Junts per Catalunya approved this Saturday its political roadmap and the new statutes for the coming years in the second phase of its congress, which is being held between today and tomorrow at the La Farga complex in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, after The management will be renewed at the beginning of June at a first meeting in Argelers, in the French region of Catalunya del Nord. Broadly speaking, the most relevant thing is that leaving the Government is ruled out and the pact with the PSC is maintained for now in the Barcelona Provincial Council.
On the table, in this conclave, there were relevant questions, such as the possibility of leaving the Government and breaking the pact with the Esquerra Republicana. Options such as voting before September 15 on the continuity of JxCat in the Executive of Pere Aragonès, leaving abruptly tomorrow, and other similar options had been proposed by the militancy. But all of them have fallen into the debate throughout today's session.
Thus, Junts continues with the planned plan to present an audit on the degree of compliance with the pact with the Republicans at the end of July or in September. Even so, a query to the affiliates in the future about continuing or not in the Generalitat is not ruled out, but the mechanisms that put it on the immediate horizon or forced it to be done are eliminated, whatever the audit says and whatever it says the direction.
In the political roadmap, in addition, a date is set for the end of the dialogue with the central government, on October 1, and it is requested to take action, in addition to trying to rebuild the battered unit of independence. "The dialogue remains more than it adds", summarized the coordinator of the political presentation and member of the management, Aleix Sarri, detailing how the text was left after the debate
With an eye on the municipal elections of 2023, a script has been drawn up to configure the post-election agreements. Local leaders will have autonomy to agree, although the priority will be the understanding between independentistas and the door is left open to incorporate unaffiliated people who share the party's project and the municipal project into the candidacies.
In the supra-municipal sphere, such as the county councils and county councils, it is made clear that it is a "high priority" to agree with pro-independence forces, as long as there are "exiled and retaliated" leaders, but the agreement with the PSC in the county council is maintained for now, despite the fact that the president of the formation, Laura Borràs, wanted to break it. Of course, the deputy Jordi Fàbrega, in charge of the presentation on municipal politics, has detailed that "the 2019 pact with the socialists would be very difficult in June 2023".
What will be done before the next electoral cycle is an assessment and balance of how the pacts have worked in this type of body. "Any decision will be made on a case-by-case basis, listening to the representatives of Junts in the territory and taking stock of the government's action," says the text approved yesterday, so in reality the door to reissue the pact with the PSC It is not completely closed, although it is glimpsed that it will have to pass several filters.
In the organizational debate there was a hidden pulse between the two souls of the party that could already be seen in Argelers in the voting, although there was only one candidate. In this subtle struggle, Turull has come out reinforced again, like a month and a half ago, when he obtained more votes than Borràs, and his allies have ensured compliance with the agreement that he and Borràs sealed at the beginning of May to avoid an open congress that confront the different sensitivities of JxCat and weaken the formation one year before the municipal elections.
In the votes on the proposed statutes there were mixed amendments that tried to weaken one sector and the other, but the most harmful to the unity of the party have been deactivated and an attempt has been made to guarantee internal peace, despite the fact that the sector pragmatic and institutional had a more than enough majority to go further.
In any case, the secretary of organization proposed by Borràs, David Torrents, who in Argelers was overthrown by the militants and was later rehired by the general secretary, is left without the powers of municipal politics and the coordination of municipal action. They will be accumulated by Turull and the deputy general secretary, David Saldoni, who in the previous executive already had them under his tutelage as secretary of organization for Jordi Sànchez and has come out of the congressional process in an advantageous position.
The amendment proposed by the Junts del Berguedà assembly that asked to eliminate the exceptions in the sanctions for cases with corruption convictions that are considered lawfare, so that Borràs is not expelled if she is convicted of the alleged splitting of contracts at the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, has retired. Thus, it will be the guarantee commission, which is elected this Sunday, in charge of deciding whether it is a case of lawfare (legal war) or not.
In the ideological field, it is advocated to abolish the inheritance and donation tax, the door is opened to reduce or eliminate the wealth tax, it is requested to reduce personal income tax in the highest bracket from 50% to 45% (in Catalonia) and raise the minimum exempt from paying taxes, among other fiscal measures. In addition, a clear commitment to the European Union and NATO is expressed in the field of foreign action.
