Rufián, to Sánchez: "What is your word worth?"

The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has demanded that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, among other things, foster "a climate of trust" to "advance" with his party in the legislature, that is, that " your word is worth something" in allusion to the commitments made at the dialogue table regarding the dejudicialization of the conflict in Catalonia.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
13 October 2022 Thursday 05:32
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Rufián, to Sánchez: "What is your word worth?"

The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has demanded that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, among other things, foster "a climate of trust" to "advance" with his party in the legislature, that is, that " your word is worth something" in allusion to the commitments made at the dialogue table regarding the dejudicialization of the conflict in Catalonia.

The Republican leader has intervened during the appearance of the Chief Executive in Congress to accuse him of "always failing to comply in social matters and always complying in military matters" due to the increase of more than 25% in Defense spending in the general State budgets designed by the Government in addition to reproaching him for non-compliance and false promises.

In any case, Rufián has made it clear to Sánchez what are the lines he must follow to understand himself with ERC from now on: "comply with what is not fulfilled, improve what was promised and foster a climate of trust, that is to say that his word is worth something" .

And he has focused on this last issue before "those who say that the repression has ended and that this Government is committed to dialogue." "Today in Catalonia there are seven people still exiled and persecuted by the Supreme Court for a referendum, 1,500 defendants pending a fine or jail for a referendum, 28 charges in the National High Court for a referendum, nine partially pardoned political leaders who cannot appear to the elections due to a referendum, 15 mayors sentenced for opening an electoral college in a referendum, 54 people persecuted by the Court of Accounts for a referendum, 65 people spied on with Pegasus", the Esquerra spokesman snapped, who asked his ladies and gentlemen of the socialist caucus if they believe that something can be negotiated in this way.

"What is your word worth?" Rufián asked Sánchez, whom he has ordered not to do this -foster a climate of trust through dejudicialization- "to make Catalonia happy" but rather "for its democracy".

In any case, the Republican spokesman has insisted that "we do not know if they will be the most social budgets in the history of mankind, what we do know will be the most militaristic in history" and has broken down what he understands by breaches in the social. Thus, he has reproached him for the fact that of the 1,200 million euros budgeted for railways in Catalonia in 2022, only 191, 16%, have been executed, while "a lot of people get up worried about knowing if they are going to get to work". "It sounds like a scam to have a free train pass and be left lying on a shoulder," the ERC leader has pressed.

Rufián has also made it ugly that the Government increases transfers to town halls by 2% while forcing them to assume the rise in the salaries of their officials with what the municipal entities "lose" and has wondered where is the Housing Law that the coalition Executive promised to approve to cap rents and curb the abuses of the large holders. Finally, he lamented that although the labor reform "looks very good in the month-to-month statistics, the reality is that failure to pass the trial period has risen 1,000% because employers do not have to justify it." "What is the use of having a permanent contract if you can be fired in the same way as if you were temporary? He has asked himself.

Previously, the ERC spokesman had warned that in front of the war in Ukraine there is another war in the world, "the cultural war of the right and the extreme right that is killing democracy." And he has condemned the speech that, in his opinion, summons "the young intern to hate his grandfather for what he charges." After acknowledging that the pension item goes up month by month, Rufián has warned those who complain about it, the extreme right, that the only alternative is "inhumanity as a model of government" which is what, in his opinion, this ideology. In line with this, he has recalled that the only time this item stopped rising was in May 2020 in the midst of the covid pandemic when a large number of pensioners died in residences. "The public pension system should not be hated, but rather the tax system of this country, which has spent 40 years pampering an artistocracy that thinks that Spain is its inheritance," he concluded.

Finally, Rufián has demanded that the Executive fight against the enormous inequality, he has reproached him for "miserliness" in it and has urged him to "less announce and more legislate." Thus, he has summoned the Council of Ministers to accelerate and intensify the tax on large fortunes, cap food prices and basic needs and approve humanistic policies such as free preschool education, a four-day weekly workday or a public mental health plan. .