Vilalta on rubber balls: “We will not endorse what we prohibited in Catalonia ten years ago”
BARCELONA, 13 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesperson and deputy general secretary of ERC, Marta Vilalta, has announced that ERC will vote against the reform of the ‘Gag Law’ this Tuesday in commission in the Congress of Deputies, if there are no last-minute changes in the text: “It falls far short and is too unambitious.”
“We will not endorse what we prohibited in Catalonia ten years ago,” he said at a press conference this Monday, referring to the use of rubber balls as a riot control measure that maintains the proposal promoted by the Government.
He has assured that for ERC this is unjustifiable and has questioned verbatim how the communes and Podemos can justify it: “Does respect for fundamental rights prevail more in one chamber than in another?”
Vilalta has assured that this reform supposes a breach of the commitment of the Government of the PSOE and United to repeal this norm, which, in his opinion, adds to others of the “Catalan and Spanish socialists”.
Thus, he has assured that the Socialists have breached the commitment to repeal the PP’s labor reform, invest in “the infrastructures” of Catalonia and respect the Budget pact, after voting with Junts in favor of eliminating the pilot plan of the guaranteed basic income in Parliament.
Precisely -he has detailed- this Tuesday ERC will present in Congress together with BNG and Bildu a proposal for a labor reform law with measures of “protection against layoffs and the fight against precariousness”, issues that, for the Republicans, did not resolve the labor reform of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos.
Regarding Vox’s motion of no confidence on March 21 and 22, he has assured that ERC will make its “voice against fascism” heard, after failing its proposal to the rest of the groups not to participate in the debate on the initiative.
“It seems that this will not be possible and there will be those who want to participate in it. Therefore, we are going to participate. If the extreme right speaks, we will not be silent,” he added.
