New confrontation between Salvador Illa and Junts over housing decrees

New exchange of blows between Salvador Illa and Junts: the president of the Generalitat has called his 'no' to the housing decrees in Congress a "shame" and the general secretary of the independence party, Jordi Turull, has challenged a PSOE that "always deceives" to meet at the polls.

24 hours after giving an almost definitive blow to the legislature with the rejection of the Government's measures, the president and leader of the PSC has once again come out in defense of Pedro Sánchez and has done so by attacking the neoconvergents. "What tires citizens is that those who, every time there are measures in favor of increasing protection to guarantee access to housing, vote against them and then try to teach us lessons," Illa criticized in reference to the position of Carles Puigdemont's party, which he described as "shame."

"Some who ask what the 19 PSC deputies are for, the answer is that if we had had 26 the decrees would have been approved," he concluded, thus responding to Junts' usual criticisms about the "dependency" of the Catalan socialists on the PSOE.

Also today and almost at the same time, Turull has followed the same strategy and has raised the tone against the socialists, following the trail set by Puigdemont last night with a message on networks. "If Pedro Sánchez does as he has done until now, electoralism at the expense of the most vulnerable, it is easy for him to end up calling elections to move into the field of demagoguery and the field of polarization."

Instead, he has warned that if Sánchez "really does what a president of a government has the obligation to do, which is to solve people's problems, he has a proposal on the table that, in addition, can receive majority consensus."

In this sense, he added that he knows of no contacts between the socialists and the party led by Míriam Nogueras in Congress and has harshly criticized the attitude of the PSOE, who he says "always deceives", is "unpredictable" and "its project is not the people, it is the PSOE". "If they thought about the people, they would have already called us and sat down with Míriam Nogueras."