Salvador Illa redounts Catalonia waiting for financing | News from Catalonia

At 20.54 hours on the blackout, the Government received a communication from the National Emergency Center To know if I wanted to ask for the emergency level 3 that involves delegating the powers to the government as Madrid, Extremadura, Andalucía, Murcia, La Rioja, Galicia, Valencia (all of the PP) and Castilla-La Mancha (PSOE) had done. After another meeting of the crisis committee, the President Salvador Illa rejected at 23.00 the measure per disproportionate and for not having a risk for people. Illa revealed the episode on Tuesday in the Parliament, where he appeared at his own request to detail his management, criticized by the opposition. « I do not share what they did (the other presidents). When there are problems, you have to face them. It is the best way to make country. We want maximum self -government to exercise it and not to complain or claim or when there is one difficulty to pass it to another administration. »

This mention of self -government is a reflection of the reality that Catalonia lives at this stage in which the Proces. The refereeNdum for independence seems erased from the map although surveys continue to say that 38% of citizens – the lowest figure since 2015 – is in favor of it. After years of very high agitation, politics has stopped monopolizing the conversations and the look is set In the attempted hostile OPA from BBVA to Sabadellin the colossal Rodalies crisis, in the financing model and, of course, in Barça. Ililla celebrates tomorrow a year of his electoral victory that, this time, he raised him to the Palau (won in 2021, but could not govern) crowning a cycle in which the Socialists take all institutions since 2010. With the aim of improving public services and reorienting Catalonia, Illa defeated an independence worn into internal fights and left him for the first time since 2015 without an absolute majority.

With 42 deputies about 135, Illa cost three months to land an agreement on the investiture and lives by agreeing daily with its ERC (20) and common partners (6). He has not pulled variable geometry and his commitment to that block is granithic. However, it has not been able to approve budgets and negotiate three credit supplements –3.5 billion – of which 2,168 have received this week light green in the Parliament. Illa relativizes not having accounts and that its predecessor, the Expresident Pere Aragonès anticipated the elections for not having them. It is not being an idyllic coexistence between the three investiture partners but is far from being a tripartite of lefts like the one ruled by Catalonia in the first decade of the century no matter how much Junts or the PP so qualifies it. Illa has not created a group that brings together the three partners and this week the block implused for differences on the new tourist rate. Gravamen has ended up in anger to the sector.

Aware that his Government moves in Movedizas Arenas, Illa has tried not to irritate its partnersavoiding setting a position in thorny issues and being very careful in forms. Its objective has been to return to Catalonia that it considers institutional normality. So much, that in a handful of months the Sabadell and the La Caixa group have returned to Catalonia and even the CUP has knocked on its door to negotiate. With socialists in the two governments, the bilateral commission now flows: 3,000 financing has been agreed Mossos more until 2030 and the Transfers Commission has been stopped for 14 years. And all that has combined by attending the parade of Hispanic Day in Madrid and with audiences with the king and emulating Jordi Pujol, the president for antonomasia of autonomism. Illa has recovering many of the convergent winks: the impulse of the Association of the four European engines (Lombardy, Baden Würtemberg and Auvernia-Rhone-Los Alpes) or the chocolate of Sant Jordi’s day in the Pati Dels Tarongers, annulled at the end after decreeing three days of grief for the death of Pope Francis.

Its objective, he says, is to generate prosperity and share it and turn Catalonia into the economic engine of Spain. Your star project is to build 50,000 floors from here to 2030 And on Wednesday, in the closure of the Colle de Economics Conference, he announced that 226 municipalities have yielded 665 plots to start building. With that first public land bank, the Executive considers that it will be able to build more than 21,000 protected rental floors. The Government has also agreed with the entire left to avoid seasonal rental frauds, but stability will not be given its priority in housing but compliance with the investiture commitment reached with ERC: in June you must close an agreement with the government to display the new financing model in which Catalonia, without leaving the Lofca, collects and liquidates all. The first is the IRPF from 2026.

The advances or not in that chapter will clarify the future of the legislature in which one of lime and one of sand is already glimpsed. Aragonès anticipated the elections in the middle of a huge drought (the reservoirs were 24%) and now it has not stopped raining (they are in 74%) and the emergency has passed to better life. The Government remains faithful to its road map to have all the infrastructure planned to be self -sufficient and not depend on the future of the water that falls from the sky. Overcome this chapter, Illa knows that he will live with the perpetual railway crisis of Rodalies, the same as the embryo of the Proces In 2007. Thousands and thousands of passengers have been affected daily by a bad service that the Executive undressed like this: one in four trains of Catalonia is unusable. With a bud transfer, the Government blames the delays to the works that are being done now and that were not done for years. The Parliament, with the consent of ERC, requested the dismissal for the fiasco of the responsible counselor, Sílvia Paneque. And it is about to see the final outcome of the possible extension of the airport, rejected by its partners.

Illa has traveled to Brussels twice, but has not been interviewed with the Expresident Carles Puigdemont Despite having done it with all its predecessors, Pujol included. The situation of the Junts leader remains the stone of his shoe because his normality speech is questioned when the PSOE meets Puigdemont in Switzerland without Illa. The outcome can arrive in summer, as soon, with the decision of the Constitutional Court on the Amnesty Law that affects both Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, which marks him as a metronome. Illa knows that this month awaits him with financing and amnesty a change of ground.