The approval, in time and in form, of the budgets of the Generalitat for 2025 was established by President Salvador Illa as confirmation that Catalan politics, after the years of shocks of the trial‘, had entered a phase of normality. Well, it’s not going to be like that, at least not completely.
There will be no budgets on January 1, as Illa himself confirmed this morning, reaffirming the position expressed by the government itself, which already argued last week that the negotiations with ERC and the Communes They are not moving fast enough to start the year with approved accounts.
“I care more about having a good budget and having a budget than not having it on January 1,” he explained this morning on Catalunya Ràdio, assuming that the parliamentary processes of both parties with which he made investment prevent the conclusion of the agreement. It will be adopted “as soon as possible”. No accident is to be expected along the way: neither of the two candidates with the best chances of winning the ERC congress (November 30) calls into question the policy of collaboration with the PSC. The same thing happens with common property.
“It’s difficult, but the same thing would happen if I were in your situation. I understand that they have to carry out this process, and then we will continue to work and we will continue to see how it can be done,” he replied, when asked about the situation of Esquerra.
On the other hand, and coinciding with 100 days since his inauguration (August 8), Illa also spoke about other topics, including his interview with the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol – “a person who governed for 23 years cannot be put aside like that”, he said, “and the possibility of meeting the escapee Carles Puigdemont, which will take place “when the time is right”.
For the President of the Generalitat, and as an assessment after 100 days in government, there is “progress” political normalizationinstitutional and social in Catalonia.
