A query in which 462 people have voted After a weekend of meetings in which 509 people participated, it has decided that the CUP present a motion to all of the budgets of the Government of the Generalitat to which the antisystem gave their support through an investiture agreement. In the case of the CUP, it is not surprising that the mandate that the bases have transmitted to the management is more complex than a binary yes or no. Despite the decision to present the amendment in full, the Cupera militancy wants to continue negotiating the budgets until the last day. The vote, as explained by the deputy Eulàlia Reguant, is actually a wake-up call to the coalition government between ERC and Junts per Catalunya, which he accuses of presenting “continuist” assumptions, of perpetuating “socio-vergence”, of “normalizing the relationship with the PSOE” and of not working to “generate the conditions for self-determination.” In Reguant’s opinion, the Government is responsible even for the little participation in the consultation between the militancy on the budgets.
No one should be surprised by the attitude of the CUP, both the critical discourse and the dogmatism. Furthermore, this ambiguity of the no but yes is legitimate: since the famous draw at 1,515, The CUP has shown that it knows how to use its cards and squeeze the maximum possible room for maneuver from its deputies, essential for the existence of a majority independence bloc. If someone has known how to use the Pujolista ‘peix al cove’ tactic in recent years in Catalonia, claiming a president of the Generalitat and radicalizing the pro-independence bloc along the way, that has been the CUP. No surprise, then, in the decision of the 462 voters.
What is surprising at this point is that a government that has plenty of partners with whom to approve budgets is determined to leave the future of the country in the hands of an anti-system group on the extreme left. It has been too long since the independence movement has allowed the CUP to be a key player in governance in Catalonia. Without their influence, the radicalization competition that led to October 1, 2017, cannot be understood, and their deputies are key to perpetuating bloc politics based on the nationalist axis. In fact, the CUP is reluctant to support the budgets for reasons that apparently pertain to the accounts presented by the ‘Minister’ of Economy and Finance, Jaume Giró, but the main reasons are of another nature: the percentage of compliance with the investiture agreement with Pere Aragonès and, in general, everything related to the stake of the other Catalan institutions with the other State institutions. The “disaffection” covers with the Government, To use the words of Reguant, then, it goes beyond the accounts and, therefore, it is not easy to save with a purely budgetary negotiation.
The case, as we have already said in other editorials, is that these budgets are very important for Catalonia, since they must contribute to the recovery of the Catalan economy damaged by the pandemic and under the effects of the political uncertainty that Catalonia has suffered in recent years. With so much at stake, it is legitimate for the CUP to demand and for the Government to want to exhaust the possibilities in agreement with its investiture partners. But Maintaining the supposed unity of the independence bloc should not go ahead of the country’s needs. And less when the Government has alternatives to the anti-system.
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