The complaint is unanimous. The Government does not provide the information that has been required to deepen the negotiation for the next budgets. This has been revealed by the PSC, Junts and En Comú Podem, the three formations with which the Government holds meetings to explore a budget agreement. The “Caribbean rhythm” with which the Socialists denounced the future of the talks more than a week ago persists, according to criticism, in this week’s round of contacts.
This “passivity” on the part of the Executive of Pere Aragonès has been condemned by the commons and, again, by the opposition leader in Catalonia, Salvador Illa, after the meeting between the socialist delegation and the representatives of the Government this Thursday. Exasperated by the “desperate passivity of the Government” and its “sit-down attitude”, Illa has used sarcasm in his complaint: “I will tell you in Greek, Latin or Aramaic, Mr. Aragonès: I want to approve budgets with you!”.
In the Government, on the other hand, they deny the greatest. The Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, has assured this Friday that the negotiation of the accounts is developing correctly and “within the expected timings”, so that the forecast is to bring the budgets to Parliament before the end of the year. Vilagrà has said that she does not understand “the approach of questioning the pace” of the talks and she has attributed the complaints of the Socialists to the “negotiating strategy”. In fact, the councilor has indicated that in the meeting on Thursday they answered the questions posed by the PSC delegation and that it took place “cordially, correctly and without complaints.”
Vilagrà’s reply was answered by the socialist spokesperson, Alícia Romero, who sent him a letter in which he reiterated the request made in private to have the necessary technical documentation, detailed data on the Government’s budget project such as its breakdown by departments, by chapters, by programs, trend growth and liquidation forecast.
This same demand is the one that Junts has made in the meeting that they have held this Friday with the Government, to which they add the content of the law on accompanying measures and “the data on the budget that could be made if the Catalans had all the resources we generate. For its part, the Government confirms that in the meetings with post-convergents and socialists they were shown “the large numbers of the budget”, and reiterate their “priority” to approve them “with Junts y comunes”.
