The first secretary of the PSC and leader of the opposition in Parliament, Salvador Illa, has applauded that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has coordinated with Spanish diplomacy in the recent tour that the Catalan president has made to different Latin American countries .
“He has done well, he has coordinated with Spanish diplomacy” since the world sees Catalonia “as part of Spain”, Illa assured in an interview with Ser Catalunya, in which he described the attitude as “intelligent”. of the President of the Generalitat. “He was right,” insisted Illa, who also applauded the president’s trip and especially to Latin America.
“I think that President Aragonès should travel. I am in favour, I give him my support,” insisted the socialist leader after considering that recent Catalan presidents had closed themselves off too much. “And he has done well by going to Latin America”, continued Illa, who has pointed out that this part of the world has “interesting left-wing and progressive governments” and that “it has a special link with Spain and therefore with Catalonia”.
The first secretary of the PSC has also found some but to the tour that took Aragonès to Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. For Illa “the level or range” of the meetings has not been up to the level of what, in his opinion, could be expected from a president of the Generalitat. And he has also regretted the expectations raised on some meetings that in the end have not been able to be held. He was referring to the socialist leader previously announced interviews with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and with the vice president of Uruguay, Beatriz Argimón, which were cancelled.
Illa has also lamented the uneconomic nature of these meetings that she sees as too focused on cultural issues, for which reason she has called on the Government to reinforce that aspect. “We will learn, what a trip, I want you to travel”, he has concluded, despite everything.
In another order of things, Illa has harshly charged against the Minister of Social Rights, Carles Campuzano, for the promise to build a residence for the elderly in Santa Coloma de Gramenet -governed by the socialist Núria Parlón- if the ERC candidate Gabriel Rufián , obtains a good result in the next municipal elections. For the socialist leader, what Campuzano did a few days ago “is not right” and represents “a very important personal disappointment” with the minister. “It’s the last thing I expected from him,” the socialist leader reproached the ex-convergent. “He has every right to campaign but he cannot use the institutions to campaign,” Illa has settled.
The first secretary of the PSC has also reproached the Government for not having dialogued while being so weak regarding two controversial decrees such as the drought or the restructuring of the Mossos. In this sense, he does not see the coherence of first approving a decree on the drought and then calling a summit to talk about it. “It should be the other way around,” warned Illa, who has also warned that the Catalan Executive will have to explain “very well” that wiretapping by court order becomes dependent on a new cybersecurity police station.
Illa has also shown her surprise at the fact that the PP “skips” its own statutes and does not suspend its candidate for mayor of Badalona, ??Xavier García Albiol, for the moment, after the instruction court 4 of that city told him sent to trial for allegedly allowing the irregular installation of telephone masts at the Guàrdia Urbana station. Article 21.7 of the PP statutes provides for the automatic and “provisional” suspension of militancy “when a member is involved in criminal proceedings for which an order to open an oral trial has been issued” but only in the case of “a crime related to corruption”, which this regulation does not detail.
