While the future of the Catalan legislature is still pending the approval of the Generalitat’s budgets for this year, about which the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, admits “intense conversations” with the Government, the political agenda today will focus on the serious drought that Catalonia is experiencing. The Parliament is holding a monographic plenary session on climate change and urgent and extraordinary measures to address water scarcity, in which the opposition will once again criticize the management of Pere Aragonès’ Executive.

The seriousness of the situation has led the Government to declare an emergency in a large part of the autonomous community and to approve restrictions that affect a total of 202 municipalities and 5.9 million people, but the opposition has been complaining for more than a year the lack of planning and the deficiencies in the execution of the infrastructure that would allow us to have more water, and they will denounce it again in this debate.

Illa elaborated on this yesterday, during a visit to the Besòs River water treatment station, reminding the Government that it still has to comply with a good part of the decisions included in the law on extraordinary and urgent measures to confront the situation of exceptional drought. in Catalonia, a law approved in the Parliament by Junts, PSC, ERC, Cs and PP in May 2023.

“Catalonia needs a Government that exercises its powers with solvency, a Government that makes things happen, a Government with solvency and rigor, that complies with the agreements reached,” claimed Illa. This requirement serves, in the case of the PSC, both for the drought and for the budgets.

The drought law included specific investments such as the expansion of the Tordera desalination plant in Blanes (Girona) and the Besòs water treatment plant (Barcelona), works to improve the connection of supply networks and sanctions on excess consumption, among other measures. , but Illa questioned “why it is taking so long” for the Government to comply with the agreement and questioned the role of the Catalan Water Agency (ACA). “Let them get their act together,” urged the socialist.

But not all the opposition shares the PSC’s vision. In Comú Podem, the other budgetary partner of the Government, and the CUP, they insist on extending water restrictions to tourism, something that socialists and Junts reject so as not to add to the crisis an economic problem, of “degrowth.”

“We have to be prepared for the worst scenario,” Illa advised yesterday, who despite being very critical of Aragonès in this matter, once again “reached out” to “help.”