State and Generalitat meet to sign agreements with ERC for the budgets
The two governments celebrate the Bilateral Commission this Wednesday afternoon in Madrid
State and Generalitat meet this Wednesday afternoon in Madrid to sign the agreements with ERC for the Catalan budgets. This is the condition set by the Republicans to have a guarantee of compliance with those pacts that depend on Pedro Sánchez's executive. According to the agenda, the commission must give the green light to the orbital train line, the change of majorities in the Consortium of the Free Trade Zone, the commercial company that will supervise the execution of investments and, finally, the strengthening of competencies in coastal management.
The Bilateral Commission will be chaired by the Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, and the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres. In parallel to the Bilateral Commission, the Mixed Commission for Transfers will also meet, as explained by Salvador Illa's Government.
Wednesday's meeting takes place after ERC approved this Monday afternoon the agreement for new budgets after meeting its national council. Salvador Illa and Oriol Junqueras ratified the pact this Tuesday at the Palau de la Generalitat, where both signed it physically. To begin processing the budgets, the Government will convene an extraordinary executive council for this Friday to approve the bill and subsequently send it to Parliament.
The Catalan budgets, therefore, will be able to see the light before this session ends in Parliament, the deadline that socialists and republicans had set for reaching an agreement. The agreement, in fact, is the fruit of two months of negotiations and is born after the Government withdrew a first draft of the budgets after the failure of talks with Oriol Junqueras' party. Esquerra demanded an agreement on the transfer of IRPF to unblock the accounts, but the State refused to address this matter. Salvador Illa had to end up withdrawing the project he had presented only with the backing of the Comuns and, in return, the republicans stopped putting the IRPF as a red line to resume negotiations.