The Government arrives at the first debate on the 2024 budgets in Parliament without the majority necessary to approve them. Esquerra considers vital accounts that represent some 2,440 million more than the current ones and in order for them to move forward, they have decided to play with two cards: with the first, the Republicans want to explore conversations about the Hard Rock as long as they do not involve stopping its processing and its plan. urban development (PDU); The second is played in Madrid, with the vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, on the other side of the table, to convince the common people.
“We can find ways, but they are not the PDU,” said the vice-minister, Sergi Sabrià, this morning in an interview on TV3. Sabrià has made it clear, however, that the recreational project proposed in Vila-seca and Salou has no brakes. However, he has not specified what formula the Government is studying. “We will do what can be done,” Vice President Laura Vilagrà said in parallel when asked about this complex.
The Catalan Executive and those of Jéssica Albiach met this morning without progress. The commons insist that they are not going to facilitate the Generalitat’s 2024 budgets if the PDU does not withdraw. But the Government warns that doing so would expose it to million-dollar financial compensation for property liability. So the Cabinet of Pere Aragonès tries to offer an intermediate solution that can convince the common people.
On the other hand, the option to contact Díaz is present. ERC has already contacted the leader of Sumar to try to convince En Comú Podem. So far without success. But that ERC rejects the general budgets of the State and they decline as a consequence of the commons’ no to the Catalan accounts is a possibility that the Republicans do not rule out.
In the press conference this afternoon, the deputy general secretary and spokesperson for Esquerra, Marta Vilalta, has avoided specifying on three occasions whether her party has used the wild card of the call to Díaz. “We always have conversations with everyone” is the formula she has used in response.
“Everyone is responsible for their actions,” Vilalta stressed, while stating that negotiations with the community are still open to try to reach “a meeting point.” “At this moment we appeal to the groups’ responsibility. They have to choose whether they prefer to wear down the Government or want to help the country; whether they want to maintain the CiU cuts or support good budgets,” the spokesperson concluded.
