The Illa Government plan goals to adjust to 40% of agreed legal guidelines in a single 12 months and “negotiate” financing | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The Catalan Government will approve this Monday, in its final assembly of the 12 months, the Government’s plan for this legislature, which includes selling 134 initiatives, 16 of them included within the investiture pacts signed with ERC and the commons. They are in complete 40% of the legislative bundle agreed with its companions. The authorities plan, which has a vocation and a imaginative and prescient to think about Catalonia in 10 years, contemplates “negotiating” the brand new financing system, with out additional element, and “analyzing” the proposals to, the textual content says, “implement the new powers that can be derived.” The agreement with ERC establishes that in this first year the model will be agreed upon and the Catalan tax agency will collect personal income tax in 2026. president Salvador Illa has confirmed this Friday that he will fulfill the agreements.

The document does not make any further mention of the financing model that the two Governments have to agree on and later be approved in Congress. The plan contains 117 pages and in the last of them, at the foot of the page, appears this clause or final note: “This government plan and future departmental plans incorporate all of the investiture agreements.” The Government hides behind that mention to guarantee that it will comply with the pact with Esquerra that has caused so many differences with regional presidents of the PP and some of the PSOE. Illa has said on countless occasions, also today, that he will comply with the agreements but without specifying more, something that happens while the Republicans have raised the bar to agree on the budgets, which are currently up in the air. The Republican leadership demands progress in the model and that the forgiveness of 20% of the Autonomous Liquidity Fund be made effective now.

Before an audience with hundreds of senior officials from the Administration, who have attended the First Directors’ Conference of the Generalitat, Illa has presented the main lines of the plan that aspires to recover economic leadership in Spain, lost in favor of the Community of Madrid . He president has placed emphasis on improving public services and has defined the legislature as that of “shared prosperity” but additionally as that of “public services and singular financing.” To keep away from the anger of ERC, Illa has admitted that he begins from the “reality principle” that his is a minority Government however has clarified that this doesn’t imply that it’s unstable and has assured that he’ll adjust to the agreements.

In a speech lasting almost 40 minutes, Illa reiterated this commitment. “The Parliament has given us the responsibility of governing thanks to two investiture agreements with progressive forces. The investiture agreements are incorporated into the government plan: they are all included and must be fulfilled. The Government will govern honoring those commitments, knowing that to carry out proposals and the budgets it has to sit down again and negotiate,” he said. Its objective is for Catalonia to have a solidarity approach with all of Spain. “I’ll take a tour and go explain myself. Nobody gives Catalonia lessons in immigration or in economics or financing. We will not go with the lily in our hand,” he stated.

The government plan is based on the premise that Catalonia faces new challenges with demographic changes and the aging of the population; the impact of climate change and new technologies. Under this principle of “shared prosperity”, the Government considers five priorities: improving the quality of life and access to housing; the energy transition, social equity, good government and self-government. The star measures are obtaining 50,000 social apartments – “generate”, says the document – between now and 2030; reach 50% electrical autonomy on that same date – now it is 14% – and reach 70% water autonomy with hydraulic works in 2027. The Government is also committed to another star measure in health, extending the formula if it is not necessary make an appointment to be treated at a CAP.

Among the most relevant initiatives for this first year of the legislature are, among others, the draft for local governments and local financing or the draft bill for the social and solidarity economy. The PSC and ERC agreed that in the first year of their mandate they would promote nine laws and, so far, the Government has already processed four: the Integrated Social and Health Agency law; the law of Democratic Memory – inherited from the Aragonès Executive -, the law of Rural Municipalities and the new taxation of gambling, focused on discouraging the construction of the Hard Rock casino.

In the following 12 months, Illa commits to finishing two extra: the primary stage of common early childhood schooling and the cultural rights legislation. The legislation on city leases and regulation of rental contracts stays unspecified in the meanwhile; that of homelessness and the Third Sector legislation, which have been processed within the final mandate as a non-law proposal. The Executive has additionally rescued the asbestos removing legislation. The textual content consists of two initiatives agreed with the commons: deploying the legislation on oral well being and the legislation on city enchancment of municipalities.