Catalan’s President, Pere Aragonès, is threatening the coalition that kept leftist PM Pedro Sanchez in power after performing poorly in the recent national election. He told the PM that unless Spain compromises with Catalan on its desire to be the only tax collector in the region, no new legislation will pass the parliament.
Excerpt from www.catalannews.com
… Speaking in Madrid on Wednesday, Pere Aragonès said Pedro Sánchez had committed to talks on financing during the negotiations to be re-elected, when he required the support of Aragonès’ party, pro-independence Esquerra Republicana (ERC).
“He will have to comply with the investiture agreements and negotiate,” Aragonès said, emphasizing that ERC has always said that “new agreements can only be made if previous ones are fulfilled.”
Aragonès said that the negotiations with the Spanish government over funding must be bilateral, between the two executives, excluding regional governments from other Spanish Autonomous Comunities.
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