The Junts ultimatum to ERCof August 29, blew up the plan established by Pere Aragones for the beginning of this fall. Like an alchemist, the ‘president’ always tries to find the precise dose to make his speeches for big occasions, for example, next Tuesday’s at the general policy debate. The two great ingredients of the message that he will present in the Chamber of the Parliament are the march of the economy and the ‘process‘.
Before the panorama that the experts draw for the next months, with the runaway inflation and the purchasing power of citizens in decline, Aragonès had in mind to focus efforts on the fight against the crisis. It was a first step taken from the conviction that this is what the times require, but also from the need to tie up the support of the ‘comuns’ to 2023 budgetstrue almost strategic objective of Aragonès to guarantee stability in Catalonia.
Hence, as EL PERIÓDICO has learned, the head of the Government will announce the launch of a new shock plan to contain the ravages of the looming crisis on several fronts. It is an aid package, above all direct, to mitigate the effects of inflation. With special attention to the families, households vulnerable, the youthsthe SMEsand, also, measures to favor the energy transition. The partners have held meetings this weekend in order to close the complete package, even though it is already expected that it will be open to suggestions from the groups. The Ministry of Economy, in charge of James Girohas worked side by side with the Ministry of Presidency, of Laura Vilagraand the president’s cabinet.
On the one hand, there are measures of immediate effect and, others, which will depend, precisely, on the approval of the Catalan accounts. That is to say, the hook pennant for the ‘comuns’, they think of the Palau de la Generalitat, if they want a decisive action by the Generalitat in the crisis. In addition, you want the Executiu to have a behavior reagentwith reflexes, and is capable of modifying and expanding said plan based on the economic and political developments that take place.
The impact of the ‘procés’
As for the ‘procesista’ folder, it is in a kind of ‘impasse’ waiting for progress to be made in the dejudicialization agreed upon by the Generalitat and the Government at the dialogue table. The one that can be advertised as the achievement of the thaw, and the one that doesn’t. The first, legislative changes that require majorities in Congress with January 1 as the limit for the Government, due to the fact that the electoral year begins. All this, with Junts and the CUP betting on finishing the forum and, in the background, the municipal elections of May 2023.
The alchemy of Aragonès threatened to go to waste due to the post-convergence ultimatum. Three weeks it has taken the ‘president’ to return the wagons to the rails where they circulated. Junts’ discovery that this ‘pressing’ turned around like a boomerang and endangering the very integrity, not only of the Government, but of the own party, plus the triumph of the most moderate theses, against the most ‘activist’ in the internal elections have brushed the ultimatum until leaving it with the blunt form, no puncture. Thus, the ‘alchemist’ can return, if not to the doses of ‘procés’ crisis that he imagined, to very similar ones. With modifications.
Aragonès will have to put more vehemently in the form to the national question, even when the substance is what I already planned. The proposal for a “broad front for self-determination”, whose implementation remains a mystery but which, according to government sources, is intended as a complement to the work of the dialogue and negotiation table.
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And it is not about looking for a mobilization in the street to pressure the Government in that negotiation. Or “not only”, as these sources point out, suggesting that this newly minted proposal will have some institutional leg intertwined with society, not only the entities already convinced, the independentistas, but unions and sovereignist parties. An exit that allows him not to have to give in to the three conditions of Junts, but that serves as a leg to tighten in the negotiation with the State, exhibiting unity and support in terms of summoning the Catalans to the polls again so that they can pronounce themselves on the independence of Catalonia.
The proposal was announced by Aragonès himself before the ultimatum With what can be ruled out that it is an initiative aimed at calming the most emboldened independence movement because it will not go in the direction of ending the dialogue table. Quite the contrary. Is about strengthen the republican strategybased on the negotiation and in the sum of forces, the famous broadening of the base with which it is intended to reach, not only the independentists, but “all the democrats”, as Aragonès himself pointed out last week, in the belief that the most inclusive option, the meeting point among all the positions on the future status of Catalonia, are the ballot boxes.