The budget of the Generalitat for 2024, which is in danger of being derailed with the amendment to the totality registered by the commons, together with the Hard Rock macroproject, has been the main protagonist of the control session with the Government and President Pere Aragonès this Wednesday in Parliament. Most groups have questioned the head of the Catalan Executive about this matter, and he, in turn, is looking for budgetary partners. During the debate he asked almost all the groups to allow the project to move forward in the parliamentary process next week, when the full debate is scheduled.
After the reproaches of En Comú Podem and the CUP on behalf of the Hard Rock and the pact already sealed with the PSC to approve the numbers of the Generalitat, the president of the Junts parliamentary group, Albert Batet, in turn, has offered the president the support of his party if he assumes his “country model”, which he has defined as “territorial balance, less bureaucracy and fewer taxes”. He has not made reference to the inheritance tax at any time, but that tribute was flying over the chamber. With the bill already registered in the Chamber, it is difficult to change the items, but the accompanying law and fiscal measures can be modified via amendments to introduce the elimination of this tax and there is less bureaucracy, JxCat reasons.
Batet made that offer at the end of his speech, after insulting the Republicans who have supported the general budgets of the State despite the poor execution of the central Government and making reference to the “guirigay” of the tripartite, due to the fact that the Executive do not count on the commons to approve the accounts.
Aragonès, for his part, has picked up the gauntlet and has shown his willingness to sit down and negotiate. Furthermore, he detailed that on February 22 the Government already sent JxCat a document in which almost 70% of its proposals were accepted, although the post-convergents consider that this was a “partial response” and that, in any case, It is up to the Government to call them to a meeting, which would be the fourth between both parties. From Junts they argue that they will not make any more movements and that, in any case, it is up to the Executive to summon them. If there are no movements, the party executive will debate on Monday the possibility of presenting an amendment to the entirety also on Monday, the last day that can be registered.
In the Government they point out that “there are hours and days left” and that, unlike JxCat and En Comú Podem, they do not have red lines. In any case, the president has wanted to convince the commoners and the anti-capitalists that they have attacked Aragonès for the Hard Rock, and has thrown the bait at them to reverse the cuts and more investments, a tidbit that both groups at the moment reject outright. flat. He has also assured that this year’s budget is better than previous ones, but to no avail.
In his reply to the commons, Aragonès has indicated that it is not possible to reverse the Hard Rock procedure and has detailed that the Executive would face financial compensation to investors. “I don’t know how we have to do it [stop the project] and we would have to face a property claim,” he summarized.
In his question, the leader of the PSC and head of the opposition, Salvador Illa, in turn, has disgraced the common people that the Hard Rock project now causes them discomfort, when last year it was already included and was not an impediment to They will vote on the draft accounts. “We think more about the country than about the elections,” Illa highlighted.
