Illa asks to abandon the « permanent boycott temptation » and face serenity financing | News from Catalonia
He President Salvador Illa has called for « seny « In the initial greeting of the Presidents Conferencewhich is celebrated for the first time in 20 years in Barcelona and has started in the midst of enormous tension between the government and the regional presidents of the PP. Before the main door of the Pedralbes Palace, Illa, as host, has appealed to common sense, to the celebration of a constructive debate and has claimed the use of co -official languages just also at the time when Spain claims its officiality to the EU. « Understanding that is understanding Spain, » said Illa, who has already asked to abandon the temptation of the « permanent boycott » and serenely address the reform of the financing debate.
Accompanied by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, Illa wanted to thank that it can be used for the first time In this forum, the co -official languages that he has defined as a « heritage of all. » « It is a wealth. And it is an invitation to know it (the Catalan language), to enjoy it and to use it. Understanding it is an expression of the reality of our country, » said the President, that on many occasions he uses the two languages interchangeably and usually changes to Spanish without major problem in acts with guests outside Catalonia. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, warned this Thursday that she would abandon the forum if another language was used – « it is a golferia, » he said – that he was not Spanish and had to use pinganillos.
In the midst of a huge stir and journalists’ careers for the Jardines de Pedralbes, Ayuso has fulfilled his half -threat because he has abandoned the room for a few minutes when his intervention has begun Lehendakari by virtue of being the president with an older statute. Imanol Pradales has opened the forum greeting in Catalan and then speaking in Basque. Then, Illa has fully carried out his intervention in Catalan while President Galician has made the greeting in his language and then has already passed to Spanish. Ayuso then has returned.
During his speech, Illa has called his homonyms of the PP to abandon the « easy criticism » and « permanent boycott temptation » to encourage constructive policy. Sitting that premise, the President He has made a 10 -minute speech in which he has approached his philosophy of shared prosperity, housing, the energy modelFP, immigration and financing. Aware that the presidents of the PP would criticize the unique model agreed in Catalonia with ERC, Illa has claimed to face that debate with « serenity », « let’s talk clearly: we must review and reform », he stated, noting pointing out that he has not heard any of the autonomic presidents deny that need.
Illa has argued that Catalonia wants to address the debate with « rigor, responsibility and solidarity. » « I ask my colleagues to get away from noise, prejudices and stereotypes so that everyone can work for the benefit of the general interests of this plural and diverse Spain, » he said. Illa has already warned on Wednesday in the Parliament that he will not have any inconvenience in addressing the singular financing model as long as it was not to make « mess » that was what he suspected that he wanted the PP. The Government is struggling these weeks the landing of that model to meet the calendar that demands that it be ready before June 30. The first measure goes through the Generalitat collects the IRPF next year.
Apart from financing, Illa has extended particularly in housing, where Catalonia is a pioneer in market regulation. « When the market fails, governments have the obligation to intervene, » he said, pointing out that the objective of his mandate is to build 4,400 protected floors – without the possibility that in the future they lose that condition – from now on to 2030. Under the motto of shared prosperity, axis of his mandate, illa argues that a society cannot be cohesive if that essential good is not resolved. And it gives this example that something fails: the Catalan economy grew 3.5%by 2024, but the poverty threshold was not reduced. Therefore, in addition to building floors, it is processing a law to avoid fraud in seasonal rental.
The strategy followed by Catalonia is giving, in Illa’s trial, results in the containment of income. After the application of the so -called tension zones, the average rental price has fallen by 4.7% year -on -year in Catalonia, and in Barcelona, 8.9%. The measure has triggered that rental contracts are extended because the owners cannot raise prices. « The agreement (proposed by the Government) is very relevant so much because it implies more resources and greater transparency, » said the President in allusion to the government plan to invest 7,000 million in housing. Aligned with La Moncloa, Illa has defended a 100% renewable energy model, the creation of the next course of 7,000 FP places and an immigration management « with order but with humanity. » « We cannot fall into the dehumanization of the most reactionary speeches, » he concluded.
