The main opposition parties -PSC, En Comú Podem and the CUP- have ended up celebrating the announcement of the electoral call by President Pere Aragonès this Wednesday. For the leader of the opposition and the PSC, Salvador Illa, “the sooner the Catalans vote the better,” he said, while the leader of the commons, Jéssica Albiach, has pointed out that it is “the most coherent decision he has made.” the Government” of ERC throughout the legislature.
In an appearance immediately after the president’s announcement, Illa went into electoral mode to demand “a new Government with a strong president to turn the page.” The socialist leader called for “a president, not a candidate, to turn the page, to turn the page.” advance, prosper”, instead of a president who generates “insecurity, inconsistency, fluctuations, imbalances or misgovernment.”
For Illa Catalunya “it needs stability, water, an education that works, a healthcare that works, housing, safety on the streets, renewable energy and up-to-date infrastructure”, and has once again rejected “inventions” and “experiments”.
Before the appointment with the polls, the leader has assured that both he and his party are “prepared” for the contest, in which Catalonia will have to decide between “turning the page or returning to the past, and between meeting again or dreaming of doing no again.” I know well what.”
The electoral call, after the Parliament has overturned the Government’s budgets at the first opportunity, comes two days before the 15th ordinary congress of the PSC is held, where the party will once again elevate Illa as first secretary and will elect to the new executive. The choice of the date for this congress does not seem like a coincidence, but in any case it allows the PSC to get ready for an electoral contest in which all the polls once again place it as the winner, although to govern Illa would have to make an agreement.
For his part, Albiach has reproached the president for his attitude towards the trigger for the electoral call, the budgets overturned in Parliament. “He had the responsibility” but he “has acted as if he had an absolute majority.” In any case, he applauded that with this call the ERC Government ends a period in which it has lacked “leadership” and “country project”, and that “it has arrived late to the drought” and leaves “the greatest educational crisis that we have never had.”
On the other hand, this should have been the legislature of transformations, Albiach recalled, but “what we have found has been continuity, lack of alternative and wrong priorities.” In short, “a procedural legislature.”
Albiach has demanded that the president “not make decisions that make Hard Rock irreversible”, the reason why they did not support the Catalan accounts, and has said that he will face the appointment at the polls “with very clear priorities”, and based on housing, education, health and just ecological transition. “These elections will be a debate between the old and the new,” he concluded.
From the CUP, spokesperson Xavier Pellicer has spoken of “failure” and “irresponsibility” of President Aragonès after what happened, and has regretted that the head of the Government argued the electoral call due to the irresponsibility of others and did not engage in self-criticism.
