1 week Ago By Mireia Esteve
The government passes the exam, but reveals its parliamentary minority. The executive branch had three decrees up for validation at this week's plenary session: the one on urgent housing measures, the one on public procurement, and the one on campsites affected by flood risk. Of the three, the government has dropped one: it ended up withdrawing the regulation on campsites because it lacked parliamentary support or industry consensus.
Only the one on public procurement will pass the exam without problems, because the government struggled to close the deal. . This last regulation was especially relevant to the executive because it contained measures to expedite housing construction.
The executive branch had made a special point of it because it was one of the first measures the government had taken to address the housing emergency. Precisely for this reason, the investiture partners and also the CUP - - have seen an opportunity to raise their prices and force the executive to introduce one of the issues left pending from the last term: the regulation of seasonal and room rentals. ERC, Comuns, and the CUP will not drop the decree in exchange for setting a price cap for seasonal housing that is not for "recreational, tourism, or holiday season uses," but also for protecting social housing in areas under pressure.
These changes will have to be in place before the end of the summer, when the regulation should be processed. "The PSC government is a minority government. Today is a very clear example of how they will have to learn to do things differently, because we have had to agree on issues in extra time," noted ERC spokesperson Ester Capella.
In this way, the President of the Generalitat (Catalan regional government), Salvador Illa, defended the work of the Minister of Territory, Silvia Paneque, and renewed his confidence in her fifteen days after the Catalan parliament called for her dismissal over her management of the commuter rail network. "This is the first major agreement between all the progressive forces in the Catalan Parliament in a long time," stressed the Minister of Territory, Silvia Paneque, in her speech at the plenary session. She admitted that the regulation "does not resolve" the housing crisis, but "opens a path.
" Juntos (Together) will vote against the decree. "They are Barcelonaizing housing by implementing measures that make no sense," stated MP Salvador Vergés. The campsite decree Consensus has not been possible with the decree that had been "We will re-process it once it has been agreed upon by the sector," stated the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlón, before the start of the plenary session.
Parlón also explained that she will now create a working group to reach a consensus on the text with the sector and the parliamentary groups. However, the minister did not spare the barbs from all the parliamentary groups, such as that of Junts MP Josep Rius, who told her: "It must come from consensus at home." The decree that will have no problems being validated is the one on public procurement.
It is the regulation promoted by the Ministry of Economy that modifies, among other things, the thresholds for awarding construction contracts to the company Infraestructures.cat so that the Generalitat can directly award construction contracts with a value of up to 15 million euros instead of the current 2 million..
