The PSC will try to stop something in Parliament that it failed to negotiate with the ERC Government for this year’s budgets. The final agreement, reached thanks to the transfers of the Catalan Executive regarding large projects such as the B-40, the El Prat airport or the Hard Rock, was also possible because the Socialists gave in to some of their demands, such as stopping the implementation of the universal basic income that the Government had already planned to promote, the result of the investiture commitments that President Pere Aragonès signed with the CUP. Now, the PSC has presented an amendment to the budget accompanying law in which it proposes to completely eliminate this initiative.
In this way, the Parliament will have to vote on the socialist proposal that did not bear fruit in the budget negotiation, and the correlation of forces can cause the socialists to take the cat to water if they manage to count on the vote of Junts and the rest of the parties of the right.
The Government had planned to start the pilot test of a monetary allocation to which it plans to allocate 40 million euros, on which the Socialists have always been against because they consider that the current moment, of an inflation crisis, advises allocating that money precisely to mitigate the effects of price increases.
The Government’s reaction to the PSC amendment came hours later. It has been the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, who has indicated her conviction that the agreements signed, in this case with the PSC, will be fulfilled “in full” because it would be “very unreliable if any other option were carried out”. In this sense, the minister sees the socialist amendments as “another attempt to set a profile” and not a real will to approve them. “In politics we have to be serious,” she warned.
The budget accompanying law includes the creation of this “individual”, “universal” and “unconditional” monetary allocation, through two tranches. One, with an amount of 800 euros per month for adults who meet the requirements to receive it, and another of 300 euros for minors.
This amendment is one of 11 that the socialist parliamentary group has presented on the accompanying law individually. Among them are some related to the incineration tax, water rates, or modifications on the agricultural spaces of Catalonia. But within the framework of the budget agreement, the PSC has also registered, together with ERC and En Comú Podem, another 64 amendments that modify some of the aspects that the aforementioned law, in the field of health, education, the installation of renewable energies , the impulse to modernize irrigation, administrative processing or security.
Another of the amendments that the Socialists have registered separately, as have also been done by ERC, Junts and los comunes, is the one related to the beneficiary municipalities of the Nuclear Transition Fund. The four groups agree to modify said fund so that it finally includes the municipalities of Les Garrigues and El Segrià, which were initially left out.
With the consensus between the four groups, the changes will foreseeably go ahead a few months after the PSC and Junts agreed to a modification of the norm that governs the fund that left 19 municipalities out. With the modification, the beneficiaries of the Fund will be all the municipalities in the area of ??influence of the PENTA I zone and all the municipalities with less than 12,000 inhabitants in the PENTA II zone. 50% of the funds will go to those in the first zone and the remaining half to the beneficiaries of the second.
