The political course began this Tuesday with a thirst for revenge against the government of Pedro Sánchez after the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia. His war has already begun in the Congress of Deputies, separating from the central executive and question the approval of the general state budgets for 2025As for whether they will vote “no” to everything, sources from the Catalan party told LaSexta that it will depend on whether or not “Catalonia” benefits.
Although the government, as stated on Tuesday by the minister’s spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría, believes that they can be approved because they are “as soon as possible“, those of Carles Puigdemont began the political journey by asking for explanations and with a warning: “We are not partners.”
This was clearly indicated this Tuesday by the deputy of the Junts in Congress, Marta Madrenas i Mir.“We are not partners of this government. Only Catalonia and the Catalans question us. I don’t know what it is this vocation which is theirs to always unite us when they know that this is not the case“, he assured, after his unsuccessful attempt to have President Pedro Sánchez and four of his ministers appear before the Lower House. There, the support of the ERC, although fragile, and of the PNV was decisive.
Sources from the Catalan party, as to whether the general trend would be to vote “no” to everything, told LaSexta that “piece by piece”. “We will only take into account if what Whether the vote benefits Catalonia or not“, they added, assuring that “Anything that is coffee for everyone, they will vote against”as well as “everything that involves invasion of powers“. Likewise, they emphasize, to “anything that increases grievances in Catalonia.” “As we have done so far. “It’s easy,” they decided.
Junts and Podemos, the Government’s investiture partners, have distanced themselves from the rest of the Executive’s parliamentary allies in the Permanent Deputation of Congress, where ten requests for appearance were debated this Tuesday. requested by the PP. None of the apparitions took place and, therefore, the President of the Government will not need to go to the Lower House to report on Spain’s position in Venezuela or on the migration crisis.
The Minister of Finance will not be called either, María Jesús Montero, to talk about the unique financing in Cataloniaeven though Junts supported the PP in its request for explanations, after the first vice-president denied that the PSC had agreed with the ERC on a concert for Catalonia, as the Republicans claim.
Carles Puigdemont’s group also supported the appearance of the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, on which Podemos abstained, without having made any progress.
The Government is asking to be up to the task of approving the PGE
For her part, the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, assured this Tuesday that It is “time to prepare new budgets, which must respond to the needs of the Spanish people” and has trusted the parliamentary groups, including the Catalans, are “up to par”“what citizens expect.
This is how Rodriguez answered journalists’ questions at a press conference in Toledo about Junts’ position within the Permanent Commission of Congress.The government is doing its job and the political groups are represented “In Congress, they must answer to the citizens for their decisions,” said the minister, who indicated that she hopes that “everyone works in response to what the citizens expect” of them.
“The reality of parliamentary arithmetic is what the Spanish wanted just a year ago and what we will have to talk about will be the content of these votes, which each political group will decide,” he added. In this sense, he recalled that it is “time to prepare new budgets, which must meet the needs of the Spanish people, and what they expect is for the political groups to be at the level of our country, of the Spanish people. “And, in the case of the Catalan political groups, they are also living up to the expectations of the Catalans, who also expressed themselves very clearly in the last regional elections,” he said.
Furthermore, Rodriguez considered the presence of a socialist president in the Generalitat of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, as “good news”, and added: “The fact that we are talking about financing and not independence is excellent news for Spain“.
