Illa offers himself to Aragonès to agree on measures against the drought

The chief of the opposition in Catalonia, Salvador Illa, continues along with his technique of reaching out to the Authorities of Pere Aragonès.

The chief of the opposition in Catalonia, Salvador Illa, continues along with his technique of reaching out to the Authorities of Pere Aragonès. Conscious of the parliamentary arithmetic and the meager assist that the ERC Govt has in Parliament, the primary secretary of the PSC has despatched a letter to the president wherein he affords to agree on one of many points that the majority concern the socialist, the drought that plagues Catalonia. On this approach, the socialist needs to proceed conditioning the Authorities's motion on this matter, after agreeing on the Generalitat's funds for this 12 months.

Within the letter, Illa addresses Aragonès to alert him that the drought downside in Catalonia "is critical and worrying" and requires a "collaboration coverage" between the Generalitat, metropolis councils, provide firms and residents, one thing that in his opinion the Authorities will not be finishing up. The Socialists put as proof of this lack of collaboration the decree authorised on the finish of February by the Consell Executiu, which extends the water restrictions to 6 million residents of 224 municipalities in 15 totally different areas.

The decree imposes restrictions on water for agricultural, industrial, leisure makes use of and the prohibition of irrigation of inexperienced areas, each private and non-private, and imposes sanctions of as much as 150,000 euros on non-compliant municipalities. This chapter is what the Socialists criticize essentially the most, who contemplate that we face "a sanctions decree, as an alternative of an funding decree."

As well as, Illa criticizes within the letter to the president that, given Aragonès' latest announcement to convene a summit of events to take care of the emergency, "it might have been higher to convene this summit earlier than the Authorities authorised the decree legislation", particularly "taking bearing in mind the parliamentary assist that the Catalan Govt has," conclude socialist sources.

The validation of this decree will probably be taken to the following plenary session of the Catalan Chamber, scheduled for subsequent week, the place ERC ought to search assist if it needs to maneuver it ahead. It stays to be seen when the summit promised by Aragonès will probably be known as, which in any case won't happen this week as a result of the president remains to be touring by way of Latin America and won't return to Catalonia till the start of subsequent week.

Illa additionally calls for that Aragonès "diligence within the execution" of the investments in water issues that have been agreed with the PSC within the framework of this 12 months's budgets. Investments that, based on the socialists, symbolize 760 million euros. On this sense, the opposition chief justifies his demand for "cautious monitoring" of such executions "given the background of an inexplicable low execution, of 20.79%, of the investments of the Catalan Water Company through the monetary 12 months 2022 funds", he reproaches.

Not the whole lot is criticized by Illa, who takes benefit of the letter to ship the president a few of the work and proposals that the PSC has made on this legislature relating to water. Thus, the chief attaches 5 paperwork with proposals to combat towards the drought, the modernization of irrigation, and the implementation of renewable power for irrigation communities and incentives to save lots of water.

Like Illa, the socialist deputy accountable for the ecological transition space of ​​the parliamentary group, Silvia Paneque, has despatched a letter to the Minister of Local weather Motion, Meals and Rural Agenda, Teresa Jordà, in the identical sense.