Junts assured that the president Pedro Sanchez I won’t have General budgets in February because his group will reject them and insisted that, although the government took note of its “non-compliance” by approving certain measures included in its investiture agreement, the rupture is already “irreversible”.
In an interview with the program Parliament (RNE), the secretary general of Together at Congress, Josep Maria Crusetwanted to clarify that if the latest gestures of the government towards Junts did not change the direction of the vote with the deficit pathwhich they rejected twice, will not do so either when the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Monteropresent budgets to the House in February.
As the Catalan separatist defended, when Junts decided break up relationships With the Government, the solution was no longer “now we are going to do two things” to satisfy them; Firstly because “this is not enough to change anything” and, secondly, because “the rupture is total”.
And although the Executive insists that it will present its project Budgets In February, Cruset reaffirmed that he could not approve it because his position would again rejectionwhich leaves the government with an absolute majority against.
At this stage, he stressed that they would only have lent themselves to negotiate with the government if it had respected the agreements signed during the first part of the legislature, but he regretted that, despite Junts’ “efforts”, the government had not “systematically” respected its part, which is why the parliamentary situation is now what it is. “And this is why we dare to predict that there will be no budget” he said.
“The government has done unimaginable things”
Cruset maintains that the Government “became aware” that the scenario it had tried to sell after the break, according to which it had “complied” with Junts “was not true”, and that is why the Executive, seeing how it is losing votes very importantdecided to “do things that, until now, were unimaginable,” such as seeing the president himself assume his role. “non-compliance” with those of Carles Puigdemont.
Asked why, despite the breakup, Junts negotiated with the PSOE changes in the law against Multiple recurrenceCruset clarified that they have always said that they would not support any law emanating from the government, the PSOE or Sumar, and that they would only support it in cases where they had already deals concluded.
In any case, he recalled that the Law against Multiple Recidivism does not meet these parameters because it is a law powered by Juntsso to move forward, they must speak to all groups in order to put an end to a problem that is “on the streets” Cataloniawhere “there is 600 repeat offenders who have been detained for more than 7,000 times“.
As for whether they expect more gestures from the Government in the coming weeks, the “number two” of the Junts in Congress indicated that his party does not intend to be the one that dictates to the Executive what it must do, among other things because it does not have no type of negotiation nor contact with the government.
Law against squatting and image management
Today he is aware that in recent days events have occurred which show that “it was not true that nothing had changed” and that “the government had to move“And, he added, there are still outstanding questions such as Law against squatting or the transfer of immigration powers at the Generalitat.
A “non-compliance” which, as he emphasized, depended “exclusively” on the PSOE and their ability to reach agreements in the House. However, he reiterated that Junts’ relationship with the socialists was rattan forks irreversible.
Furthermore, he went so far as to say that after the latest news regarding the Salazar affair or the resignation of the president of the Provincial Council of Lugo, Junts celebrates not having “any type of political relationship“with the PSOE or feel part of their project.
“In any case, the PSOE will know what it must do to give explanations to citizens,” said Cruset, before specifying that the Christmas holidays will not be used to restore relations with the government. “Not at all. We are a political project serious and predictable“, he settled.
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