With almost the same words, Junts and the PSC will force the Parliament to confirm “lack of confidence“ of a parliamentary majority in relation to the current Government of the Generalitat. The two parties, and necessary partners of the ‘president’ Pere Aragones To continue with the legislature, they have registered – separately – similar texts that will be voted on Friday within the framework of the general policy debate.
A year after the breakup of the Government, Junts accuses the executive of “weakness, instability and lack of foresight to face the challenges that Catalonia faces”; while the text of the PSC, with whom Aragonès agreed on the last budgets, accuses the executive of “lack of direction” and “disorientation when setting the country’s priorities.”
And they are not the only ones. The Common, also partners of the latest accounts, reproach in one of their resolution proposals Aragonès’ “lack of leadership and legislative initiative.” Even so, in the same text that will be voted on Friday and where they blame the Government for its “lack of capacity” to “meet and execute” the 2023 budgets, they also urge it to present a budget proposal for 2024. They do not do so. does the CUP, despite having been very critical of the Government in their speeches this Wednesday.
The Government disdains these proposals and remembers that the ability to call elections or present a motion of confidence is only the ‘president’, and that the opposition can only present a motion of censure with an alternative candidate for the presidency, something that none of them the groups arise. The opposite, they warn, is twisting parliamentary mechanisms and has no value.
Amnesty and self-determination
But beyond this proposal, Junts will also put to the vote its underlying conditions for eventual support for the PSOE in Pedro Sánchez’s investiture: amnesty, self-determination and official status of Catalan in the European Union (EU).
Regarding the amnesty, Junts claims that it means “the complete and effective abandonment of judicial proceedings against the independence movement“and make it clear that this movement “is just as democratic and legitimate as any political option”, as well as that it represents a commitment to “resolve a political conflict through politics and not from the judicial power.”
In relation to self-determination, Junts asks in its resolution “the national recognition of Catalonia and, therefore, its right to self-determination” as “democratic way to resolve the conflict“with the only limits of “international agreements and treaties that refer to human rights (individual and collective) and fundamental freedoms.”
The Junts text delves into a recognition of the 1-O and “consequently, the mandate of the people of Catalonia that emerged from the referendum can only be replaced by a referendum agreed with the State, if there is political will to assume it.”
Catalan in the EU: October 24
The post-convergence also puts to a vote another of its conditions for an eventual agreement with the PSOE: the official status of Catalan in the EU, which is why it considers “it is essential that the vote and approval on the official status of Catalan be carried out on October 24 in the European Union”.
It also demands that the Government comply with the Statute in its article 6.3 on “the recognition of the official status of Catalan in the EU and the presence and use of Catalan in international organizations and international treaties of cultural or linguistic content.”
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They add a warning, regarding the non-official recognition of Catalan in the European institutions, which would mean “a comparative offense for Catalan speakers in relation to the rest of the speakers of the official languages of the EU.”
Claims and criticism of the Government
In its resolutions, Junts also demands the transfer of powers over the Rodalies railway network, support for women’s sports and the rejection of “sexist violence” in the sporting world. It also includes claims in relation to the fight against drought, administrative simplification, renewable energy, a reduction in personal income tax taxes (reducing the regional section from 10.5% to 10%) and deflating all sections by 3.5%. , among other issues.