Illa bets on some accounts that represent “80%” of the hemicycle, but warns that her party will not sign a blank check
The first secretary of PSC, Salvador Islandhas called on the Government to design a draft budgets for 2023 that generates the maximum possible support, as happened when the socialists, CKD, together Y ‘commons‘ agreed on a bill in defense of Catalan at school: “If it could be 80%, 80%, without excluding anyone”.
In an interview with Europa Press, he defended that, given the current economic context, it is convenient to have accounts for next year and with a broad base of support: “If I were president of the Generalitat, my priority would be to build a budget for 2023 with as broad a base as possible. Let me give you an example, the Catalan agreement. What gives strength to the Catalan agreement? 80% support“.
After a first contact of a technical nature with the ‘conseller’ of Economy, James Giro, Illa has offered the availability of her group to speak, which is not the same as offering “no blank check”. He also recalled that last year they reached out their hand to talk about the accounts and that it was not possible, given that the Government finally approved them with the abstention of the ‘comun’s: “It is legitimate, but if the 2022 budget was already convenient, 2023 is even more convenient.”
When asked if he will ask for a meeting with the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragoneshas assured that it is not up to him to take the initiative, but he has defended that an important message would be given if some budgets “with a very broad base of agreement” were approved in Catalonia.
“What budget is convenient? The one that has a broader base of agreement, and I will act in coherence with this. Are we talking? No, do I have availability? Yes. Shall I sign a blank check? No,” summarized Illa, who He believes that all this will force an exercise in dialogue and concessions, as with the Catalan agreement.
According to Ilha, Catalan society asks for substantive consensus like that of the Catalan, an agreement that “was not easy, but it was worth it” because their formation, ERC, Junts and the ‘comuns’ managed to agree.
On whether the PSC is about to eliminate the Inheritance and Donations tax, as requested by Junts, it has refused to eliminate them because it considers that, in the current economic context, income cannot be dispensed with. “The PSC is for study seriously the fiscal framework of Cataloniabut at this time it is not appropriate to eliminate taxation”, Illa has maintained.
Dialogue without Junts
The socialist leader has also made a good assessment of the agreements of the dialogue table to advance in the dejudicialization of the conflict and to protect Catalan and has admitted that it would have been better if Junts had also attended the meeting and has criticized that they do not believe in this way to try to resolve the Catalan conflictalthough they demand the right to self-determination and amnesty.
“Initiating a dialogue trying to impose an agenda of issues and vetoing others does not seem to me to be the best strategy”, has influenced the first secretary of the PSC, who asks to respect that they defend that the meeting point between the Catalans goes through an improvement of the Catalan self-government and of financing.
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On whether the dialogue table should address the reform of the crime of sedition and other aspects of the Penal Codehas assured that it was a commitment of the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezbut “it is important that there is a majority that gives guarantees that this can go ahead.
In addition, he has reproached again that Catalonia has not yet promoted the table of Catalan parties: “It is difficult to explain why dialogue is demanded and not practiced by those who ask for it in Catalonia”, he added.