The changes in the Government of the Generalitat announced this Monday by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, do not convince the opposition. On behalf of Junts per Catalunya, the leader of the formation in Madrid, MÃriam Nogueras, has indicated that these are changes “in the key of the party” and not of the country and that the head of the Catalan Executive “has not been able to read” the results of the elections of May 28, in which Esquerra Republicana left 300,000 votes.
“We miss the fact that President Pere Aragonès and that ERC have not been able to read what is happening in our country for a long time, the results of the municipal elections and the results of the dialogue table, which has not borne any fruit”, he remarked Nogueras, who believes that “Aragonès had the opportunity to make a script change in the key of the country and in the national key, but he has done it in the key of the party”.
In the PSC they value that it is a new “Government crisis” in an executive that lives “permanently in crisis” and that continues “in a minority” and lengthens its agony, alluding to the 33 deputies out of 165 who support the Executive monocolor of the republicans. For their part, the commons attribute the “rectification” of Aragonès to the “bad result” of ERC in the municipal elections.
Aragonès has dispensed with councilors Teresa Jordà (Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda), who will go on the ERC lists of the general elections as Gabriel Rufián’s number two; Josep Gonzà lez-Cambray (Education) and Juli Fernà ndez (Territory), who has only been in charge of the Ministry for eight months. Instead, David Mascort, Anna Simó and Ester Capella join the Executive Board.
This remodeling of the Government has not satisfied the rest of the opposition parties either. The first group in the Chamber, the PSC, has considered it “a patch that lengthens the agony” of the Government. The parliamentary spokesperson, AlÃcia Romero, has indicated that the change “confirms the failure” of the Aragonès Executive, which, according to her, is “in permanent crisis” and lacks a country project.
Although the socialist leader, Salvador Illa, was previously informed by the president of the remodeling, his party considers that “it does not reinforce anything” because the Government “continues in a minority”, is “unstable” and “is not responding to the needs or to emergencies” in Catalonia. For this reason, Romero has warned that they will not give the new ministers “neither 100 days nor 100 seconds” of margin because the Executive has to unravel some agreements sealed in the budget pact this year that concern the ministries where there have been relays . This is the case of the Ronda Nord between Terrassa and Sabadell and the Hard Rock, which ends on June 30. The spokeswoman has warned that they will continue to pay attention to the fulfillment of the signed commitments, which in her opinion should not be altered again by the next appointment with the polls.
From Catalunya en Comú they understand the remodeling of the Government as “a deferred rectification of the policies of a government that is not working and that we have been demanding for weeks now.” The dismissal of Cambray was an initiative that the commons had a vote in the monographic plenary session this Tuesday, after repeated complaints from the educational community.
Mena has affirmed that he understands this rectification as “an acceptance of the bad results of ERC in the municipal elections that have nothing to do with the independence movement, but with a Government that has disappointed everyone”. In this sense, he wanted to warn that the problem of the Catalan Executive is not proper names, but policies. That is why he has called on the new Minister of Education to bring together the educational community and parliamentary groups to “put order to the disaster of Cambray’s policies.”
Mena has also demanded that the new Regional Minister of Territories as a first gesture “abandon the failed macro-projects that mortgage the future of Catalonia”, in reference to the Ronda Nord and the expansion of the El Prat airport.
