Budgets for Sant Joan: Salvador Illa's new roadmap

BarcelonaAfter doing a reset With the support of ERC, the Catalan government hopes that negotiations with the Republicans will bear fruit and that the budget will be approved before Sant Joan (St. John's Day). This was stated by the Minister of Economy, Alícia Romero, in an interview with SER Catalunya this Monday. In fact, she asserted that the budget should be submitted to Parliament again between the end of April and the beginning of May to begin the legislative process and be approved before June 24th. "The later the budget is approved, the harder it is to implement, and there are a couple of plenary sessions in July," she stated. Romero believes this would be the ideal timeline "to avoid any problems."

The Catalan executive He withdrew the budget bill last week After an agreement with ERC, in which the Republicans also made concessions and stopped making income tax revenue a red line, Romero celebrated that this condition had "disappeared" as a "condition." "I think this has now disappeared from the conditions. I think it's positive on everyone's part," Romero stated. "We were at an impasse."

The Minister of Economy believes that ERC did a "disservice" to the negotiations by imposing conditions that were not solely within the Catalan government's control. The Minister of Economy reiterated to ERC that there is no need to rush the transfer of personal income tax (IRPF) revenue because Catalonia is currently "not prepared" to manage it. "We don't have our instrument, the Catalan Tax Agency, ready for this. There's no need to rush," she stated. Romero also asserted that the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, bears "zero blame and responsibility" regarding the transfer of IRPF revenue and affirmed that the Andalusian elections have no bearing on the matter. "People don't vote for one person or another based on IRPF," she stated.