The organizational errors of the exams that more than 13,500 aspirants to get a fixed position as a civil servant in Catalonia experienced this weekend have generated the umpteenth clash between the Government and the opposition for efficiency in public management.
The PSC, Junts and the ERC Executive have been criticizing these deficiencies for months regarding the management of the public administration, in matters as diverse as the drought, infrastructures, transport, social services, the police, European funds or education, and the organization of these exams has served socialists and post-convergents to once again question the management capacity of Pere Aragonès’ team. “A Government that does not know how to organize oppositions is not the best suited to run a country”, attacked the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, yesterday.
The discomfort with what has happened is important and proof of this is that the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, at the May Day demonstration expressed his “maximum confidence in the Government and – he added – in the actions that I can take”.
The fact is that the unions, especially yesterday, were very vehement about this incident. The general secretary of the UGT, Camil Ros, demanded “solutions” for those affected. In his opinion, “it is time for solutions and not for resignations”. Ros and the general secretary of CC.OO., Javier Pacheco, criticized the Government’s choice to “privatize” the management of the tests. “Private management of services is not more efficient; he just wants to do business”.
For its part, the union of civil servants IAC-CATAC also denounced yesterday that there are still no solutions for those affected and demanded the resignation “of those who should have been the guarantors of the whole process”.
The Government’s apologies and explanations for what has passed these exams do not seem to have satisfied anyone for now. Rain on wet: public management has become the axis of the struggle between the Socialists and the Republican Left, who are contesting a good part of their aspirations for the presidency of the Generalitat in this month’s elections.
The incapacity to govern that Illa denounced yesterday was preceded by other ERC darts at the socialists due to the drought and the deficiencies that are still affecting the Rodalies service in Catalonia.
“Self-demanding”, is what Illa responds to every criticism of the ERC Government, which in recent days has denounced that “what depends on the PSC and the PSOE is a disaster in terms of management, as we see every day in Rodalies”. The reproach of the deputy general secretary of ERC, Marta Vilalta, is a model of those used by Junqueras these last days, marked, without a doubt, by the electoral date of 28-M
Junts has joined the fight to show who better manages these powers that he held when he was part of the Catalan Executive. To the criticism of the Government in matters of the Interior, foreign policy, economy or drought, the training adds the organization of these tests. Junts was the first party to request the appearance of the Councilor of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà .
