That Artur Mas enters the campaign to support Junts? ERC strikes against the drastic cuts that affected all public services and that were implemented by the governments of the former president. It doesn’t matter that Alejandro Fernández, candidate of the PP for the presidency of the Generalitat, stated just yesterday that “Junts per Catalunya has nothing to do with the old Convergència”. The republicans assure that Junts and CDC are the same, that even the formation of Carles Puigdemont is “proud of the cuts”, in the words of Pere Aragonès. And they point out that the post-convergents will have no problem allying with the PSC to evict them from the Generalitat.
If it is a matter of pride, Esquerra boasts of the contrast, that the Government has “put an end” to the lack of resources, and dares to predict that if the post-convergents or the PSC return to lead the Catalan executive, “they will return the cuts”. Another shows more that they are for each other, according to the Republicans.
“In front of those who – the PSC – accepted the PSOE’s cuts many years ago uncritically, and those who signed up – together – to the PP’s cuts saying that we had stretched our arm more than our sleeve, we can say that we have put an end to the cuts, something that is the starting point for the well-being of society”, said Aragonès in the afternoon, at the campaign event in Terrassa.
He put the attendees on notice once more. All social progress is at risk, he stressed, if ERC is left out of Palau. The president went so far as to assure that the PSC and JxCat have conspired to govern together: “In the speeches, the PSC and Junts fight all day, but they agree on the most conservative policies and will try to “agreement to expel ERC from the Generalitat de Catalunya”.
The vice-president of the Government, Laura Vilagrà, also present in Terrassa with the republicans Tània Verge, Juli Fernàndez and Ona Martínez, warned of the danger that, in her opinion, it would pose for the Catalan language if Illa were president. Together he was not saved from criticism in this matter. Vilagrà accused those of Puigdemont of making up for years the poor situation of the Catalan language.
ERC was proud of a management with which they have left cuts behind. On Tuesday, for example, the Government announced that it is recovering 78 million planned in January to improve teachers’ salaries and schedules. In this way, the Department of Education has put an end to all cuts in labor rights for all teaching staff.
Aragonès wants to raise this flag of recovery before Junts, “who cut public services”, or the PSC, those who choose between choosing the interests of the public or, as the ERC candidate, de la Moncloa, has said, “choose the Moncloa”. A Salvador Illa PSC which, in the republican’s opinion, is the “least Catalanist in its history”. “Perhaps because the Catalanists of the PSC are today in ERC…”, he added mockingly, alluding to figures such as the former number one of Esquerra in Barcelona, ??Ernest Maragall, or the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena.
