ERC is left alone voting in favor of the law of the Statistical Plan of Catalonia and Junts and the CUP abstain
BARCELONA, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Catalan Parliament has rejected this Wednesday the draft law of the Statistical Plan of Catalonia 2023-2028, the first initiative that the ERC Government alone has taken to the plenary session after the departure of Junts from the Catalan Executive.
The bill has received the vote against PSC, ‘comuns’, Cs, Vox and PP, the abstention of Junts and the CUP and only the vote in favor of ERC.
The opinion of the Parliament’s Economy and Finance Commission for this law, the same one that has been voted in plenary session, was approved last week by all the groups except Vox and none have proposed amendments to the bill, which in its day Presented by the former Minister of Economy and Finance Jaume Giró.
It is the seventh statistics plan processed by the Parliament and for the first time it was going to be valid for six years -until now they were approved for four years-, with the aim of enhancing the role and official statistical quality.
It intended to turn the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat) into a node for information and scientific research, attributing to the body the design of standards in official statistical operations in Catalonia and allowing statistical bodies to access administrative and tax files.
The socialist Jordi Riba has assured that entities and social agents have transferred doubts about this plan to the socialists because they have detected “lacks in statistical data, especially in relation to the social dimension”, and has asked that these deficiencies be covered and improved , according to him.
Joan Canadell (Junts) has assured that technically her group supports the law, but that they have not voted in favor since they believe that the ERC Government alone will not apply it from a State perspective because, according to him, it does not prioritize independence: “The president has breached his investiture agreement and has deceived us, also us as deputies.”
From Vox, Andrés Bello has maintained that there are duplicities in the statistical field, something that he has attributed to the “obsession to create State structures, creating as many organizations as necessary to give the appearance that Catalonia is a State”, which has guaranteed that will never happen.
The CUP spokeswoman in Parliament, Eulàlia Reguant, has described this bill as not very ambitious and for this reason her group has abstained, and has denied that it is a technical law, because “there is no law that is technical, there is political intentions behind”.
Joan García (Cs) has affirmed that the law has shortcomings, because he considers that there will be a lack of data from the social, business and economic fields, and has also explained that Cs will vote against these shortcomings and not like other groups that “have said they would vote depending on the context”, referring to Junts.
From the ‘comuns’, Joan Carles Gallego has maintained that nobody questions that the statistical plan for Catalonia must be updated, but he has warned that the political situation with the Government alone influences the debate and his vote: “33 is not 80”, he warned, referring to the ERC deputies and the allusion of the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, to the 80% consensus.
For his part, the Republican Lluís Salvadó has assured that the vote on this law “bordes on surrealism”, in a veiled reference to Junts, and has highlighted that this project has an impeccable text, in his opinion, since it has not had no amendments from the parliamentary groups.
