That Artur Mas enters the campaign to support Junts? ERC attacks the drastic cuts that affected all public services and that the former president’s governments applied. It does not matter that Alejandro Fernández, PP candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, affirms today that “Junts per Catalunya has nothing to do with the old Convergència.” The Republicans assure that Junts and CDC are the same, that even Carles Puigdemont’s party feels “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 the thing is about pride, Esquerra takes pride in the contrast, that the Government “has put an end to” this lack of resources, and dares to predict that if the post-convergents or the PSC return to lead the Catalan Executive “the cuts will return” . Another sign that they are one for another, according to the Republicans.
“In the face of those –the PSC– who many years ago uncritically accepted the PSOE cuts, and those who –Junts– signed up for the PP cuts saying that we had stretched our arm further than our sleeve, we can say that we have put an end to cuts, something that is the starting point for the well-being of society,” Aragonès concluded in the afternoon, at the campaign event in Terrassa.
He warned the attendees once again. All social advances are in danger, she stressed, if ERC is left out of Palau. The president has gone 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 agree to expel ERC of the Generalitat of Catalonia”.
The Vice President of the Government, Laura Vilagrà, also present in Terrassa along with the republicans Tània Verge, Juli Fernàndez and Ona Martinez, has also warned of the danger that, in her opinion, would pose for the Catalan language if Illa were president. Together they have not been saved from reproaches in this matter. Vilagrà has accused Carles Puigdemont’s people of making up the Catalan’s bad situation for years.
ERC has taken advantage today of a management with which they have left cuts behind. On Tuesday, for example, the Government announced that it is recovering 78 million expected 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 against Junts, “who cut public services” or the PSC, those who between choosing the interests of the citizens or, as the ERC candidate has said, of Moncloa, “choose Moncloa” . A PSC of Salvador Illa that, in the opinion of the Republican, is the “least Catalanist in its history.” “Perhaps because the Catalanists of the PSC today are in ERC…” he added with sarcasm, alluding to figures such as the former number one of Esquerra in Barcelona Ernest Maragall or the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena.
