Salvador Illa submits to pressure from his partners to gauge the oxygen in his term.

BarcelonaWith the uncertainty surrounding whether the Catalan government will have to survive another year without a budget as the midpoint of the term approaches, Salvador Illa faces his second general policy debate as president of the Generalitat. The plenary session, which begins this Tuesday, will serve to gauge the level of pressure from the partners, Esquerra (Republican Left) and Comuns (Comuns), and determine how far they are willing to go to give the legislature a boost. So far, both parties have warned that they will not sit down to negotiate next year's budget until they see "progress" on the one-off financing, in the case of the Republicans, and the government complies with the housing agreements, in the case of Comuns.

The Catalan government maintains that it will comply with the investiture agreements and that the president of the Generalitat will be "ambitious." The question is whether this ambition will be enough for the partners to continue to sustain governability. However, the Minister for the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, has assured that the Catalan government enjoys "solid stability" and reiterated that he has not yet opened budget negotiations because he is still preparing the project internally. Speaking to Catalunya Ràdio, Dalmau announced that during the general policy debate, President Salvador Illa will announce "more measures" in housing, with an eye toward public-private collaboration.

In fact, the steps that Esquerra (Republican Left) demands to comply with the financing agreement do not strictly depend on the government; rather, for Isla's commitment to be real, the Spanish government must be willing to take steps. In other words, the president needs the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) to make a move so that the government is not weakened. However, in this week's debate, the Catalan prime minister plans to insist on his commitment to implementing the new financing model and present it as the key to Catalonia's ability to improve public services, one of the Socialist leader's obsessions. Esquerra, in fact, will once again focus on this issue.

The Republicans have been demanding steps to materialize this pact for weeks, and this will be one of their main demands in the resolution proposals they will present during the debate, according to the parliamentary group. In recent weeks, Esquerra has accused the PSOE of dragging its feet on this issue, and the example that relations between the two parties are not at their best is that Republicans introduced the law in Congress alone This should serve to legally protect the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) in its ability to collect personal income tax. The Socialists disagree with the content of the regulation or the timing of the ERC's intention to present it.

A year ago, Salvador Illa used his first general policy debate to commit to funding, but he prioritized one of the points of the investiture agreement with ERC and Comuns: promote 50,000 public housing units by 2030. ...

The opposition, Juntos, already announced a few weeks ago that its goal is for Salvador Illa to commit to the Brussels Agreement, and most of its resolution proposals will be in that direction. In fact, the regional council members have already warned of this. during the meeting of the parliamentary group held in Waterloo in mid-September to prepare for the political course. "You can't build in Switzerland and destroy in Barcelona," point out sources from the parliamentary group, who accuse the PSC of "torpedoing the spirit" of the Brussels Agreement with votes in which the Socialists have participated alongside the PP and Vox – they estimate it has happened 80 times in the Parliament. The regional council members, in this regard, will also bring proposals to defend an economic agreement – they see the ERC pact with the Socialists as insufficient – or to reduce the tax burden, among others.

One of the issues that Carles Puigdemont's party demands from the PSOE is to materialize the transfer of immigration powers. A debate that It ended in failure a few days ago in Congress due to the veto of Podemos.. Precisely, the Lilacs have accused Junts of making this request to curb the rise of the Catalan Alliance. Sílvia Orriols' party will once again bring the immigration issue to the plenary session this week to warn, once again, of "the progression of Islamism" in Catalonia, in addition to presenting itself as "the only reference point for the 1-O mandate" that it considers "current," the party points out.

Along the same lines as the Catalan Alliance, Vox will once again link immigration with "insecurity" in a xenophobic discourse that is the tone of the two far-right parties. The PP, for its part, also wants to influence the immigration debate and security. The party also notes how the far-right led by Ignacio Garriga in Catalonia is hot on its heels. In fact, the latest poll by The Vanguard, a few days ago, indicated a overtaking of Vox in the PP in the next Catalan elections.