Negotiations to possibly complete the transfer of Rodalies, the Catalan Cercanías, to the Generalitat is not a thorny issue between the Government and the pro-independence parties in Congress. It also generates speech imbalances within the Catalan formations. This Wednesday, in the Parliament, Junts has made clear the different sensitivities on the subject within them, although the party believes that they are complementary positions. While the head of ranks, Albert Batet, has defended during the control session in the Parliament the official line of conditioning the transfer to support for the General State Budgets, the vice president Jordi Puigneró has advocated for “unlinking” both issues. Junts and ERC, for their part, have agreed to demand mechanisms for compliance with budgetary agreements with the Government.
Last Monday, the party’s spokeswoman, Elsa Artadi, had already assured that the negotiation of the accounts “could not be separated from elements that affect the public,” where she included the topic Rodalies or ensure the promotion of Catalan within the future audiovisual law. Along the same lines, Batet insisted on Wednesday, offering the president Pere Aragonès to negotiate five points en bloc with the Government: in addition to the transfer of the Catalan Cercanías, to maintain for next year the extraordinary funds that were launched by the covid, the co-management of European funds, the defense of Catalan and seek how ensure that the execution of the works already committed increases. ERC is open to negotiating any pact, but rules out a policy of voting unity with the Junts in Congress.
But the statements by Batet and Artadi seem to clash with the position that Puigneró has also defended in parliament. “I ask the groups to vote what they vote in the General Budgets, that we all commit ourselves to making this a reality as soon as possible and Rodalies can be managed from Catalonia,” said the main voice of the Boards in the Government to an interpellation of his own party on railway infrastructures. “Let’s not link it to the Budgets, let’s make the political will of it,” he added.
Junts has not been slow to try to qualify both positions and deny a clash that, if one sticks to the literality of the statements, is evident. From the Puigneró environment they have clarified that both positions are not contradictory if it is taken into account that to achieve the transfer it is necessary not only the budget item that will be the object of a vote in Congress but also the political will to reach an agreement, for example , in the Bilateral Commission.
ERC’s votes are key for the Sánchez government to be able to carry out its accounts, if it also manages to add the PNV and other minority groups that facilitated the investiture of the socialist. The Republicans try to maintain their freedom to vote despite the continued insistence of the Junts to vote the accounts en bloc and thus press for the resolution of the political conflict. Aragonès and Batet clashed again over the composition of the Catalan delegation at the dialogue table.
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