In Comú Podem and the PSC they have supported more decrees and bills than the anti-capitalists, investiture partners of Aragonès
Months of chaotic negotiation led to the investiture of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, for the legislature that began after the February elections. It was not easy, as almost always in the recent history of Catalonia, but the CUP decided to lend its support to a coalition government between ERC and Junts per Catalunya with decisive votes but loaded with warnings and in the face of criticism from the ‘comuns’ and the PSC, who opposed the pact but offered themselves, more or less vehemently, to parliamentary agreements.
Eight months have passed since the investiture debate, and the numbers left by the votes in Parliament fulfill some of the predictions of the interventions on that day. The Government has found in the party led by Jéssica Albiach your great ally to carry out your legislative initiatives. The ‘comuns’ have voted in favor of the validation of 12 of the 16 decree laws of the Executive, and against only three of them, according to the data compiled by EL PERIÓDICO. The purples have also been fundamental in approving the only two laws that the Government has carried out, the budget law and the one known as the ‘accompanying law’: with their abstention, they gave the green light to the coalition’s accounts for 2022.
socialist aid
Nor is the PSC far behind, which has supported more than half of the Government’s decrees, 9 of 16, and has only opposed one of them, the regulation on renewable energies. In addition, three of his six abstentions have been determining factors to allow the validation of these three decrees those opposed by the ‘comuns’: the first two that came to the Chamber and that the acting government had approved – economic measures on the pandemic and another change in the calendar of the new rate for stays in tourist establishments – and the text lottery regulation.
The purple ones have voted in favor of 13 of the 16 decrees and the abstention of the socialists has been decisive in the remaining three
Another of the pending subjects of the Catalan legislators has been the reappointment of many high-ranking parliamentary appointees, many of them accumulating five years in office waiting for majorities —a score of them have not been renewed even longer than the Judiciary. Salvador Illa, at the head of the first party in the Chamber, ended the year closing a negotiation with ERC and Junts to renew the 122 pending positions en bloc, which will have to be sealed in a vote soon. And the possible agreements do not end there. The PSC leader also wants to promote the approval of a Catalan electoral law.
If the Catalan legislature got off the ground, it was also thanks to the CUP. The anti-capitalists were going to be the partners that would provide the parliamentary majority to the government coalition, but the reality is that they opposed supporting the bills of the Executive, it has only endorsed half of its decrees, 8 of 16, and has opposed even more than the PP, 5 ‘noes’ compared to 4 ‘noes’ of the popular ones.
That the cupaires tighten the rope does not surprise anyone, not even the Government, but their support is not decisive if the ‘comuns’ end up coming to the rescue of the parliamentary majority of ERC and Junts. That of the investiture has been the only vote in which the votes in favor of the anti-system have been necessary for the coalition.
Rights anchored to ‘no’
In the right-wing votes there are no big surprises. Vox has the record of ‘noes’ to the legislative initiatives of the Government, an almost systematic vote against —13 of the 16 decrees and the two budget laws— only interrupted by the abstention in which it modifies the way in which university students must accredit a third language and the vote in favor of Catalan officials recovering partially the extra pay of 2014, the only standard that has been approved unanimously.
The CUP, which invested Aragonès, voted against the budgets and has opposed more decrees than the PP
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Ciutadans exceeds the PP in votes against with five, the same as the CUP. The PP has given four ‘noes’ and six ‘yeses’ to the decrees of the Government, while Cs has voted in favor of five. The two formations have abstained six times. The voting differences between the two are not very notable —when one votes for or against, the other abstains and vice versa—, except in the decree of euthanasia, which the oranges supported against the no of the popular ones, and that of the tourist rate, in which the opposite occurred .
The last text that received the endorsement of the Parliament was that of vicarious violence, the one exercised by abusers against the children of their victims and that modifies the Catalan Civil Code on the custody of minors. The unanimity of the major parties in the Chamber was opposed by the abstention of Cs and PP, and the vote against by the extreme right.