The foreign action of the Government of ‘president’ Pere Aragonès “it can be improved”. This is the criticism that the leader of the PSC has launched, Salvador Illaafter the series of meetings held in Brussels with leaders such as the internal market commissioner, Thierry Bretonwith the president of the Committee of the Regions, Vasco Cordeirothe vice president of the European Parliament Marc Angel or the same delegate of the Generalitat in the European capital, Ignasi Centelles. However, he has been cautious when assessing the draft law which the Catalan executive approved on Tuesday with the aim of creating a Catalan consular body.
“We will analyze it”, has limited himself to saying about the norm promoted by the ERC Government. And, immediately afterwards, he stated that he should have a “external action respectful of the limits of the Statute” and “more focused on generation of prosperity of Catalonia”, a veiled way of conveying that it considers that foreign action, especially in Brussels, has been weakened after a decade of ‘procés’. In the pact on the 2023 budgets, the socialists agreed with ERC that the opening of delegations abroad to first diagnose the operation of the existing ones.
One of the objectives that Illa has pursued since assuming the leadership of the PSC and the role of head of the opposition is that “influence” is “recovered” that Catalonia once had in the European institutions and that it considers that the Generalitat has lost, despite recognizing the efforts of Aragonès to recover them.
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In his efforts to consolidate himself as the “alternative” to the current Government, Illa tries to act as an ambassador for Catalan issues in Brussels. Also in the face of the hot negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. In addition to take advantage of the “prestige” of the PSOE Government after resisting in the last elections in a context in Europe in which there are increasingly more far-right parties that achieve government power. “Spain is strengthened when diverse and plural is recognized and accepted. Nothing is broken here,” he declared from the headquarters of the European Party.
Given the open negotiations with the independentists, he has also claimed the “two actions” that are promoting the socialists for Catalan in the European institutions: both the official routewith the October 24 Council meeting marked in red, like that of its use in plenary sessions, pending a vote at the European Parliament Board that the socialists want to take place before the end of the year. “After having spoken about it with leaders such as Vice President Angel or Mr. Cordeiro, I leave with even more confidence. There is a lot of determination for this matter to prosper,” she defended.