The opposition parties in Catalonia coincide in criticizing the “little dialogue” attitude of the Government of Pere Aragonès. The criticism is mainly related to issues such as the management of the drought that the country is suffering, but it also extends to issues such as the restructuring of the Mossos d’Esquadra. For this reason, at the gates of a summit with all the parties in Palau to explore a political consensus around the emergency due to the lack of water, the opposition demands that the president change his attitude, a “blow of the steering wheel” to “reorient ” Catalan politics.
The steps that the Catalan Executive has taken so far have provoked widespread criticism. The Government approved a month ago a decree with water restrictions that affect 224 municipalities (6 million inhabitants), which includes a penalty regime for municipalities that fail to comply with them. He did it before calling the party summit to be held this Friday and the opposition, which was critical of the form and substance of the initiative, took advantage of the Government’s parliamentary minority to process it in Parliament as a bill, in order to modify it.
PSC, Junts and even the commons regret that Aragonès acts without taking into account the correlation of forces. “He seems not to be aware of the support he has,” they lament in the PSC, whose leader, Salvador Illa, yesterday demanded that the president “rectify the course” he is taking, especially in view of the fact that his projects -the agreement of Clarity, the trip through Latin America or the complaint about espionage – are not “getting the echo they expected,” they warn the PSC.
The socialist said he was willing to attend the summit with a “willingness to collaborate” and “good predisposition”, but he disgraced the Government to make the municipalities “pay the price” through the sanctioning regime of the decree. “We must go from a control policy to a collaboration policy; We are going wrong on that path, ”he bet.
In Junts they agree on criticism. Added to the “slow, erratic and inaccurate” management of the drought crisis is the fact that “we have a damaged, discredited government, which can only hold on by the will to cling to power, but which has neither a project nor a majority to continue governing”. And before the appointment on Friday they demand “concrete measures” and “agile and realistic” aid for the municipalities.
ERC defends the work of the Government. Marta Vilalta, spokesperson for the Republicans, yesterday appreciated the initiatives carried out to date to alleviate the water shortage, saw Friday’s summit as an opportunity to forge great consensus, but asked the opposition to stop “electoralism” in water management. In fact, in Esquerra they affirm that “the noise” caused by the approval of the decree hides nothing more than a “partisan will” to undermine the Catalan Executive, “because in reality everyone agrees” with the measures proposed by the Government, they affirm sources. Vilalta pointed out in this sense: “We would not understand that there are those who play with the lack of water. Not everything is valid at the gates of the municipal elections”.
