The parliamentary group of the PSC-Units will take to the next plenary session of Parliament, which will be held next week, a motion in which they demand that the Government withdraw the decree for the restructuring of the leadership of the Mossos d’Esquadra, approved on 21 March, and which received deep rejection among the unions and reluctance among police commanders.
The initiative of the Socialists seems to go ahead with the votes of JxCat, which was also very critical of the initiative of the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena. In fact, the entente between the two parties in police matters has already been seen on several occasions in the Parliament, to the point that it was the one that made possible the disapproval of Elena in the Catalan Chamber last November.
The motion of the PSC-Units, which will not have legal effects nor does it compromise the Government in any way, calls for the withdrawal of the decree so that the Catalan Executive approves it again with consensus, that is, counting on the contributions that police commanders can make as well like body unions. In the motion, to which La Vanguardia has had access, those of Salvador Illa demand that the Catalan Executive return to “reformulate the decree (…) collecting the contributions previously debated” in the corresponding forums, including the Police Council, and “establish a schedule for the implementation of the new decree.”
The PSC accuses the Government of having acted in this case, as in so many other cases, without having explored the agreements that would be necessary. Although the decree does not require parliamentary validation, for those of Illa, Minister Elena persists in the error that led to his disapproval, then as a consequence of the reorganization of the police leadership.
The motion highlights the Government’s way of acting, “without having informed and without having debated it in the Police Council, the body of equal representation of the Generalitat and the members of the Mossos corps, nor with the commands of the corps itself, nor with the parliamentary groups, ignoring the work of the study commission on the Police Modelâ€.
The spokesperson for the PSC, AlÃcia Romero, lamented this Thursday from Parliament that Minister Elena “does not seem to have been of much use to the notice” which led to her disapproval because she continues “without dialogue.”
The decree in question designs an organization chart that contemplates the creation of new police stations, divisions and units, and for which 109 commanders will be needed, as La Vanguardia advanced. This initiative was rejected by practically all of the opposition in Parliament, which denounced the Government’s abuse of power and its lack of dialogue. For their part, the unions planted Minister Elena at the meeting intended to explain the decree, and issued a statement in which they assured that the current Department of the Interior, led by Elena, is “the worst in history” for being the one that ” impose more and negotiate less”.
