The budget agreement between the Government and the PSC, pending for days of “a few fringes” after the transfer of the Republicans in terms of infrastructure, will not bring with it “a legislature pact” or broader alliances between both actors. This was stated yesterday by the spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, Patrícia Plaja. “There are antagonistic projects between this Government and the PSC”, explained the spokeswoman at the press conference after the meeting of the Consell Executiu, in which she limited the agreement between two political formations “to a budget agreement” that in all electoral contests They are called to compete. “Absolutely not,” Plaja stressed.
The foreseeable pact has fueled Junts per Catalunya to proclaim “the end of the 52% legislature”, alluding to the pro-independence majority that emerged from the polls in the last Parliament elections. But Plaja, who once again left a door open for the post-convergents to sit down to negotiate and end up supporting the draft accounts for this 2023, wanted to counter that slogan and assured that the agreement “does not end with the legislature.” “On the contrary”, he added, just after reiterating for the umpteenth time that the objectives of the Government at the national level continue to be self-determination and amnesty. A valid response to rule out that the pacts with the PSC go beyond numbers and accounting, and to reply to Junts, with whom the Executive -according to the spokesperson- has tied 54 measures valued at 2,600 million euros.
Thus, the agreement between the Government and the PSC is still not closed, although, in the words of the Catalan Executive, “there are no more pitfalls” and there is no margin for going back and undoing the path taken. “Except for an unexpected script twist.” “There are a few fringes” pending, Plaja assured yesterday, but those fringes are resisting the negotiating teams, who yesterday held meetings again at noon and in the afternoon without reaching the final destination: a budget pact.
With these members, the Government’s forecast is that there will be an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Council this week if the definitive pact is sealed, and that the final approval, once the parliamentary procedure is passed, will be in March. The estimated time frame for giving the final green light to the budgets in the full House is around two months.
The transfer of the Executive of Pere Aragonès in relation to the Ronda del Vallès, the section of the fourth ring road that must unite Sabadell and Terrassa, whose “personal and political cost” the president assured that he would assume himself, told this weekend in the Esquerra congress with an approval. But this free path of the Republican militancy to close the pact does not mean that the cadres are resigned. Gabriel Fernández, Republican candidate for mayor of Sabadell, in an interview with Diari de Sabadell, said yesterday that if he becomes mayor – the polls do not foresee this – he will “stop” the fourth belt. In addition, he considered that the approval by the ERC group of the motion of the Socialists on the B-40 last week, understood by all as an element that unblocked the negotiation, is only “a political gesture so that the PSC does not have no excuse” for not approving the budgets.
