For some, it is sine qua non condition to negotiate the 2024 budgets. For the others, Red line that would prevent their support. The PSC and the Comuns, partners of the Government in the 2023 budgets, put the president Pere Aragones between a rock and a hard place on account of the macro-leisure complex of the hard rock. While the group of Salvador Illa demands that the urban master plan be approved before the end of the year, Jessica Albiach warns that this project must be discarded, especially in a context of severe drought. For now, in the Generalitat they maintain the suspense and subject the final verdict to the environmental report finalized by the Climate Action department.
“If the conditions are not met, it cannot be done”the minister said this week David Mascort. Some statements that set off alarm bells among the socialists, while the expectation arose among the Comuns that it is still possible to overthrow him. For the PSC, the fact that this report detects deficits should not directly translate into the Hard Rock not being built, but it understands that it is Government obligation ensure that they are resolved so that it can move forward. In the budget agreement sealed for this year, the Government committed to approving the master plan during the first half of the year, something that, for now, has not happened. Hence the socialists press for have “guarantees” that what was signed will be complied with if a new alliance is wanted for the 2024 accounts. In fact, this very Friday, Illa has warned the Government that will not support new budgets without the guarantee that the current agreement will be fulfilled: “They don’t fool me twice”he said in an interview with Efe.
An impossible sum without the PSC or Junts
However, En Comú Podem claims the opposite and raises the tone in the face of an infrastructure that, in the words of Albiach in an interview on ACN, encourages “the gambling addiction and money laundering”the “presence of mafias” and a water consumption equivalent to that of a city of 30,000 inhabitants in the middle of a drought. “Aragonès must say no to the largest casino in Europe in Camp de Tarragona,” he says. For the Comuns, Junts and PSC – both favorable to the macrocomplex – they defend a country model “that is further to the right than Pedro Sánchez“The paradox is that, despite this consideration, it is not arithmetically possible to approve new accounts if one of those two parties – socialists and post-convergent parties – do not give their ‘yes’.
It is not the only antagonistic demand made by the PSC and the Comuns, since both maintain an irreconcilable disagreement over the need to expand the Barcelona airport and the construction of the Ronda Nord -the B-40- between Sabadell and Terrassa. The socialists maintain that the agreement for this road layout will be approved before the twelve bells ring and call on the Government to appoint its representatives to the technical commission to address the debate on El Prat. For the party of Ada ColauHowever, the condition is that “not a single euro is allocated” to these projects, an argument that allowed the 2023 agreement to be saved by considering that the agreement between ERC and the PSC regarding infrastructure was “euphemistic” and did not include budget items.
The most probable sum
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The three macroprojects are also anathema for the CUP, which this time has shown itself willing to negotiate and has presented a “minimum” proposal on the table. And, at the other extreme, there is Junts, which, like the PSC, defends these infrastructures and which, for now, is playing the game in the round of contacts despite the fact that it continues to fight with ERC. Given this scenario, what will you do? the Government of Pere Aragonès?. The starting point is to negotiate with the four parties, but in the Palau de la Generalitat they know that the balance of the negotiation is likely to end up tipping towards the socialists and the Comuns. The reason is simple: all parties have an incentive to reach an agreement. If the PSC and the Comuns do not support the Catalan accounts, ERC will not support the state ones and vice versa. This possibility of a crossed veto It is, right now, the main engine that can move things.
What Aragonès has achieved so far is that both PSC and Comuns and Junts see favorably the income tax reduction to incomes of less than 33,000 euros, a measure that appears in the budget accompanying law. This is, right now, a possible starting point.