Junts marks the 28-M elections as a plebiscite between "solvency and incompetence"

The management of the monocolor Government of Pere Aragonès is one of the veins that Junts per Catalunya is trying to exploit in this campaign for the municipal elections.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
22 May 2023 Monday 11:00
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Junts marks the 28-M elections as a plebiscite between "solvency and incompetence"

The management of the monocolor Government of Pere Aragonès is one of the veins that Junts per Catalunya is trying to exploit in this campaign for the municipal elections. With the chaos of the oppositions and the difficulty of the Catalan Executive to approve a decree due to the still recent problems of the drought, the formation attributes the label of "incompetence" to the Republicans.

For this reason, in JxCat they have marked this Friday from Vilafranca del Penedès the appointment of May 28 as a plebiscite between "solvency and incompetence", and the president of the post-convergent group in Parliament, Albert Batet, has demanded a "reprimand" from the Government by management. "It cannot continue like this", the deputy has sentenced.

The party's general secretary, Jordi Turull, has also targeted the Aragonès ministers, whom he has accused of "sectarianism" for linking some of their promises to the votes that ERC receives. "We will attend to the people, vote what they vote and think what they think," he added.

In the same sense, in the morning, the formation, from Olot, has claimed that the winners of 28-M "govern for the whole world", without "sectarianism or incompetence"

But in addition, Turull has entered into hand-to-hand combat with the PSC and its leader, Salvador Illa, whom he reproached for speaking of the "culture of complaints." “They plunder us fiscally, they deceive us year after year in investments, they have us in poverty on the railway and they look the other way every time a resolution says that they step on fundamental rights and freedoms and Salvador Illa still comes to tell us that we are from the culture of the complaint”, has reproached the leader of Junts, who has added that what the Catalan socialists propose is “pay, obey and shut up”.

"We neither obey, nor give up nor resign ourselves," countered the JxCat leader, who pointed out that he would be ashamed "to be from a party that is more concerned with stopping Carles Puigdemont than fixing the Rodalies situation."

In the Catalan capital, the candidacy of Xavier Trias in recent days has also highlighted his discrepancies with the PSC and requires the socialist candidate, Jaume Collboni, to clarify whether he is willing to re-invest Ada Colau.

On the other hand, both Turull and Batet celebrated the JxCat agreement with the local brand Impulsem Penedès at the meeting, which brought together several mayors and councilors from the convergent orbit who had not made the move to JxCat.