The President of the Government insists that he does not contemplate any other horizon other than that of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia based on the results of last May 12. “To lead the new stage in Catalonia, all roads pass through Salvador Illa,” he claimed during his speech at a conference of the Cercle de Economía in Barcelona.
Pedro Sánchez has called for moving “from the bloc policy” of the last decade in Catalonia to a “cross-cutting policy.” “If we achieve that we will have taken a very substantial step towards resolving one of the biggest constitutional crises in Spain and Catalonia,” he said. And he has guaranteed that his Government will maintain the agreements adopted with the previous Catalan administration and that it will, therefore, face debt forgiveness and a reform of the financing system.
“We are going to maintain the commitments made with the previous administration, we are going to address the debate on regional financing, we are going to redouble all investment efforts and we are going to have a government that is going to respect Catalan history and culture,” it was stated. engaged.
Sánchez has highlighted that the forgiveness of this Catalan debt, committed to in the investiture agreement with ERC, represents “an effort that we assume because we believe it is fair.” And he has assured that he will maintain his roadmap to reform an autonomous financing system that Catalonia also demands. This will be done, as he has stressed, within the legal framework established by the Catalan statute, which in the opinion of the President of the Government offers plenty of mechanisms to address the improvement of financing without delving into the own treasury claimed by the independence movement. “I appeal not to fall into territorial grievances,” he demanded.
Sánchez was presented by Jaume Guardiola, president of the Catalan Cercle d’Economía, who thanked the head of the Executive for “the process of normalization of Catalan life.” “The institutional situation that Catalonia has recovered in recent years is largely related to your Government action and we want to thank you publicly,” Guardiola told Sánchez, who was the protagonist of a conference in the Catalan capital.
Regarding the formation of a new Government, Guardiola has asked “that it have a minimum of stability” and has warned that calling new elections would have a very high political and economic cost.
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