It was an anomaly that Pere Aragonès continued as president with only 33 of the 135 deputies supporting him in the Parliament. He presided over a government with assisted respiration since Junts left the Executive in October 2022 for unconvincing reasons.
The budgets have been the cause and pretext for Aragonès to decide to advance the elections to May 12. For strategic reasons, but also because of the agony of a government that had run out of fuel, with a road map that led nowhere.
The trigger for the budget setback was a macro leisure complex in Salou, the Hard Rock, which does not exist and possibly will not exist. It was not even in the budget project that was knocked down on Wednesday in Parliament and that has passed away with hundreds of millions of euros that will not be invested.
Salvador Illa's PSC supported ERC, but the votes of the common people were required to move the budgets forward. In the apparent interdependence between the governments of Catalonia and Spain, the mechanisms were activated. Aragonès pressured Pedro Sánchez to, in turn, tell Yolanda Díaz to inform Jéssica Albiach that the processing of the Catalan budgets had to be approved on the eve of the day on which, precisely, the law of Amnesty.
The commoners said no. There have been no budgets in Catalonia nor will there be any in Spain. Díaz loses the waning strength that he had in the coalition government when it is demonstrated that he does not control the Sumar franchise in Catalonia. The commons have shot themselves in the foot and have deepened the political rift that is widening between Sánchez and Díaz, a coalition that is going through very low hours.
The electoral battle will have two scenarios: the one between the pro-independence parties and the one between the PSC and the commons. We will have to see how much the PP and Vox and the parties split from the independence movement achieve. In short, which candidate will be able to have the absolute majority to be invested. Oh, and let's see what they say about education, health, Europe, immigration, drought, agriculture, poverty, infrastructure... After so many debates about what we are, we have to move on to what we do. The political authority of a good government is missing.
