The PSC rejects an electoral 'super Sunday'

BarcelonaNo to the 'super Sunday of elections'. The PSC completely rules out this idea, which has begun to circulate as a hypothesis given the deadlock in Parliament and also in the Congress of Deputies. It consists of holding, for the first time in history, state elections simultaneously with Catalan ones and even adding the Andalusian ones, although in this last case it is the PP and not the PSOE that controls the calendar. Since the Government approved the budgets, ministers and socialist leaders have repeatedly stated that the only scenario they contemplate is the approval of the accounts.

This Monday, the number 2 of the PSC and spokesperson, Lluïsa Moret, also rejected the idea of calling people to the polls in Catalonia and Spain at the same time, in an electoral 'super Sunday'. "The PSC does not contemplate this scenario", she stressed in an interview on TV3.

In any case, and ten days before the amendments to the whole are voted on in Parliament, how are the negotiations with ERC progressing? According to Moret, the difference at the moment lies in the "timescales" and "processes": the republicans demand a guarantee that the Spanish government will support the parliamentary proceedings so that Catalonia can collect the IRPF, but the Treasury continues to refuse. The PSC insists, however, that from Madrid "no one has ruled out" agreeing to these changes. The Catalan socialists emphasize that the PSOE also committed to these changes when its federal committee endorsed the agreement to invest Salvador Illa with the republicans.

From the Government, they are also trying to seek a change of stance at the republican headquarters on Calàbria street. "ERC will have to move on the budgets, the commitment to the IRPF is evident and sincere", insisted the Minister of Economy and Finance, Alícia Romero, in an interview with El Periódico. As Illa also did, Romero appealed to the republicans' responsibility to channel, through the accounts, a response to the "global political crisis" by offering stability.

The minister did not wish to comment on what the Spanish government should do to unblock the negotiation with ERC. In any case, she ruled out the possibility that the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy, where the Treasury will present the legal landing of the new financing model, will serve for the PSOE to ratify the commitment to the IPRF. "We want a bilateral relationship with the [Spanish] government. What we will not do is have an agreement between the government and the Generalitat go through a multilateral body", she concluded.