The control session for the president of the Generalitat was held this Wednesday in Parliament on a delayed basis, just after the corresponding moment, since the session has been decaffeinated. All groups have saved their gunpowder for the subsequent appearance of the head of the Catalan Executive, Pere Aragonès, to inform the plenary session of the Chamber about the changes that he has made in the Government this week. The most widespread criticism is that these are appointments and adjustments for electoral purposes, thinking about the next campaign, although the desire in Palau is to exhaust the legislature and make it last another year.
The president has defended that he had made the changes thinking about this last year and some of the challenges that the Catalan administration faces, such as the transfer of Rodalies that they describe as comprehensive, the negotiation of a referendum or a singular financing system and better for Catalonia. But the opposition does not share that reading at all. “Not only are they not there because of work, the drought, education, renewables… disappointing. He is only thinking about the elections, another big mistake of his presidency,” the first secretary of the PSC and head of the opposition snapped. , Salvador Illa, who added that “when someone promotes his campaign director to vice-minister, it is that he is in electoral mode”, said in reference to the appointment of Sergi Sabrià, who is also head of the office of president of Aragonès and former deputy known to everyone.
“Will they think about their electoral interests or what Catalonia needs?” Illa questioned him, who believes that they are changes that have been carried out “thinking about what the candidate needs, not the president.” The leader of the Catalan socialists He also wanted to emphasize that Aragonès only has 33 of the 135 deputies in the Parliament. “We will work overtime and ensure that his government is not his electoral committee,” Illa concluded.
On behalf of the Junts per Catalunya group, its president, Albert Batet, has assured that he would not “make firewood from the fallen tree” because “today they have made it easy”, although he has been a little more incisive and has asked the Catalan president why they have not appointed a vice-minister to manage the drought, the poor results in education of the PISA report, the oppositions whose chaos has been attributed to the now vice-president Laura Vilagrà, the problem of health professionals, who demonstrate this Wednesday at doors of the institution, or of the pact of clarity, a last point that he took a while to mention since he theatricalized that he did not remember what it was or what it was called. “They could do many things, but they have chosen a vice-minister of strategy and communication,” said Batet, who expressed his appreciation to Sabrià while suggesting to Aragonès that he could change Government spokesperson without appointing a vice-minister. “The strategic project of the Government is to criticize Junts. Which is what Sabrià has done,” they reason in Junts.
Likewise, the leader of JxCat has asked the head of the Catalan Executive not to use the institutions “in a partisan manner or for party interests”, since, in his opinion, “the remodeling of the Government responds to party changes.” Batet, who has cited Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and the famous maxim of The Leopard, change everything so that nothing changes, has also targeted the PSC, a dynamic that will be seen more and more in this last year of the legislature. that the desire of Carles Puigdemont’s party is to be the alternative to the PSC.
Thus, he stressed that Illa is “co-responsible for the current situation.” “The PSC and you are the lifeguard and loyal partner of the Government, which has 33 deputies and Salvador Illa who acts as a lifeguard when you need it, be it for tripartites such as those seen in deputations, town councils such as Reus or as will see in Barcelona, ??with housing for tourist use or the budgets of the Generalitat,” he remarked. “You cannot occupy the government at any price. We are preparing, seeing how ERC and the PSC act, the only alternative for a better and freer country, which is Junts,” the post-convergent concluded.
From the ranks of the commons, Jéssica Albiach has coincided with her predecessors. “What they do is so obvious that we all say the same thing, each in their own way,” said the president of En Comú Podem, who believes that “nothing stands.” For Albiach, “the question is obvious.” Will you make each decision as a candidate or as president? For the good of the party or for the good of the country? “She questioned.” Are they changes that suit you or the country? “Are you setting up the campaign committee in the Government?” continued the deputy, who considers that “they are movements to strengthen the presidency and communication” and that we are facing “the umpteenth attempt by the Government to try to raise its head.”
For their part, PP and Vox, with Lorena Roldán and Ignacio Garriga, have agreed in pointing out that they thought that Aragonès would call elections when it emerged that he would appear after the meeting of the Executive Council, and they reproached the head of the Government for going ahead and planning to exhaust the legislature . On behalf of Ciudadanos, Carlos Carrizosa has assured that the changes are “cosmetic touch-ups that do not deceive.” “It is an image and appearance operation, even electoral,” he said. In turn, the CUP has reproached the Republicans for the direction of recent years and the model, in their opinion, similar to that of the socialists.
In the control session, which preceded Aragonès’ appearance, Formula 1, with the new grand prix to be held in Madrid, has passed ahead of the drought, and the questions have been more or less formal. Carrizosa, however, has requested that Fernando Alonso’s 33rd victory, which has eluded the Asturian driver despite his good work this past year, be at the Montmeló circuit.
For his part, Alejandro Fernández has charged against the Government… for the Junts proposal for the return of companies, with the possibility of including sanctions, an initiative already amended by its authors, JxCat, which has asked the president to convene a new summit on the drought with all parties.
