The Spanish media law has hung by a thread until the last moment and in the end will be saved by the People's Party (PP), who will abstain, as confirmed by party sources. This will allow the passing of a law that the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and Republican Left of Catalonia had agreed and was, in fact, a bargaining chip for ERC's support for the budget. But the left-wing bloc in Parliament has reconsidered its support for the regulation in the last hours due to the amendment that the Socialists introduced at the last minute: the change made last week by a committee changed the definition of independent producer. In the last few hours, pressure from ERC, EH Bildu and also from Unidas Podemos on PSOE to rectify has been increasing, but they have not withdrawn the amendment. ERC have debated in the last few hours between abstaining and voting against the bill, and have ended up opting for opposing it, as has EH Bildu.

The Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) have finally reached an agreement over the new Spanish media law, which also includes ERC's support for the budget budget. "ERC protects Catalan in the media law and facilitates the approval of the state budget to give impetus to the negotiation process," ERC reported in a brief statement.

Republican Left of Catalonia ERC has exactly one week to decide if it presents an amendment to the the State budget and positions with the PSOE continue for now to be very distant, the republicans insist. Some of the conditions they set – at least publicly – to give the budget the green light are various and rather vague, such as progress in the dialogue table or guarantees that investments foreseen in Catalonia will be carried out. There are others, however, that are clearer. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, insisted this Friday on one of them: including the "protection" of Catalan in the new Spanish audiovisual media law, a demand that is not guaranteed in the draft that Moncloa is working on. Despite making it clear that these are not "directly linked" issues, the president has demanded a "favourable agreement" in this sense to be able to "face" the debate on the budget. "It is important that this issue is unlocked before the processing of budgets," he said.