The application of the new Fiscal Pact or recovering coexistence in Catalonia and modernizing public policies, some of the most important issues of the legislature, according to experts consulted by ‘Euronews’.
Salvador Illa has been invested president of the Generalitat of Catalonia this Thursday in a full frenzy that has culminated the end of the independence governments in the autonomous community.
“Catalonia must look forward. I will rule for all“said the new president in his speech with nods to the independence movement.”I come to buildnot to dismantle”, he continued.
But the reality is that their training, andl Socialist Party of Cataloniahas needed the votes of the independentists. Support from Republican Left It has been essential that the vote went ahead.
However, they have been critical of Illa. From Junts they have called him a “branch president” for being under the orders of Moncloa, as they say; and from Esquerra they have assured that the independence process “It’s not over”.
A day marked by Puigdemont’s escape
All this was happening inside the Parliament of Catalonia while Carles Puigdemont escaped from the Policewho should have detained him this Thursday in application of the arrest warrant issued by Judge Llarena for the crime of embezzlement of which he is accused.
Puigdemont, who has appeared publicly to take a mass bath and pronounce a speech at the Arc de Triomphe from the Catalan capital, has avoided arrest. He would have been escorted by off-duty Mossos d’Esquadra according to the JUPOL police union.
Salvador Illa will not have it easy
In this context, everything suggests that Salvador Illa will not have it easy. It seems that it awaits you ahead a complicated legislature to the new president of the Generalitat. “A turning point in the Catalan and national Executive begins,” analyst Hugo Pereira explains to ‘Euronews’.
“It tries to show that independence is no longer a priority of the ‘Govern’, but at the same time Pedro Sanchez gain oxygen earlierand relentless opposition which already concluded its term,” he explains.
What is the Government pact between PSC and ERC like?
Although there has been a government pact between the PSC and ERC, there is no programmatic agreement and this can bring headaches to Salvador Illa during his term.
Analyst Álex Cortés explains to ‘Euronews’ that “no one guarantees that the legislative reforms made by the PSC will be approved by Republican Left“.
Not only that, Cortés does not even put his hand in the fire for the stability of the new Executive. “We could end up in a situation of institutional blockade. Now Illa has come forward with the investiture, but Nobody can guarantee that in a year it will continue being at the head of the Catalan Executive,” he says.
The truth is that the relationship of these events with national politics is inevitable given that Sánchez’s Government depends on the independence parties to carry out any initiative in the Congress of Deputies.
“The new president, Salvador Illa, and the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, are shackled by intricate parliamentary arithmetic“, explains Hugo Pereira in this medium.
“If the legislature at the national level, that of Pedro Sánchez, appears completely unstable, that of Salvador Illa has signs that he will be even more so”Add. Now the socialist will have to face important challenges.
Puigdemont, key at national and regional level
It is something that Cortés agrees with, who recalls that Sánchez, in Congress, “depends largely on the votes of Junts and, right now, Carles Puigdemont is demonstrating a very suspicious attitude“.
ADVERTISING“Salvador Illa’s main challenge at the political level is, in effect, comply with the electoral program agreed with ERC. Furthermore, putting into practice its main promise: the improve coexistence in Catalonia“, explains Pereira.
What are Salvador Illa’s challenges in this legislature?
“At the management level, improve questioned public services -fundamentally an education that has fallen precipitously into the PISA report– and above all convert back to Catalonia in the economic engine of Spain attracting, once again, companies that left Catalonia,” he adds.
But they are not the only issues that Catalonia needs. Among the aspects that Salvador Illa will have to face in the next four years, that of modernize public policies.
Cortés assures that this is the main issue because “you have to put a lot of effort into the policies, the economy, promote tourism developmentregulate even the tourist apartments, which is another issue that already is bringing headaches throughout Spain but especially in Barcelona“.
ADVERTISINGNew fiscal pact
But if there is something that marks this new stage in Catalonia, it is the new Fiscal Pact. “It implies that Catalonia collect virtually all your taxes leaving the general regime of the autonomous communities”.
This issue has been highly criticized for promoting inequality between communities. “The principle of equality is broken,” says Cortés. It has been part of the price that Salvador Illa and the Socialist Party have had to pay to govern Catalonia. One more in the long list of concessions to the independentistswho leave the regional Executive after 14 uninterrupted years.
