PSC and commons see a “weaker” Government if it is not based on a progressive majority

The new government of the Generalitat is now "weaker than a week ago" as a result of the declared intentions of the Republicans not to have parliamentary groups like the PSC, especially for the next budgets.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
10 October 2022 Monday 14:33
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PSC and commons see a “weaker” Government if it is not based on a progressive majority

The new government of the Generalitat is now "weaker than a week ago" as a result of the declared intentions of the Republicans not to have parliamentary groups like the PSC, especially for the next budgets. Although the Government, with its new composition, boasts of representing 80% of citizens, socialists and ordinary citizens remind Pere Aragonès that he only has the support of the 33 deputies (those from ERC), 21.3% of the parliamentary arch , and that "it would be irresponsible" to end up extending the next budgets of the Generalitat.

Without Junts in the Govern, the accounts, which were practically closed with En Comú Podem, return to the starting box. The postconvergents, who will go on to exercise a fierce opposition to the Executive of Pere Aragonès, will surely not give them support, nor will the CUP or the rest of the right-wing parties, so their approval will depend on the PSC and the commons, who are willing to negotiate but they find an ERC strategy that collides with this predisposition.

The commons are no longer so decisive to approve them, the socialists are required, but the ERC raises the veto to agree with the PSC even though those of Salvador Illa maintain their predisposition to the agreement to show once again that the blocks are in pieces. So in the Government they see it as plausible to extend this year's accounts because neither the PSC nor the commons are willing to give support without making it clear that governance passes through them. "We would have to start (to negotiate) because we will not support anything with a blank check," warned the spokesman for the commons, Joan Mena.

The Socialist spokesperson, Elia Tortolero, has responded to the ERC's veto over her party by calling on Aragonès to "reflect" because the PSC "will continue to reach out to have budgets with high-mindedness". They are budgets that would have 3,098 million more and “That we cannot let lose”, he warned.

Aware that if the veto does not fall they will not be able to give their support, the Socialists urge the president "to explain how" he intends to approve them, "with whom". For now, the head of the Government has acted according to an "electoral calculation ” when “it is time to solve problems, to give peace of mind and to order Catalan politics”, he has recriminated.

The commons do not see a future for this Government either if the president does not rectify the fait accompli strategy that he has taken with the remodeling of his cabinet without first having parliamentary support tied. The purple formation would like the president to commit to a progressive majority because a government without it “is a dead letter, it is useless” and “it does not solve the problems of the Catalans”.

According to Mena, Aragonès has "started the house from the roof" by appointing a new government without having counted on that progressive majority that the commons and the PSC would endow, however, the president has decided to remodel his Executive with people close to the two progressive parties but without counting on them. The result, according to the commons, is that Aragonès persists in "misgovernment" and "instability", when what he should do is explore that "progressive majority".

Neither socialists nor common people had prior knowledge of the election of two ministers close to each party: Quim Nadal as minister of Universitat, and Gemma Ubasart as minister of Justice, but they have not welcomed it with surprise either. In the case of Nadal, the socialists recall that he has not been a militant since 2016 and that he "is free to make the decisions that he must." And in that of Ubasart, the common people do not see it as a nod to his space and warn Aragonès that he will have to sweat his shirt if he wants to have the support of the 8 deputies they have in Parliament.