe that the PSC tries to make it appear that there is no dialogue, “when, for example, we have met with the MEP Javi López (of the PSC) in Brussels to talk about the great consensus of the country in a European key”.
Thus, if things do not change, the table of Catalan parties, devised by the Socialist Party in 2018, will continue to have been convened only during Quim Torra's mandate. The results of the few meetings that took place were almost nil and the PP, Ciudadanos and the CUP always refused to appear.
Be that as it may, yesterday Aragonés tried to rebuild bridges with the CUP and the commons, and parked the differences with Junts, after the post-convergents complained bitterly because, they say, they are not informed in advance of the meetings at the Government level , like the one last week in Madrid between the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, and her counterpart in Moncloa, Félix Bolaños.
Yesterday, Jaume Giró, Minister of Economy, announced that he was opening contacts with the parliamentary groups to deal with the 2023 budgets. Cuperos and common people see here the reason for the approach of Aragonès.
