The candidate for the Catalan elections on May 12, Salvador Illa, attended the Workers’ Day demonstration held this Wednesday in the streets of the center of Barcelona, ??from where he took the opportunity to underline one of his electoral promises, that of governing , if he is the next president, prioritizing agreements with social agents, with the aim of improving the efficiency of public services in Catalonia.
The focus of his electoral campaign is precisely the improvement of public services such as education, health, security, dependency, infrastructure, energy, etc. But Illa is determined to undertake several measures in this regard, including a profound reform of the public administration and putting on the table a reform of Catalonia’s financing, which he wants to have the support of social agents.
“If I am president there will be co-governance with social agents, not only to improve the financing of Catalonia, but also to improve the effectiveness of public services. The unions, the workers, are key to opening a new stage, to starting the third great transformation of Catalonia,” said the PSC candidate.
In its electoral program, the PSC promotes an “alliance” with social and economic agents to address the transformations that the labor market and the economy will experience in the coming years, but it also promotes collaboration with these social agents to promote a public service law, to study the application of a reference minimum wage in Catalonia, in socialist measures regarding housing, self-employment, and childhood, adolescence and families.
The socialist candidate will receive the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez tomorrow in Sant Boi de Llobregat, where both will participate in a campaign rally. It will be the first major act with the president’s militancy after announcing that he will continue in office after a five-day reflection period. Illa has expressed his excitement and happiness at having the head of the Executive back in the Catalan campaign, and has assessed that “a collective reflection is opening up on the nature of political activity and its limits” as a consequence of what happened in around Sánchez. Illa has assumed that this reflection “will last a long time” and that “it should lead us to reduce support for those formations that practice this policy of power struggle for power without any type of respect.”
The socialist leader has also referred to the business news of the day, the possible merger between BBVA and Banco Sabadell. Illa has expressed his respect for the decisions made by the aforementioned financial entities, as corresponds to the prevailing “freedom of business framework”, but he wanted to put first “respect for the jobs” that could be affected by the merger and to the “public service that can be provided.” In any case, the candidate has expressed his preference for “maintaining decision-making powers in Catalonia.”
