The educational reform announced by Pedro Sánchez has not gone down well with the Palau de la Generalitat. The president Pere Aragones This Monday he criticized him for having made the announcement “at a PSOE rally” of the Galician electoral campaign and “without entrusting himself to anyone.” That is, without taking into account the opinion of the autonomies that must be, ultimately, in charge of apply this reform.
In a interview on Catalunya Ràdio, the president wanted to contrast the Sánchez method with his own. If the President of the Government made the announcement at a party event, recalled that the Government made its latest decisions on educational matters after summoning all the opposition parties at a meeting at the Palau de la Generalitat. “In Catalonia we have tried to achieve an educational consensus,” she claimed.
The president has not gone into the substance of Sánchez’s proposal, which passes to reinforce mathematics and reading comprehension, and has stated that he first wants to see “the small print” of the proposal. “Now we only have the headlines from a rally,” she defended herself. He did want to make it clear that it seems to him that the PSOE is approaching the issue with an original error: “It cannot be that there is a fundamental change to then swerve again“.
With this matter it is reproduced the same scheme that occurred with the recent controversy over the delegation of immigration powers: the Government He feels uncomfortable having learned from the press about a decision that completely affects him. Aragonese He has assured that the Generalitat does not renounce any competition, both “the easy ones and the difficult ones”, but that it first wants to see the “concretions”.
The president of the Generalitat He also wanted to speak out on the expulsion of repeat offenders, something that Junts vehemently defends. According to Aragonès, Catalonia will not be able to make any decision in this regard, not even with the immigration powers transferred to the Generalitat. “This is not decided by Catalonia or Spain. This is decided by a judge“, he defended.
According to him, the immigration debate should not be focused on security, but from inclusion and the fight against poverty. That is to say, for the president the emphasis should be placed on the integration of migrants to “avoid the ghettos” and ensure that the second generation of these migrants “don’t feel excluded from society”. In short, avoid the problems that have been detected in France.
“We are a bit provincial”
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The next conflict What is looming for the Generalitat is the possibility of losing the Formula 1 grand prix that is organized every year in Catalonia in benefit of the Community of Madrid. This weekend the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, assumed that her community will organize it starting in 2026 to the detriment of the Catalan circuit of Montmeló.
President Aragonès has defended that, whatever happens with Madrid, the Generalitat is working to continue organizing Formula 1 starting in 2026, which is when it ends the current link. “Work is being done and positive progress is being made,” she assured. She has also regretted that from Catalonia she always has one eye on Madrid instead of focusing on his own potential: “Sometimes we are a little provincial“, it is finished.