‘Fact-check’: 76% or 30%? Government and CUP clash on the degree of compliance with the investiture pact

The draft budgets for 2022 include the P2 free (90 million euros) and the Government offers the progressive reduction of ratios in the nursery and primary cycles to go from 25 to 20 students per classroom and start the 2022-2023 academic year with 1,545 new professionals (an increase of 56.8 million euros), both commitments within the agreement. Refering to vocational training It remains in a scarce hiring, of 400 new teachers and 70 new groups, but progress is made in the integration of concerted schools into the public network with at least four centers during 2022, as requested by the CUP.

ERC and CUP agreed to move towards a ownership and public management system which included the network of ancillary services. As for 061, “a roadmap for internalization” is ensured, something that is also open to study for 112, with “a systematic evaluation of the management model that leads to decision-making” on whether it should be fully managed publicly. Refering to primary care, the budget project remains at 17% and not the agreed 25%, but references for emotional well-being are incorporated in the centers and stabilizes the current squad to respond to covid-19. The reinforcement of teams is based on the creation of new specialties, but not on the strengthening of basic medical and nursing teams as claimed by the CUP.

In terms of housing, the accounts fall short with respect to the pact, which sets 749 million euros and not the 1,000 promised. In addition, the Government plans to acquire some 1,050 new public housing through trial and error (70% more starting) and build another 2,000 to dedicate them to social rent (515% investment), far from the 5,000 initially agreed. They also foresee 100 million euros for rental assistance (53,000 beneficiary families) and reinforce the inspection for compliance with the housing and rent law. The modification of judicial launch protocol has been promoted, but has been stopped by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), for which the Government undertakes to “limit as much as possible & rdquor; their performance and to monitor it, but not to eliminate their intervention in the launches of vulnerable families as agreed after the elections.

The office to design a pilot plan to study the implementation of the Universal Basic Income was approved in June and, two and a half months later, the Government appointed doctor in sociology Sergi Raventós as head. The Generalitat undertakes that the test is underway, at the latest, on December 1, 2022 with a new game of four million euros, thus complying with the investiture pact. At the same time, the endowment of the Guaranteed Citizenship Income (11 million euros) to reach 230,000 beneficiaries, a plan will be launched against energy poverty (13 million euros) and for ex-ward youth with 25% more spending (60 million euros). Likewise, the professionals of the residences hired as a result of the impact of the covid-19 (411 people) will be maintained.

After the elections, ERC and CUP agreed on the withdrawal of private accusations against pro-independence protesters as long as the agents did not accredit injuries with a medical certificate and, in this line, the Government offers its withdrawal in seven cases as a result of the riots of January 30, 2018, before the failed investiture of the ‘expresident’ Carles Puigdemont, and the beginning of a systematic process of all open procedures is proposed, also reviewing their role in the event that authorship cannot be demonstrated.

Another point made is the fact that the criminal defense of the Mossos d’Esquadra is now in the hands of the Central Legal Cabinet, which depends on the Presidency, and not one part only pending the Interior; in addition to creating a study commission on the police model to review the use of foam projectiles that is already underway and presides over the CUP. Of course, they criticize the continuation of the “racist police raids” in the Catalan police, despite the fact that a commission on institutional racism has been launched in the Parliament.

The Government undertakes not to assume “in any case” the cost of purchasing the CRT-Vilaseca land for the construction of the macroproject of the Hard Rock and will not formalize the candidacy for Winter Olympic Games until the territory has voted on this project, to whose vote they will allocate about 800,000 euros. These two advances are significant for the CUP, although they emphasize that the Executiu maintains its current proposal aspiring to have no cost on the public administration.

To study the creation of a public energy During the first half of 2022, 500,000 euros are saved (ridiculous for the CUP) and another 56 million euros for the pact for the industry. They also plan to deploy a technical-legal support service to areas that want to review the concessions of hydroelectric power plants and develop before the end of 2022 the pending taxes from the climate change law with the cruise tax this November. What has not been fulfilled is the moratorium on renewables.

Regarding public banking, the request for a bank card from March in the Bank of Spain.

There is no progress on the commitment of the investiture pact to “generate the conditions and the necessary agreements so that we can raise a new democratic onslaught, during this legislature, by the way that the independence movement as a whole values ​​as the most appropriate& rdquor ;. In fact, tensions were evident in the Parliament when the CUP forced a date to hold the consultation before 2025, which fell due to the abstention of ERC against the deadlines and the vote against the Junts, which continues to give validity to 1-O. On the contrary, it was approved that only an agreed referendum can replace the one of 2017.

The agreement on the dialogue table remains in force despite the skepticism of the CUP. And it is that ERC continues exploring “to the maximum & rdquor; this forum for two years without this compromising the “support or opposition & rdquor; from the ‘cuperos’ to the Government, who have demonstrated in the streets against the thaw.

There is also no news about the National Agreement for Amnesty and Self-Determination to “prepare the conditions for a new democratic onslaught & rdquor ;, although CUP sources assure that it has not been due to the lack of will of the Executiu, but because there is a lack of members to close it.

On parliamentary sovereignty, all the proposals for resolutions that have to do with self-determination and the monarchy have been processed, despite the warnings in other legislatures of the Constitutional Court and the cases, already tried or in process, against former pro-independence representatives in the Parliamentary Committee.