The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, took advantage of a question from the Republican senator Mirella Cortès about the low budget execution in infrastructures in Catalonia to remind the Generalitat that its level of budget execution in infrastructures is 53% and explain that the difficulties of Budget execution not only affects the Government of Spain and has its origin in the bottlenecks and lack of supply caused by the pandemic.
“No one is calling into question that you are against the interests of the Catalans,” Sánchez continued during the Senate control session held on Tuesday and which marked the debut of the PP president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in this discussion.
Cortès has reproached the chief executive for a “ridiculous” budget execution (35%) and has branded the explanations given so far by the central government as “excuses”. “How are they going to be the best budgets in history if they are unable to meet them”, the senator snapped at the head of the Executive, to whom she has reminded that Catalonia “is always in the queue for investment while Madrid is always in the lead “.
Sánchez has promised to improve investment in the 2022 budgets and has advanced that in the first quarter of this year 61% more than the previous year has already been executed, while at the same time ensuring that the Ministry of Transport invests in Catalonia about 2,000 million, 61% more than in the last budgets of Mariano Rajoy.
“Not only do they break their word with those who agree, but they disrespect all Catalans, especially the users of Rodalies, an unworthy service,” insisted the Republican spokeswoman, who asked Sánchez “how they plan to end the legislature” if they do not comply “neither with their government partners nor parliamentary collaborators” since it is a government that “lies, fails to comply and spies”. And she has come to say that for Catalonia it does not matter if the right or the left governs because the breach is year after year.
“It seems inappropriate to me to say that it is the same whether the left or the right governs,” Sánchez replied and has used pardons for the leaders of the procés to vindicate his “reunion agenda.” “And if you don’t tell your colleagues from Esquerra who were previously in prison and today are out thanks to the clemency measures approved by the Government,” Sánchez stressed, concluding that “what the Government of Spain is doing is promoting an agenda of reunion, to overcome the trauma of 2017 despite the cries of the right and the extreme right”.
