The ‘comuns’ displace the CUP as allies of the government in the votes of Parliament

Months of chaotic negotiations led to the nomination of Generalitat President Pere Aragonès for the legislature that began after the February election. It was not easy, as is almost always the case in the recent history of Catalonia, but the CUP decides to lend its support to a coalition government between ERC and Junts per Catalunya with casting votes, but loaded with warnings and in the face of criticism from the ‘comuns’ and the PSC, who opposed the pact but presented themselves more or less vehemently to parliamentary agreements.

Eight months have passed since the investment debate, and the numbers left by the votes in Parliament meet some of the predictions of the interventions on that day. The government found in the party led by Jéssica Albiach your great ally to carry out your legislative initiatives. According to data compiled by EL PERIÓDICO, the ‘comuns’ voted in favor of ratifying 12 of the 16 decree laws of the Executive, and against only three of them. The press was also fundamental in approving the only two laws enacted by the Government, the budget law and the one known as the ‘accompanying law’: with their abstention, they gave the green light to the coalition’s accounts for 2022.

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The PSC is also not far behind, supporting more than half of the government’s decrees, 9 out of 16, and only one of which opposed the regulation on renewable energy. On top of that, three of his six abstentions were determining factors to enable the ratification of these three decrees those opposed by the ‘comuns’: the first two to come to the Chamber and approved by the acting government – economic measures on the pandemic and another change in the calendar of the new tariff for accommodation in tourist establishments – and the text lottery regulation.

Another pending topic of Catalan law was the reappointment of numerous high-ranking parliamentary appointments, many of them gather five years in office and wait for majorities – a count of them has not been renewed even longer than the Judiciary. Salvador Illa, head of the first party in the House, ended the year by concluding negotiations with ERC and Junts to renew the 122 pending posts and bloc, which will soon have to be sealed in a vote. And the possible similarities do not end there. The PSC leader also wants to promote the adoption of a Catalan electoral law.

If the Catalan legislature came from the ground up, it was also thanks to the CUP. The anti-capitalists would be the partners who would provide the parliamentary majority to the governing coalition, but the reality is that they were opposed to supporting the Executive Board’s bills, it endorsed only half of its decrees, 8 of 16, and opposed even more than the PP, 5 ‘no’ compared to 4 ‘no’ of the popular.

That the cupaires tighten the rope surprises no one, not even the Government, but their support is not decisive when the ‘comuns’ finally come to the parliamentary majority of ERC and Junts’ rescue. That of the investment was the only vote in which the votes in favor of the anti-system for the coalition were needed.

Right anchored to ‘no’

In the right-wing voices, there are no big surprises. Vox holds the record of ‘no’ to Government legislative initiatives, an almost systematic vote against —13 of the 16 decrees and the two budget laws – only interrupted by the abstention in which it changes the way in which university students have to accredit a third language and the vote in favor of Catalan officials who get the extra partially back. paid from 2014, the only standard unanimously approved.

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Ciutadans surpasses the PP in votes against by five, the same as the CUP. The PP gave four ‘no’ and six ‘yes’ to government decrees, while Cs voted in favor of five. The two formations remained six times. The voice differences between the two are not very significant —When one votes for or against, the other remembers one and vice versa—, except in the decree of euthanasia, which supported the oranges against the no of the popular, and that of the tourist rate, in which the opposite took place.

The last text to receive Parliament’s approval was that of substitute violence, the one perpetrated by abusers against the children of their victims and amending the Catalan Civil Code on the supervision of minors. The unanimity of the major parties in the House was opposed by the abstention of Cs and PPs, and the vote against by the extreme right.