“The Hard Rock is the minimum condition to start negotiating budgets.” The president of the En Comú Podem group in the Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, insists on placing the recreational and tourist project planned between Salou and Vila-seca as a red line to provide the eight deputies they have in the Catalan Chamber. Despite the pronouncement of President Pere Aragonès, who this Wednesday ruled out burying the administrative processing of the project, Albiach has once again demanded that he definitively “discard” this “nonsense.”
The Hard Rock has become the cornerstone of the negotiation of the Generalitat’s budgets for this year. The PSC’s demand to the president that he comply with what was agreed on last year’s budgets, which indicated the need to approve the project’s new Urban Master Plan, was approved by Aragonès, which practically unravels the agreement. this year’s budget with the Socialists, but at the same time it strains the relationship with the Commons, the other potential partner of the Government to carry out the 2024 accounts. “The ball is in the Government’s court,” Albiach has warned.
Aragonès justified his refusal to paralyze the administrative procedures of the project by the existence of a parliamentary majority in favor of it, but Albiach has responded by pointing out that the Hard Rock “is nonsense for anyone who wants prosperity without there being precariousness, gambling addiction, insecurity … A model more typical of Ayuso, a convergent project that does not keep up with the times and collides with the drought situation.”
The commons are willing “until the last minute” to speak with the Government about this matter because “we are in favor of there being no budgets”, but Albiach has warned that in Palau “they cannot confuse our good will with a blank check.”
Given the deadlock in this year’s accounts due to this discussion, the leader of the Commons has shown her willingness to discuss this issue with the Government. The possibility that the processing of permits could suffer a new delay is something that the common people do not want to speculate about. “At the moment, the Government has not sent us any proposal to delay anything, therefore I will not speculate,” Albiach confirmed, but if it arrives, the commons are “open to evaluating and studying it.”
In fact, when the common people talk about the need to discard the Hard Rock, this means that the PDU does not see the light. “There is nothing more political than urban planning, therefore, it is a political decision, not urban planning,” Albiach stated.
Despite the fact that the Hard Rock issue monopolizes the budget discussion, the members of the community have wanted to place the housing issue as another of the central axes of budget negotiations with the Government. In Albiach’s appearance alongside the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau, the leader warned that “if the Government wants the agreement, it will have to make a qualitative leap in housing by contributing 1,000 million euros to these policies, along with a specific regulation for “seasonal rentals.”
Albiach has also claimed that this regulation should not be deferred, but rather should be designed “during budget negotiation.”
