The Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana groups act like cat and mouse in the Parliament, although the roles are exchanged depending on the issue to be discussed. The two formations clashed this Tuesday at the meeting of the board of spokespersons, in the discussion of the topics that should be included in the agenda of the next plenary session, which will take place next week.
Specifically, the two former partners have had a disagreement in relation to the full monograph requested by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, on Rodalies, which was going to be held next week, and over the conclusions of the study commission on the historical debt that was approved yesterday precisely with the vote of JxCat and ERC in the last session of that body.
From Junts they regret that ERC does not want to debate Rodalies now, after having closed an agreement with the PSOE for the partial transfer of some lines and creating shared management between the Generalitat and the State. "It was planned in the next plenary session to address the Rodalies problem and today ERC has asked to postpone the debate sine die. It was a debate that the president requested and we believe that it was for partisan reasons, it is a debate that interests thousands of citizens after the agreement that they closed with the PSOE that was said to be a comprehensive transfer and that is not the case, but rather it is co-management with the State's right of veto," denounced the JxCat spokesperson, Josep Rius.
Sources from the republican group indicate that they want to postpone the monographic plenary session on Rodalies because "the context has changed in recent weeks, especially after the agreement with the PSOE in which ERC has made significant progress for Catalonia." These sources add that Esquerra "keeps its monograph proposal alive" for the future.
Almost a month ago, on October 17, when the issues of the previous plenary session were decided, ERC criticized the alliance of Junts and the PSC to make its interests prevail and place the debate on security ahead of that requested by Aragonès regarding Rodalies, which It was set for next week. Junts then said that the search order had been followed, although in the background of the matter was the desire of the opposition groups for the Government not to take note of the claim for the transfer of the commuter network, one of the demands that ERC raised to support the investiture.
Sources from the post-convergent formation also remember that in last week's plenary session, two motions that referred to Rodalies and financing, to matters that ERC was negotiating with the socialists, were already withdrawn.
The other matter of dissent is related to the conclusions that were approved yesterday in committee. Junts has been left alone in the meeting of the board of spokespersons when asking that this issue be addressed and has criticized the Republicans and the CUP.
In this regard, ERC sources assure that the post-convergents "have delayed" the deadlines for the conclusions, which were recorded in September for the first time, and highlight that "it could be a lever of force" in the negotiation but now "it is not an issue." priority" because the committee's approval of the matter is already enough. "It is not mandatory that they be debated and approved in plenary, now there are other issues and it is not a priority," these sources argue. From the CUP they point out that they have no problem with this matter being debated, but they remember that it has been a year since the conclusions of the study commission on the police model were approved and that they have not passed through the plenary session. "We are in favor of debating them, all of them," anti-capitalist sources emphasize.
In the conclusions approved yesterday jointly by the JxCat and ERC groups, with the assistance of the CUP, a unique financing law is requested for Catalonia and the forgiveness of the entire debt of the Generalitat with the Autonomous Liquidity Fund ( FLA). "Catalonia has to be able to collect and manage all taxes, as they do in Euskadi and Navarra," said Junts deputy Joan Canadell, who is one of those who has worked on this matter.
