The agreements reached yesterday between Junts and the PSOE to allow the validation of two of the three decrees presented by the Government affect the Generalitat, in particular the delegation of powers regarding immigration, which are specific to the State, to the administration. Catalan. For this reason, the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, sent a message this Thursday to the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, to request information about them, according to reports from the Presidency. The minister, who in an interview on TVE confirmed contacts this morning with the Generalitat, has promised in another message to offer this information.
Government sources, who rule out any contact between the president of the Generalitat and Félix Bolaños or Pedro Sánchez, indicate that they will be in favor of anything that involves having more powers, but they are not concerned about the proposal of which they do not yet know its nature. scope. "First we have to see what it is about," they warn. Furthermore, the same sources believe that trying to advance an organic law as Junts and the PSOE intend, with the necessary vote of Bildu, BNG, Podemos or the ERC itself, on immigration may fall on deaf ears in a short time.
That JxCat's immigration proposal is a sensitive issue for Esquerra is evidenced by the words of the ERC spokesperson in Madrid, Teresa Jordà, this afternoon. "I can't think anything other than that Junts aims to improve people's lives... then they can make the wrong ideology and we may have different points of view on how people's lives are improved," she pointed out. In any case, Jordà has shown her party's willingness to collaborate in everything that "improves the lives of citizens." But she has warned again about the agreements reached between the PSOE and Junts: "The statements are one thing and the fine print another."
Likewise, Palau sources point out another factor. Like Junts per Catalunya, the Republicans sense that the Spanish legislature will be short. Parliamentary arithmetic forces Sánchez to agree exclusively with each and every one of the political formations that allowed his inauguration. And with the foreseeable approval of the amnesty law, and with the Catalan elections on the horizon, the electoral interests of Esquerra and Junts could destabilize the third term of the socialist leader.
Jordà had put words to those doubts of the Government before, on TV3, in the morning. He pointed out that "some of the things" agreed upon had already been discussed by the Republicans with the socialists. "The Government of the country must say its thing, there are many hours of work," said the Republican deputy, who has claimed that Esquerra has negotiated "facts" such as the transfer of the minimum vital income (IMV), which each autonomous community will be able to manage it if you request it. In contrast to Junts, the ERC deputy replied that the Republicans "are not in P1 to negotiate with the PSOE."
"Surely more could have been negotiated, but we are very proud of what was agreed," he said. He has also expressed doubts about the proposal to sanction or reward companies that left Catalonia during the process. He stated that he is a "headline", "talking for the sake of talking", he noted. "How do we land it? In the end it is noise," he reaffirmed.
