Carrizosa accuses ERC and PSC of making “theater” with the Catalan Budgets and believes that there is already an agreement
BARCELONA, 5 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of Ciudadanos (Cs) in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, has warned the Government of Pedro Sánchez that the independence ‘procés’ has not ended because Esquerra Republicana is a two-time coup party “that carried out a coup against the Republic in 1934 and has carried out a coup against Spanish democracy in 2017”.
In an interview with Europa Press, Carrizosa has criticized in this way that the President of the Government assured that the independence process had ended.
On the dialogue table between the central government and the Generalitat, Carrizosa has defended that the dialogue must take place within the democratic institutions and has criticized the “secret agreements that emerge when the actors who lead these tables decide behind the backs of the population”.
“Their agreements are rotten fruits of democracy that violate, that pervert the separation of powers, that urge reforms of laws as important as the Criminal Code at the request of those who have been convicted by that same Criminal Code,” he criticized.
According to him, and contrary to what the Government affirms based on the agreements reached at the dialogue table, ERC still does not accept the constitutional framework, since it continues to demand an independence referendum for Catalonia and, therefore, “does not renounce nothing to their postulates”.
He has also affirmed that the statements of the new magistrate of the Constitutional Court (TC) María Luisa Segoviano opening up to study self-determination are, in his words, a consequence of the politicization of this court: “This political concession on the part of a serious magistrate is amazing , which does not have to make innovations that do not result from the Constitution itself”.
The Catalan leader of Cs has accused the ERC and the PSC of making “theatre” with the negotiation on the Budgets of the Generalitat, after the Government assured that it had reached a first agreement with the Socialists and that the PSC denied it, and He has shown that he is convinced that they already have an agreement on the accounts.
“Due to a matter of political timing and the distribution of leadership, the PSC is denying that this pact has been closed. The agreement already exists,” he said in an interview with Europa Press in relation to the negotiation of the accounts, on which He assures that the Government has not sent them any details.
Carrizosa recalled that Cs offered to negotiate on the Budgets, something that “has not come to fruition at the will of ERC”, and added that they do not expect anything from accounts endorsed by PSC, ERC and the communes, three parties that , as he has said, caused the Catalan debt to skyrocket when they governed during the tripartite.
As he has defended, Cs would have fought for Budgets that would take care of the middle and working classes, the self-employed and SMEs: “It seems to us that we are spending money, for example, to put a satellite into orbit when we have more children than any other community studying in barracks or the longest waiting lists are not priorities proper to a Government”.
Carrizosa has maintained that it is “daring” on the part of the ERC to want to govern Catalonia with 33 deputies and has accused the Republicans of putting their dispute with Junts for hegemony in the independence movement before the problems of the Catalans while, at the same time, agreeing with the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies to obtain their support in exchange, he has defended.
“As he has that support, that is why he has not called elections. If elections have not been called, it is because it has not been convenient for Sánchez and because it has not been convenient for the PSC,” warned Carrizosa, who has reproached the PSC leader, Salvador Illa, who refused to promote a motion of no confidence when the ERC-Junts coalition broke up.
After criticizing Illa for betting on a consultation on self-government, Carrizosa has stated that the PSC leader has not renounced a consultation in Catalonia, but has “tactically hidden” this initiative, just as happened, according to him, with the pardons and reform of the Penal Code to eliminate sedition and modify embezzlement.
Thus, he has been convinced that the PSC will recover the proposal to hold a consultation, and has added: “For us, the refusal of the referendum is one more lie from Pedro Sánchez. It is all a tactical game in which the PSC always acts comparsa and crutch of the nationalist parties”.
Waiting for the primaries that will decide the Cs candidate for mayor of Barcelona, ??Carrizosa has praised the profile of the Cs spokesperson in Catalonia and deputy in Parliament, Anna Grau, the only leader who has so far announced her decision to appear after the resignation of former mayor Luz Guilarte.
“Grau is a cosmopolitan woman who has lived in New York, in Madrid, in Barcelona, ??in Girona. She is a woman with culture and with the world. She seems to me to be a candidate who fits very well with the cosmopolitan idea and with the reforms and advances” that the city needs, he highlighted.
As he explained, the final list of the candidacy for Barcelona will be made “at the proposal” of the mayor who comes out of the primaries –from February 23 to 19–: it will be up to that person to determine if any of the two councilors of Cs in Barcelona –the third, Paco Sierra, was expelled from the party– attends the municipal elections.
Asked if Cs is closer to the model of the current mayor, Ada Colau, or that of the former mayor and Junts candidate, Xavier Trias, Carrizosa has maintained that the party has its own model, which involves Barcelona recovering the “second capital” ” of Spain and have a more prominent place in the territorial policy of the Government.
The leader of Cs in Catalonia, who hopes to obtain representation in the Barcelona consistory, has warned that the fragmentation of politics may favor their chances of conditioning the municipal government and “put an end to colauism in Barcelona” even if they do not obtain a majority representation .
On the other hand, it has ruled out any alliance with Valents -which came out of the BCN pel Canvi-Cs coalition led by the former French minister Manuel Valls-, a formation that denies that it represents a regeneration project: “The furthest thing from regeneration democracy is to form a party based on defectors without paying any attention to compliance with the anti-transfuguismo laws”.
