One of the banners that Junts per Catalunya wants to raise in this municipal electoral campaign that will start at dawn from Thursday to Friday is that of “good management”, and it also has a repertoire of criticism of the Government of the Generalitat for issues such as the drought or the chaos in the externalization of the oppositions for the civil servants of the Catalan administration, and even by the problems of Rodalies. “Incompetence is being institutionalized,” they point out in JxCat.
This Monday the formation has reiterated that the assumption of responsibilities and the solutions offered by the Executive of Pere Aragonès are “ridiculous and insufficient”. For this reason, the spokesman and vice-president of the formation, Josep Rius, has asked the president of the Generalitat “to reflect on the matter”. In any case, the party has not gone further and has not demanded the resignation of the councilor in charge of oppositions, the head of the Department of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà , nor has it clarified whether it plans to fail him in Parliament. “True political responsibilities are needed and not scapegoats,” the spokesman has limited himself to pointing out.
“Incompetence and institutional mess” are some of the expressions that the formation has used. The opposition process was outsourced for the first time, with the company Cegos, and it will have to be repeated next July.
The post-convergents have also charged against the Republicans for the problems in the Rodalies service and for its management. Rius recalled that Esquerra announced in the fall of 2021 that it had reached an agreement with the Government of Pedro Sánchez for the complete transfer of Rodalies, with the necessary financial resources, which has never arrived.
In Junts they point to PSC and the commons “as the main responsible parties while both are in the Government”, and they point to ERC “as a necessary collaborator, for propping up” the central coalition Executive. “They have voted on the last four budgets of the Spanish State without the transfer having been made effective,” he added.
Thus, JxCat has again demanded a front of all the pro-independence forces in Madrid to try to force the “integral transfer” of the Renfe commuter train service, although Rius has acknowledged that in this legislature they are already late. In addition, the formation has asked that all the institutions, socioeconomic agents, civil society and political parties row in the same direction, with a great agreement of the country, to demand the transfer and has welcomed that Aragonès sees this possibility with good eyes .
In addition, the party of Jordi Turull and Laura Borràs has announced parliamentary initiatives to try to clarify whether the Department of Territory, headed by Councilor Juli Fernández, has tried to hide the data that Adif sends to the Generalitat about the incidences of the Regional Services, as and as he reveals today eldiario.es in an information in which he portrays the delays and problems of the service through a request for information to the transparency service. So, according to the information sent by Adif, in 2022 there were cumulative delays of more than 100 minutes which caused, in total, the cancellation of more than 2,000 trains (1,976 from Rodalies and 183 from Media Distancia).
