ERC has announced that it could be completed “early next week”. Turull, leader of JxCat, has asked the president of the Generalitat to call an election or submit to a trust issue.
The Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, explained this Saturday that the Catalan President, Pere Aragonès, and his team have already “very advanced” the structure of the new government, without ministers from JxCat and with the incorporation of “experts” in their domain”.
In statements from the Palau de la Generalitat, where Aragonès and his circle of collaborators are working on the draft of the new government after JxCat’s decision to give it up, Vilagrà explained that “all names” that join the executive will joints, have not yet been closed, although the process is “well advanced” and should be completed by “beginning of this week”.
Its aim is to “build a strong, cohesive, loyal government that addresses economic and social challenges” “maximum stability and security” in Catalonia and that will give priority to seeking support among the pro-independence groups and the ordinary, although it will also listen to the economic and social actors, city authorities, provincial councils and municipal entities.
Vilagrà has pointed out that Aragonès and his team do not intend to have ministers from En Comú Podem, but rather “people who are experts in their field”, some with “experience in the public sphere”.
Previously, in RAC1, on the possibility of including profiles associated with ERC, such as Natàlia Mas or Albert Castellanos for the Ministry of Economy and Finance or Marc Ramentol for Health, he acknowledged that “these are names of the highest level that Esquerra has”.
Budgets
On the other hand, regarding the next budgets of the Generalitat, which has been prepared so far by the Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró, Vilagrà has noted that the new government will “negotiate” with the parliamentary groups to try to to approve .
But it has not closed the door to a budget extension if negotiations fail, as “the current budgets are good, they are expansive” and “enable the development of the social shield”, as Aragonès announced in parliament.
In fact, the leader of the ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has ruled out agreeing the Generalitat’s 2023 budgets with the PSC and has opened the door for renew accounts from 2022 until next year if Junts does not support them.
Junqueras has maintained that the ERC’s red line to reaching agreements is the parties that are not committed to the “end of repression” and to the defense of a referendum, and he believes that the socialists are not.
Turull: question of trust or new elections
For his part, the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, this Saturday indicated to the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, two ways to get out of the current situation in Catalonia: either he submits to a matter of trust to control whether he has sufficient support for parliamentarians or to call early elections.
According to Turull, “Aragonès needs to think”, because in a year and a half term, he “has lost the confidence” of the 41 deputies of JxCat and the CUP, who contributed to his inauguration and who now believe that the president “has failed to fulfill of the agreements signed by you.
Turull is in favor of rebuilding the independence unit and “redrawing a shared roadmap” because “it is time to take action again”: “There will be no JxCat,” he declared.
In this sense, the former secretary general of JxCat Jordi Sànchez stated this Saturday that: “The ‘process’ is definitively closed”.
Reaching the Commons
The leader of En Comú Podem (ECP), Jéssica Albiach, has offered the President of the Generalitat an “outstretched hand” for the formation of “a progressive majority” that supports the government from now on, although she has warned that her formation will not give you “a blank check”.
Jéssica Albiach has asked Aragonès to be “haughty” and to recognize, first of all, the situation of “extreme weakness” in which he finds himself at the moment, bearing in mind that “he is left alone” and that “only has the support of 33 of the 135 deputies of Parliament”.
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Source: EITB
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