The leader of the opposition in Catalonia and of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has requested a meeting with the new president of Parliament, Anna Erra, with whom he is willing to discuss the "great challenges" facing Catalonia and the "new stage" that opens in the Catalan Chamber after the replacement of Laura Borràs.
Illa has sent a letter to Erra in which she formally requests the meeting and in which she also takes the opportunity to congratulate the vice president of JxCat on her recent election as president of the Parliament of Catalonia.
The letter is singularly brief: "I am writing to you in my capacity as president of the Socialistes Units per Avançar parliamentary group and head of the opposition to formally request a meeting and to be able to share together the great challenges that Catalonia and this new stage facing the fourth Catalan", he points out.
The meeting requested by Illa, if accepted, should be scheduled in the middle of a week with various issues on the new president's agenda. Although the initially planned monographic plenary session on education will not finally appear on that agenda, the Catalan Chamber must make room for the request for the appearance of the president, Pere Aragonès, to explain the changes in the Government made this Monday.
Erra will preside over a meeting of spokespersons for this purpose on Tuesday and, next Thursday and Friday, he will preside over the scheduled regular plenary session, in which important issues for the future of the Parliament presidency will be discussed. These are the three bills to modify the statutes of presidents -of the Chamber and of the Generalitat- that, at the initiative of PSC, En Comú Podem and Ciudadanos, seek to eliminate pensions and remuneration after dismissal for cases in which presidents are convicted of corruption.
In any case, Erra's first meeting after his election was not with the opposition leader or with President Aragonès. Her first meeting as president of Parliament was this Sunday with the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, in Waterloo (Belgium).
