Junts, after forcing the withdrawal from the deficit path: “We will not provide support in exchange for nothing”

Every defeat of the Government, direct or indirect, is celebrated without concealment by the Juntas, aware that with its seven votes it exercises an unprecedented influence on the central Executive. The announcements of the party of the fugitive Carles Puigdemont, the latest with his surprising vote against the law to regulate seasonal rentals, have led the Council of Ministers to request the withdrawal of the debate on the path to stability, which was going to take place and vote this Thursday. “From Juntas, we have not given and we will not give any support in exchange for anything. “It seems that after a year we are beginning to understand,” said the neo-convergent spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, in statements in the courtyard of the Lower House, who, as always, spoke only in Catalan. that the majority of journalists in Congress are Spanish-speaking, he did not hide his party’s satisfaction after forcing the government to withdraw the vote on the path to deficit. Junts had already overthrown him in July with PP and Vox, but the Executive decided to approve the same plan, convinced that it would manage to convince the pro-independence party to change its mind. This was not the case and even Friday’s meeting in Geneva (Switzerland) between the number three of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, and a delegation led by Puigdemont did not move the positions. Nogueras had warned for weeks that the distribution of positions. the additional deficit authorized by the European Commission, 40 billion euros of which around 35,000 remain for the State and 5,000 for the autonomous communities, seems totally insufficient. “It is not the best proposal for Catalonia,” he said again on Tuesday in the courtyard of Congress. “If the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez want different things, they have to do different things. We have repeated this from day one,” he insisted, stressing that “it makes no sense” to bring back exactly the same proposal that the government presented to the Lower House in July. “What they have to do is what they did not do: negotiate and present a proposal that really improves the situation of Catalonia, the Catalans, the Generalitat of Catalonia and the city councils of Catalonia. “We are not settling for crumbs,” said the pro-independence leader, in whom Puigdemont has great confidence. The MP referred to a proposal approved by the Catalan Parliament in 2014, in which it was proposed to divide the money allocated to the deficit into thirds between the State, the autonomous communities and the municipalities. There, Nogueras defended, the government has a “good basis” to begin negotiations.

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