Salvador Illa's bodyguards

BarcelonaIn a month's time, Salvador Illa's government will have approved the first budgets of the legislature. An agreement with Comuns and ERC that gives the executive breathing room and certifies that this is currently the only viable majority in Catalonia. Republicans and Comuns already invested Illa and, despite the tug-of-war of the last two years, they continue to be the partners that give him stability. Even to avoid inconvenient appearances by the president in Parliament. This Tuesday, for the second consecutive week, ERC, Comuns, and the PSC prevented the chamber from summoning Illa. Junts wanted him to appear to explain the role of the Generalitat in the crisis opened with public school teachers. Seven days ago, the Junts, with the support of PP and Vox, demanded that the president respond for the cases of alleged corruption that splash the PSOE (and that the judge does not rule out entirely that they have a derivative in the PSC).

She herself justified last week's noShe herself justified last week's 'no' by saying that Esquerra "will not play into the hands of PP and Vox" regarding the judicial cases affecting the PSOE, and about which the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, will explain himself on June 24 in the Congress of Deputies.

The Commons and Republicans did indeed add their vote to demand the dismissal of the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, for the infiltration of Mossos agents in a teachers' assembly, and the Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, in case the conflict with the teachers is prolonged. But making Illa appear against his will would be slapping him at a time of theoretical complicity between the parties. From the opposition, Junts wants to take advantage of the moment to reinforce the thesis it is trying to get the public to accept: the "failures" of Illa's government are those of the "tripartite" that supports him.