Parliament rejects the economic agreement with the vote of the PSC

BarcelonaA few days before the Bilateral Commission that must specify the new financing model for Catalonia In the context of the agreement reached between the current government and ERC for the investiture of Salvador Illa, the PSC has demonstrated a position that is not new, but which it had avoided verbalizing since signing the agreement with the Republicans: the rejection of an economic agreement for Catalonia. The Socialists have exhibited their position in a Junts motion on fiscal policy that was voted on this afternoon in the Parliament and which called for "eradicating the fiscal deficit" through new financing for Catalonia that requires an economic agreement and is located "outside the framework of the Lofca." This point only received the support of ERC, which has shown its maximum position, but it remains to be seen how it will combine with the position of the Socialists in ten days. In any case, the plenary session of the Parliament rejected the economic agreement, with votes against from the PSC, PP, Vox, and abstentions from the Comuns, CUP, and Aliança Catalana.

The motion of the judiciary members also put in writing the drafting of a law that would allow the Generalitat to have "full fiscal and regulatory sovereignty over all taxes collected in Catalonia, as well as the levy, management, liquidation, collection and inspection only through the Agència Tributària de Catalunya" and also "the methodology to determine the methodology to determine." Junts also puts in writing that "the solidarity contribution" to the State should be decided by the Generalitat "following European standards, in a transparent and evaluable manner." After the words of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, who ruled out different funding for Catalonia than the rest of the regions, Junts MP Antoni Castellà has sent a message to socialists and republicans: "What applies to everyone cannot be singular [...]. Singular is unique, plural is the coffee for everyone that we have today."

ERC extends its hand to Junts

Republican MP Albert Salvadó lamented that Junts (Junts) had not accepted their amendment on financing, in which they argued that the economic agreement was the one they had agreed upon for Isla's investiture and noted that it was comparable to the 2005 Statute proposal, "later scaled back by the agreement between PSOE and CiU." "It would be easier if we were to form a Junts and ERC coalition, but where are the Junts members?" Salvadó asked. "I invite Junts to work together to change the financing system," he concluded. The term "Junts" is not used in the agreement to invest Salvador Illa. economic agreement, but it does specify that the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) will have the power to collect all taxes and then define a contribution to the State, and a solidarity quota will be established.

A model that the Republicans once sold as a "solidarity economic agreement," but the Socialists have never embraced this term. In fact, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, said a few weeks ago from Navarre that the new financing for Catalonia would be "different" from the Basque and Navarrese agreement. PSC MP Susana Martínez Heredia has attacked the regional council members for not accepting an amendment that resembled what they had included in the regional council members' electoral manifesto a year ago. "At what point did you stop agreeing with what you yourselves committed to?" she asked. In their amendment, the Socialists added what is also in the agreement with ERC: empowering the ATC to "collect all taxes, manage them, and provide a solidarity quota between Catalonia and Spain, and establishing the principle of ordinality as the basis for this."