unravel the investment of hard rock in the leisure complex of Vila-seca and Salou as a prerequisite for budgets. This is the demand posed by the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illato the ‘president’ Pere Aragones, who has made ugly that paralyze projects of this caliber. The requirement, advanced by EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA and verbalized by the head of the opposition in an interview on TV-3, is quite a torpedo for negotiation that ERC maintains with the ‘communs’ – who have been fighting the US company’s plan for years – and may hinder the approval schedule of the accounts provided by the Government.
The meeting in Palau this Thursday did not last even an hour. “It hasn’t gone well”, recognize the Socialists, despite the fact that Illa, who has revealed that he has seen Aragonès this week, has stated that he believes that the agreement will end up arriving. The question is when, because to begin with they will start up until six working groups starting this Friday. The Executive has expressed his “surprise” because the socialists have attended the fifth meeting in Palau “without specific budgetary proposals” and only with political proposals “without connection” to the accounts such as that of the hard rock, also defended by Junts. But the PSC replies that it has not gone empty-handed and has raised “five powerful projects” They do have an impact on budgets.
Facing the new meeting this Friday they will try to iron out rough edges and, now yes, get into the matter by subject. “I hope we start a intense negotiation with their proposals, because to this day we have not been at this level”, assured the ‘Councillor’ of the Presidency, Laura Vilagra, addressing the socialist bench in his appearance in Parliament. But Illa warns that “the rush” that the Government is now going to translate into an “adherence”. The negotiation, he has stressed, will be “demanding”.
The PSC wants to collect months of rejected outstretched hand -since August 22, they remember- and points out that to reach a good port with the accounts it is necessary to arrange a “reunion” in Catalonia and build trust that now “doesn’t exist”. Until now, the leader of the PSC had assured that he will approach a negotiation in terms “strictly budgetary”that is to say, without mixing other folders that do not stick to the economic debate.
The intention of the Government was to be able to give the go-ahead to the project next week so that the entire debate would reach Parliament before the end of the year, but executive sources suspect that the intention of the Socialists is now to extend the calendar. “We do not want to extend the budgets much longer and, if the final approval is in March or April, we will have lost four months“, they warn from Palau.
The dialogue will also continue this Friday with the ‘communs’, with whom the Government has already agreed that the reduction of public transport that it depends on the Generalitat to be extended throughout 2023, that it be free for those under 16 years of age and that the T-Jove be extended to 30 years of age, a measure that Aragonès already announced during the general policy debate.No progress with Junts
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According to negotiating sources, at the moment they are approaching the folder of housing and energy measures. The ‘communs’ also claim as essential for the pact that 25% of the Salut budget be allocated to primary care and a crash plan of 1,000 million to help citizens cope with inflation. Albiach has once again insisted that, although there is progress, it is “unfeasible” that the global agreement is close.
With Junts there is still no rapprochement after they have exposed a decalogue of proposals with a reduction in personal income tax included. According to the party president, Laura Borraswhat ERC is doing is, after having propped up the budgets of Pedro SanchezNow “prioritize” the PSC in Catalonia because with them it has not yet gone beyond technical meetings.