On Monday, February 5, the Government met with the PSC and the commons for the fourth follow-up meeting of the commitments made by the Executive of Pere Aragonès regarding the 2023 budgets. The figure is high: the Generalitat assures the ‘balance report that has completely executed 70% of what was agreed with the two formations in the budget framework. He even defends that they would reach 88% if they added measures already started or pending from other administrations.

With the PSC, the Government claims that it has maintained a slightly higher degree of compliance than with the commons. Those of 2023 are numbers that were signed in March. At the penultimate follow-up meeting with Salvador Illa, on October 9, the Catalan Cabinet reported that it had reached only 19%.

However, as of December 31, 70% of the 282 measures are deemed to have been achieved, according to the Government. 28% is ongoing and only 2% is pending to start or the Executive of Aragonès considers that it cannot be executed.

With commons, the figures are similar. Of the 132 agreed measures, 74% have been completed. In progress, 25%, and only 1% “cannot be carried out”.

The accounts for 2024 could not go ahead, according to the socialists and En Comú Podemos, if the Government did not demonstrate commitment to the current ones beforehand. The Government hopes that the numbers will be resolved soon. In fact, ERC has been saying for months that the Catalan budgets are linked to the general budgets. One will not be without the other, and vice versa. If so, and if a hypothetical new rejection of the Amnesty law in Congress does not interfere with the plans, Republicans believe that this year’s accounts should be approved in a few weeks.

However, the adaptation of the Prat airport, the improvement of the B-40 in the section of the Ronda del Vallès and the Hard Rock are not planned in this balance sheet. They conditioned the negotiation last year between the Government and the PSC, but these were issues that were left out of the budgets.

The Government hopes that these compliances will facilitate the negotiation of the 2024 budget, for which, according to the Republicans, only a few aspects remain to be closed. On the other hand, the commons claim that they have not yet begun to address it. This was pointed out by David Cid, spokesman for the En Comú Podem parliamentary group. He spoke of a “flagrant failure” in the 2023 accounts, particularly in “core aspects”, such as ensuring GP care in less than five days. It occurs in 68% of the centers, according to the Government.

From the PSC they note that they are still analyzing the data, but “a first study of the report allows us to conclude that there are relevant commitments that remain pending”.