In the control session with President Pere Aragonès yesterday in the Parliament, Junts extended its hand to the head of the Catalan Executive to negotiate the budgets of the Generalitat in the face of the frontal rejection that the commons are currently exhibiting. The president picked up the gauntlet and the two parties met this Thursday for the fourth time, but nothing has moved.
JxCat’s main demand is that the inheritance tax be eliminated in some cases, that it be reduced to 100% or 99%. The Aragonès Executive rejects it, since the impact of this measure on the Catalan public coffers would be 358 million euros. The reduction proposed by the post-convergent formation of the Catalan section of personal income tax, of another 0.5% additional to that already planned, is 138 million euros.
“The meeting has ended without progress. The Government does not move and, therefore, we cannot move,” say sources from the Junts group, who reiterate that if they want their support “they have to accept the most important request they make, the inheritance bonus”.
The Government, for its part, highlights that even though it rejects the fiscal measures that JxCat intends – which would mean giving up the income of a total of 1,200 million euros into the public coffers – it is accepting 70% of the measures proposed by the post-convergents. “It is unfeasible,” they argue from the Catalan Executive.
Likewise, from JxCat they believe that “it seems that the Government prefers there to be no budgets rather than agreeing on them with Junts” and they denounce that the Executive’s predisposition has not been “reciprocal” at any time.
Given the possible pressure from ERC on Sumar so that the commons end up giving up and give their support to the Generalitat’s draft accounts for this year, Junts “regret the desperation of the Government and that it drags itself into sad branchism.” “The change of cards that has already been agreed with the PSC for the State budgets is now being attempted with the commons,” they say.
Aragonès’ Cabinet recognized on Tuesday for the first time that the Generalitat’s accounts for 2024 are in danger, despite the pact with the PSC and showing optimism until then.
