“Aligning with the opposition, which they demonize so much, to vote against the Government in the last three months, independence is not achieved either,” the ‘president’ of the Generalitat snapped at the control session on Wednesday, Pere Aragonesto the leader of Junts in Parliament, Albert Batet. The exchange was impregnated with a tension that has already become routine after the breakup of the Executive, with the Parliament as the main ‘ring’ between ex-partners. It had been just a week since ERC had exhibited the budget agreement with the PSC, the same time that post-convergence has been waving the ghost of a new tripartite in Catalonia. The Republicans reply, in turn, that a “sociovergence”.
The reality is that both one and the other agree with Salvador Illa, that takes advantage of the rift between independentistas to gain centrality. Although the Republicans have agreed on the most important law of the mandate with the PSC to breathe oxygen into their minority government, Junts has intensified the relationship with the Socialists since they sit on the opposition bench. Since his departure from the Government, they have concocted up to eight parliamentary tripping for ERC to crash into the Catalan Chamber on account of its minority of only 33 deputies.
The law of the statistical plan, lying down
Not even two weeks had passed since the breakup when the first setback Parliamentarian for ERC. With the vocation of making it clear that from that moment they would not give up from the opposition, the post-convergents dropped the statistical plan law despite the fact that it was prepared by the ex-minister Jaume Giro. His vote was key, since the PSC voted against. Junts ended up abstaining, a decision that the Republicans dismissed as “sterile tacticism” and, therefore, forced the first defeat de Aragonès in the Parliament after the independence divorce with the argument that the law would be applied “without a vision of the State”. Junts accuses the Republicans of having renounced the goal of independence after the budget pact and the penal reform agreed with the PSOE in Congress.
Motion against the occupations
It was in the same plenary session in which the statistical plan law was overthrown, on October 20, when a motion by Junts prospered agreed with the PSC to facilitate the eviction of “criminal occupations”an initiative that was preceded by the controversy recruitment of Desokupa by the Premià de Dalt City Council (governed by Junts and PSC), which ended up rescinding the contract. In this case, which was the prologue to the law that was approved this week to make it easier for city councils to promote evictions of large property owners in 30 days. ERC abstained. It was approved thanks also to the votes of Ciutadans and PP.
Blocking the commission of vulture funds
On November 10, ERC, the CUP and the Comuns registered a resolution proposal to create a commission of research on the Vulture funds. Although the three invited the PSC and Junts to join, the former distanced themselves from the initiative and the latter presented amendments that were not accepted by the promoters because they considered that they “distorted” the purpose of the commission. Even so, the proposal has not yet been voted on in plenary session because, according to complaints from the proponent, socialist and post-convergent parties, they prevent board of spokespersons to be included in the plenary session agenda.
The mockery of the minority
get mad at the government minority of ERC has been a transversal objective of the opposition, especially during the first months, either forcing it to lose votes or, also, in the symbolic field. In this last plane is the motion that Junts also promoted in the plenary session of November 10 for the Parliament to verify “the loss of confidence of the parliamentary majority” that allowed the investiture of Aragonès. It was also approved with the votes of the PSC, the CUP and the Comuns. ERC, resigned because the majority was overwhelming, he abstained.
The setback with the nuclear transition fund
The fact that the PSC and Junts joined forces on December 15 to urgently modify the nuclear transition fund has been one of the actions that has irritated the Republicans the most in recent months. It was validated by a single reading and Ciutadans also voted in favor, while the Comuns abstained and the ERC and the CUP voted against. The match of oriol junqueras He then charged against a modification that he considers was made with “partisan” criteria and “with his back turned” to the territorial consensus in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l’Ebre.
The threat of opposition budgets
What should have been a mere formality, the validation of the decree law of extension budget while there were no new accounts, ended up being a trap for Aragones. The PSC and Junts agreed again in plenary session on January 25 to be processed as billa formula that allowed them to have an open path to, through amendments, sneak games and counteract the strategy of going decree by decree that the ‘president’ reserved as plan b if the negotiation of the 2023 budgets was blown up. This scenario augured such Way of the Cross for the Government that increased the urgency to close an agreement with the PSC, as finally happened at the expense, yes, of the great transfer of ERC with the B-40.
The fast track occupations law
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After the motion on the occupations, Junts began to thread its law so that the municipalities can promote evictions of flats from large forks in 30 days. On January 25, and hand in hand with the PSC, Ciutadans and the PP, it approved the processing of on the fast track. In fact, the post-convergents negotiated with the orange party and they agreed to withdraw a proposal along the same lines but that they had promoted by ordinary means. Last Wednesday the norm was definitively approved, although in a decaf version because ERC negotiated the exclusion of the neighboring communities from the possibility of resorting to the courts. Finally, the Republicans reluctantly voted in favor of a law that they argued had a majority to prosper and that they only had the possibility of intervening for a “damage control”.
The rebuff to the estate tax decree
The Government managed to validate the decree to equate the estate tax to that of great fortunes and guarantee that these extra resources are for the Generalitat. Even so, the vote was soulless, since ERC only obtained the support of the CUP and the Comuns, while the PSC and Junts abstained and Ciutadans, PP and Vox voted against.