The Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, questioned the Junts deputy Albert Batet this Thursday in the plenary session of the Parliament about whether his party will support the new financing model when it reaches Congress: "Where are you?"
"There is the possibility of taking a step forward and having a proposal that puts 4.7 billion on the table. A singular financing model, also agreed with the Government. Will you oppose it or not? Will you put spokes in the wheels of the country's future?", he posed to them in a tense exchange of reproaches.
Dalmau argued that Junts should consider whether they truly want to be useful to the interests of Catalan citizens, which, in his opinion, implies exercising opposition but also reaching agreements. He insisted that the Government continues "with an outstretched hand" to ERC and Comuns – who have made the approval of the Budgets possible – and also to Junts, for the benefit of Catalonia.
In this regard, he pointed out that the Catalan Executive keeps the door open to Junts because, despite the discrepancies, it considers that the party "has important things to contribute to the country."
These words came after Batet accused the socialists of trying to veto this interpellation in which they demanded a balance of the legislature from the Government and insisted that it fulfill the agreements approved in the Chamber: "It is not enough to sign agreements, they must be fulfilled. And in this, the PSC is like the PSOE, they do not fulfill and they are not trustworthy."
A "weak and unstable" Government, according to Junts
Batet described the Catalan Executive as a "weak and unstable" Government, which he sees as "subordinate" to the PSOE and the Government of Pedro Sánchez, and which he has branded as a bad manager, negligent, and acting with "arrogance and haughtiness." Therefore, he called for a change of course and profound changes in the structure of the Government.
"You are a disaster, you do nothing right," stated the Junts deputy, who directed his criticism at all the ministers and censured the management in areas such as education, health, infrastructure, and security. Furthermore, he warned the socialists that they face two years of "ordeal," convinced that ERC and Comuns will seek to distance themselves and that the Executive will have to face the legislature in minority with 42 deputies.
Dalmau has responded by rejecting the idea that it is a weak Government, and has used as proof the approval of the Budgets and 12 bills, "compared to 4 from the previous legislature and 3 from two years ago". He also recalled that, when Junts shared the Government with ERC, they decided to leave Pere Aragonès' Executive, and has urged them to assume the part of responsibility that, in his opinion, corresponds to them in many of Catalonia's current challenges.
"This black and white country they insist on painting does not correspond to the reality of Catalonia and does no good to the country," Dalmau has stressed, vindicating the Government's priorities in housing, health, education, and security, and reviewing other projects that the Executive has promoted in these areas.