A project imposed by the PSC and Illa that puts budgets at stake
The spokesman for Catalunya En Comú, Joan Mena, has demanded that the republicans renounce the master urban plan (PDU) of the Hard Rock macrocasino, which he considers an “error” that “imposes the PSC and Illa”. Mena has conditioned the common people’s support for the Generalitat’s budgets on ERC’s undertaking “not to process the PDU and, therefore, to discard it”.
Mena has criticized that ERC threatens not to support the State’s budget if the commons do not approve the Catalans. “It makes no sense that a party that defends Catalonia’s sovereignty wants Catalonia’s budgets to be decided in Madrid,” said the spokesman.
Mena has questioned the Government’s willingness to drop budgets for a project that “not even they defend”. “Will ERC put the budgets at risk for a project that it acknowledges in public and in private that it is not its model and that it does not like?”, the spokesperson said.
A political and not a technical decision
The commons have asked the ERC to “stop playing games” with the PSC and Salvador Illa, whom they accuse of “setting the political agenda”. Mena recalled that President Aragonès himself admitted that this is a political decision, referring to his statements at the control session last week. For this reason, he has urged those of Pere Aragonès to “stop being a government subordinate to what Mr. Illa is asking for”.
Mena has argued two reasons why the Hard Rock is a red line for the commons. On the one hand, the emergency context due to the drought, and on the other, the irreversibility of this project once the PDU has been approved.
A “great country step” with the amnesty
In the same press conference to review current news, Mena positively assessed the approval of the amnesty next Thursday as “a great step by the country to end judicialization”. The commons have highlighted that now a “new stage is opening in Spain and in Catalonia where dialogue and politics will play a key role that will allow us to work on a new future between Catalonia and Spain”.
Asked whether a referendum agreed with the State could now be proposed, Mena said that it is time for “everyone to put their views on the table”.
