After a debate weakened by the focus on the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóothe Parliament is preparing to set the priorities for the final stretch of the legislature. This Friday the groups’ proposals will be put to a vote, which on paper should be assumed by the Government of Pere Aragones. The amnestyas well as the linking of the re-election of Pedro Sanchez to the commitment to move towards a referendum that ERC and Junts have agreed, is currently in the eye of the hurricane, but the minority of the Republican mandate is also in the center of the target, as well as other trips in economic and social matter that the opposition has planned for the ‘president’. Below, the hot folders that will put the cherry on top of the kick-off session of the political course in Catalonia.
ERC, Junts and the CUP – despite their initial differences – put to a vote a joint text to demand the approval of a amnesty law for all those “retaliated for political reasons” within the framework of the ‘procés’ cause. The Commons also present a text in favor of this law, understanding it as the final point of dejudicialization, while Cs and the PP ask to reject it completely. However, this will not be the most relevant text of this Friday’s vote, but rather the one presented by Republicans and post-convergents to condition Sánchez’s investiture on the Government “committing to work to make the conditions for the celebration effective.” of a referendum“, although they do not set deadlines. The PSCwhich will reject all these proposals, maintains its commitment to “dialogue” and “reunion” within the Constitution.
Both the PSC and Junts bring to the vote the “loss of confidence” of the Parliament in the ‘president’ Pere Aragonès, while In Comú Podem points to your “lack of leadership”. The three parties will vote on each other’s proposals to highlight the loneliness with which ERC has governed since the Government broke up a year ago, despite the fact that none of them has written the petition for elections or of a motion of censure. This is a bad drink that Republicans take for granted, convinced that, beyond the staging, they will be able to finish the legislature. Both the Socialists and the Comuns, aware of the essential support of the independentists for Sánchez’s investiture, have offered to collaborate again in the negotiation of the 2024 budgets.
Junts also puts to the vote another of its conditions for an eventual agreement with the PSOE: the official status of Catalan in the EU, which he considers “essential” to be approved before October 24. ERC also talks about language in its proposals, asking to close the National Language Pact before the end of the year, and putting to a vote the Catalan courses for healthcare workers announced by the ‘president’. A linguistic training that PSC and Comuns also include. On the contrary, The PP insists that Spanish be used in schools and Cs asks to apply the 25% sentence. Quite the opposite of the CUP which, for completely opposite reasons, asks to repeal the law approved by PSC, ERC, Junts and the Comuns to respond to this ruling.
Autonomous financing
The issue of financing will also be on the table. Both ERC and Junts emphasize reverse the fiscal deficit which the Generalitat estimates at 22,000 million euros, although only Republicans bring it to a vote. On the other hand, the PSC, which questions this figure, calls on the Government not to leave the negotiation chair empty. new financing model, a melon that Sánchez wants to face in this legislature if he manages to continue in Moncloa. The Comuns also make a call in this sense to combat the “underfunding” of Catalonia, in addition to demanding that Aragonès present the 2024 budgets in time and form so that they come into force on January 1, a request that Ciutadans also makes. The Republicans reaffirm themselves in a “bilateral” negotiation to achieve a “unique” financing.
Transfer of Rodalies and infrastructures
Another of the central axes of the vote will be the infrastructure section, with public transportation and macroprojects in the spotlight. The comprehensive transfer of Rodalies ERC, Junts and the Comuns ask for it; while the PSC talks about signing the Renfe program contract for the next 10 years before the end of 2023. Cs and PP want the works on L9 to be finished and the Comuns ask for an improvement of the intercity bus network and that the trains reach poorly communicated areas such as the Costa Brava.
The Barcelona-El Prat Airport is the other point of attention. The PSC demands to establish, before the end of 2023, the State-Generalitat technical commission that must seek consensus formulas to expand it, as agreed with the budgets. PP and Cs also ask to expand the aerodrome, while the CUP wants the Chamber to strongly oppose a “growth in flights and travelers”, a position similar to that of the Commons. The ‘cupaires’ also seek that the Chamber reject large projects such as the hard rock or the Fourth Beltwhile PSC and Junts want support for the Ryder Cup.
The fight against drought is once again the protagonist of the opposition’s claims. Both the PSC and Junts, the CUP and the Comuns call on the Government to accelerate investment in regeneration and desalination infrastructure and water and the post-convergents add demanding that the Government fully delegate water powers. Most groups also criticize the executive’s slowness in the deployment of renewable energies. Although ERC reaffirms its commitment to promoting the public energythe CUP once again requests that work as a marketer.
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Taxes will once again bring together strange traveling companions. Junts and the PP put to vote a income tax reduction in the lowest sections, as well as a proposal to rebate the 99% of the inheritance tax and donations in first degree relatives. Cs does not go into specifics, but asks for a detailed analysis of the taxes that Catalans pay in relation to other communities, with the aim of eliminating differences. On the other hand, the left is committed to creating new taxes. ERC takes to vote deploying a tax on large vessels, the Comuns ask to “redefine and increase the tourist tax“and the CUP proposes a new tax on second homes.
Shorten doctor’s visit time primary care will also be a majority claim. The PSC and Junts maintain that it is in a maximum of two days and the text of the Commons sets a period of five. ERC defends, like the PSC, the approval of a new National Health Pactwhile Ciutadans and the PP once again demand that waiting lists in healthcare be put to an end and the CUP advocates for public pharmaceutical and the prohibition of private activity by mutual companies in health centers. More resources to address the problems of mental health and increase the number of psychologists It is also a transversal request. In the field of education, while Aragonès has already committed to extending the school voucher to ESO students, PSC, Comuns and Junts ask for its reformulation.