With the investiture of Pedro Sánchez now resolved, the PSC is preparing to prepare its next ordinary congress and oil the machinery to face the regional elections, scheduled for 2025. The National Council of the party has called this Saturday the congress, which will be held on the 13th, March 14 and 15. Salvador Illa, first secretary of the PSC, has announced that he intends to run for re-election. “I am at the service of Catalonia and at the service of Spain and precisely that is why I am at the service of the PSC. I announce to you on the day that the congress is convened that I will choose to run for the first secretary,” he stated amidst long applause.
Before a hundred councilors, Illa has highlighted in his political report the leap that the party has made since 2021, when it was subject to a sanitary cordon by the sovereigntist parties, to being central in both Catalan and Spanish politics. “We have gone from being in a corner to being central in useful politics. No useful agreement has been made without us. The objective of governing Catalonia: before it was heard, ara does not touch això, Ara doesn’t touch. Well today we say now and here: it’s Catalonia,” she exclaimed. Illa, who became the first secretary in 2021 to replace Miquel Iceta, thanked his predecessor and Raquel Sánchez, who have left the Council of Ministers, and greeted Jordi Hereu, the new head of Industry.
He has not made any mention of the fact that the PSC has lost visibility by losing a ministry in the distribution of portfolios, nor of the pact on the amnesty. With the focus on the regional elections, Illa has only mentioned that it is time to confirm that Catalonia has turned the page on “10 lost years”, in reference to the processes, and has referred to the need to address ideas and solve problems “that matter to Catalans”, symbolized by the drought and the lack of renewable energy. Using the management of the former president socialist José Montilla, Illa has asked himself: “What Catalonia do we want?” The one that made the El Prat desalination plant or the one that has to look at the sky? The one that was a pioneer in renewables or the one that is in the tail?” “Neither water nor energy. Now it’s time to govern. We have shown that the priorities of the Catalans are those of the PSC”, he proclaimed.
The PSC congress will propose strengthening the party and taking stock of the last mandate that Miquel Iceta and Salvador Illa have shared. Under the eloquent title of turn the page, The framework presentation criticizes the management of Pere Aragonès at the head of the Generalitat and supports the deployment of the Statute and federalism as opposed to the unilateral route, which he attributes to populism and which has put, he says, in danger “the democratic and civil cohesion”. “We are going to have a realistic debate without deception: we play peus a terra”, said Illa, who has proposed that the conclave be open, in addition to militancy, to party sympathizers.
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