Junts demands the Catalan economic agreement and rejects the CPFF’s "coffee for everyone" approach

Junts will maintain the total amendment and will demand a Catalan economic agreement. Josep Maria Cruset announced this from Tarragona, where he described the proposal of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council as “coffee for everyone.”

The decision opens a political battle that must pass through the Congress of Deputies. The party extends a hand to ERC, Comuns, and PSC, but warns that the model proposed for the CPFF is born without the necessary support to move forward.

Junts maintains the push for the Catalan economic agreement

What will the total amendment include?

For the reader from Tarragona, the issue is not just a dispute between acronyms: the text can set what proposal Junts defends when the new financing system reaches Congress. The party will include the implementation of a Catalan economic agreement.

Josep Maria Cruset, deputy of Junts, has stated that the party will maintain the total amendment to the proposed new financing system of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council. Their bet is clear: to reject the proposed model and replace it with a formula of their own for Catalonia.

The move does not remain a mere amendment submitted to fulfill formalities. Cruset has made a direct call to ERC, Comuns, and PSC to support the text when the proposal reaches the lower chamber.

• Junts will maintain the total amendment.
• The document will include the request for a Catalan economic agreement.
• The party asks for the support of ERC, Comuns, and PSC.
• The proposal will have to pass the procedure in the Congress of Deputies.

The ball, therefore, is no longer only in the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council. It also lies on the shoulders of the Catalan groups who will have to decide whether they share this path or opt to negotiate over the proposal presented.

Why is Tarragona the scene of the message?

Cruset made the statements in a media briefing from Tarragona. The city is the point from which Junts has wanted to take a stance on a state financing proposal and make the demand for the agreement the centerpiece of their message.

This gives a territorial dimension to a debate that often gets stuck in acronyms, bodies, and documents difficult to decipher. The deputy spoke from the district, but his request is addressed to a future vote in Congress.

The formula is well known in politics: local stage, conflict of Catalan dimension, and eyes set on Madrid. This time, however, Junts has not presented the debate as a simple negotiation over the existing system, but as a choice between models.

The CPFF model, accused of being “coffee for everyone”

What exactly does Josep Maria Cruset criticize?

For the Catalan reader, the most relevant political data is the timeframe proposed: according to Cruset, the model would apply over the next twenty years. The deputy considers this horizon “clearly insufficient” for the economic needs of current Catalonia.

Junts’ criticism has two fronts. On one hand, it questions the content of the financing system; on the other, it doubts its capacity to respond to the needs it attributes to Catalonia.

Cruset has defined the proposal as “coffee for everyone.” The phrase summarizes the party’s political reproach: a general model for all territories would not, according to Junts, respond to Catalonia’s specific situation.

This is not a minor objection. When the same approach is to be applied over two decades, the timeframe becomes part of the conflict. Junts considers twenty years not a sufficient solution, but a response that is too long for needs the party presents as immediate.

What does it mean that the model is born without enough support?

The proposal, according to Cruset, does not have the necessary parliamentary support in the Congress of Deputies. For this reason, the deputy qualified it as a “toast to the sun”: an announced approach that would not have enough political strength to complete the procedure.

The issue matters because the CPFF proposal is not resolved by its presentation. It would still have to find the necessary votes in Congress, and Junts maintains that this support does not exist at this time.

The contradiction is the crux of the news: a new financing system is presented, but Junts’ main reproach is that it would not have enough majority to reach the end of the parliamentary process.

Put simply: there is a proposal, but there is not enough political muscle, according to Cruset’s reading. And without votes, the reform is exposed to becoming a declaration of intentions.

The political battle now passes through Congress

Which parties does Junts want to convince?

For the reader from Tarragona, the next point of interest is to know if ERC, Comuns, and PSC will accept supporting the amendment. Junts has extended a hand to them so they will endorse the text when the financing proposal reaches the Congress of Deputies.

The call includes formations with different positions on the relationship between Catalonia and the State. Cruset has not presented this support as a closed agreement, but as a possibility now opened.

The move also allows Junts to place the rest of the Catalan parties before a concrete decision: to support the petition for the economic agreement or remain aside from the total amendment.

• ERC: part of the group of parties Junts asks for support.
• Comuns: also receives the public call from the Junts deputy.
• PSC: included in the request for parliamentary support.
• Congress of Deputies: will be the chamber where the proposal must seek the necessary votes.

The procedure, therefore, could become a cohesion test among the Catalan forces. Or not. Politics has this habit of offering open doors and letting each decide whether to enter.

What is the PP’s position according to Junts?

Cruset has also commented on the absence of the Popular Party from Madrid at the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council. The deputy interprets this no-show as a sign of rejection of the proposal presented on Friday.

According to the Junts leader, the PP defends a model that “strangles Catalonia even more.” In contrast, he explained that his party claims another that “gives oxygen.”

These two expressions concentrate Junts’ political narrative: on one hand, a system the party considers harmful to Catalonia; on the other, the economic agreement as a proper way out.

The discussion is thus framed in very direct terms, with little room for institutional decoration. Junts wants to change the model and turn this amendment into the starting point of the parliamentary debate. Now it will have to see if it finds enough allies.

The CPFF proposal arrives surrounded by two difficulties according to Junts: a twenty-year application horizon which they consider insufficient and a lack of parliamentary support in Congress. The total amendment, with the Catalan economic agreement as its central claim, puts ERC, Comuns, and PSC before a concrete political decision. The debate already has a setting, terms, and conflict; now the votes are missing.

Source of the article: Ariadna Escoda / Catalan News Agency