Yes, there are still ideologies. AND Together for Catalonia It is not only a pro-independence party, but its intention is to place itself at the center of the board, between the left and the right. Serve this previous to explain that the party of the ‘expresident’ Carles Puigdemont opts, today, clearly for the PSC as a partner to approve the Government’s budgets if the CUP finally does not support the project, given that the anti-capitalists are still very critical of the plans of the Minister of Economy, Jaume Giró.
The government sources consulted confirm that, for JxCat, the strategy is clear: put all the meat on the grill to achieve the ‘yes’ of the CUP or, at least, three abstentions by the anti-capitalists. But this will not make the Economy jump red lines: nor will it increase taxes on the highest incomes as demanded by the ‘cupaires’ (it proposes in exchange a reduction of personal income tax to the lowest incomes, which would benefit more than 70% of those who pay this tax annually), nor will it invest 1,000 million euros in health (the budgeted figure is somewhat less than 650 million), despite the fact that this is stated in the government pact between ERC and JxCat, because it does not have this money to invest in Catalan health .
Moreover, JxCat has made it clear this Tuesday to the CUP that it will not wait for its approval to approve the accounts in the Executive Council and maintains its intention to do so The next Tuesday, November 9. It will do so, predictably, without having closed the ‘yes’ or the anti-capitalist abstention. But it will present them yes or yes. Faced with this pressure, the CUP on Tuesday reiterated its demand for an independence referendum and a turn to the left. But all this does not make the Government nervous, which maintains that in some departments, such as the Interior, measures are being approved in accordance with the pact with the CUP.
The PSC, waiting
But … what if the CUP ends up failing? Junts maintains a sidereal distance with the socialists on the identity axis. It should be remembered that only 9 months ago the agreement by which JxCat promised not to agree with the PSC after the February elections. But Junts governs with the socialists in the Barcelona Provincial Council, he has understood with them in the Parliament (outside the criteria of ERC) on issues such as El Prat airport expansion, and is convinced that a budget pact is perfectly feasible with those of Salvador Illa. Both have repeatedly offered to support the accounts. And the Economics team sees an entente feasible that would place Junts in the temperate space of the ideological axis and away from the postulates of the CUP or the ‘comuns’, the other possible dance partner of the Government for the accounts.
In the background lies the old struggle Together-ERC on political hegemony. Puigdemont’s party starts from the premise that ERC wants to reissue the left tripartite and leave JxCat by the wayside. The way to counteract this is to leave, in a sense, Esquerra in a ditch with the radicals and pass measures such as the Winter Olympic Games or the Hard Rock, as well as a prudent fiscal policy (without raising taxes, beyond the environmental ones), from the hand of the socialists.
This possibility would be made more feasible if, in the coming weeks, the negotiations between the Government and the Boards on the State Budgets advanced, despite the initial slam of the post-convergence parties with an amendment to the entirety. Amendment that Junts defends because the socialists “have made it inevitable because they have not offered concretions to the independence movement” (in the covid fund for Catalonia – 1,200 million are claimed – or the management of European funds, among other issues). But the hand of JxCat is still outstretched and a possible agreement for state accounts would facilitate reciprocity in the Catalan with the PSC. “It would be bingo”, admit the cited sources.
ERC, with the CUP
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Meanwhile, ERC is not worried. They are “aware from the first second” that the negotiation with the anti-capitalists would not be “easy” and, for the moment, they maintain that their only “priority” is to repeat the “majority of the investiture, that is, the independence movement, that is, 52% “. One way of saying that it is on the roof of the CUP to keep alive that 52% of the pure independence vote of the last elections.
Republicans also assure behind the scenes that they will not find interlocutors better predisposed than they if what it is really about is to budget all the points of the ERC-CUP agreement for the investiture of Pere Aragonès. For all this, and also to have a free hand in Madrid and avoid entering into the game of reciprocities with the socialists, ERC rules out any agreement of this magnitude with the PSC. “The CUP knows that the alternative to us is the sociovergence that is already observed in the Barcelona Provincial Council and that has already appeared in matters such as the expansion of El Prat& rdquo ;, says a voice from the Palau de la Generalitat.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com