Salvador Illa pockets the first budgets of the legislature

BarcelonaSalvador Illa will reach the midpoint of the legislature with the political stability he sought. This Thursday, Parliament will definitively approve the budgets that, weeks ago, he agreed upon with Esquerra and Comuns, the two investiture partners who this morning will add their votes to validate the first accounts of the socialist government. However, both parties warned this Wednesday that their support is not a blank check, but rather they demand further steps from the executive to fulfill the investiture agreements. Especially the Republicans, who are awaiting the materialization of their star pact, the new financing model, which at this time depends on the support that the socialists can achieve in Congress, where it must be validated.

The railway orbital line was ERC's key to the budgets. The Republicans renounced the transfer of IRPF collection as an indispensable condition for approving the budgets, as they had set until March, when the Government withdrew the project it had presented without guaranteed support. After noting the failure of negotiations, both parties made a reset and they decided to give negotiation another chance. The result was an agreement for the fourth main railway belt and to leave the IRPF file for later. The party of Oriol Junqueras, in fact, wants to reopen it for the autumn, when the new financing model should enter Congress awaiting the necessary support for it to see the light. And at this point, the position of Junts is key, which for now rejects validating it because it considers it insufficient.

The commons, for their part, extracted a series of commitments from the Government on housing matters, mainly, which include 2.5 billion euros for this area. Resources that would be allocated to expanding the public housing stock, financing rental assistance, and also to housing rehabilitation. In addition, the group led by Jéssica Albiach in Parliament also agreed with the Government to rethink the R-Airport.