Salvador Illa describes the 11N strike as a very significant day and maintains that it strengthens his Govern in housing policies. The disturbances in Barcelona resulted in 52 arrests.
The general strike on 11N, called due to housing access issues and the high cost of living, is considered by the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, to be a very significant day. This was reported by El Plural in an interview given to La hora de La 1 on RTVE, where the head of the Catalan Executive reviewed the strike.
Illa highlights that the day went by normally, except for the disturbances and violence against the Mossos d'Esquadra and several businesses recorded in Barcelona after the afternoon demonstration. He attributes these to anti-system groups with anarchist ideology, who, according to him, infiltrate protests to commit crimes. The toll from these episodes is 52 arrests and 36 injured officers.
Regarding participation, the president believes the strike had broad support and reminds that it is a constitutional right. According to the Govern, the agreed minimum services functioned correctly in general.
“The organising groups have every right to exercise it and they did so”
Illa also comments on the royal decree-laws on housing that the Permanent Deputation of the Congress of Deputies voted on this Thursday. The text containing the main measures was approved, while the indefinite rental extension fell through. Both had been rejected in October, which led to the early elections, and were reinstated after the new validation by the Council of Ministers.
For the president, these initiatives represent an important step for housing in Spain. He also argues that they provide more regulatory tools for the autonomous communities, which hold most of the competencies, and assures that the Govern exercises them with full responsibility, applying the housing law and price control.
The Bilateral Generalitat-State Commission, which is taking place this Thursday from 12.00 hours, includes among its matters the signing of an agreement for Catalonia to participate in airport governance. According to Illa, it would be an agreement on the same terms as the one signed with the Basque Country, with a voice in decisions regarding the Catalan airports owned by Aena.
The meeting will also address the orbital railway line and the maintenance agreement for the works on the AP-7. Another possible issue is the transfer of the R1 de Rodalies, which runs from Maçanet-Massanes to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and travels along the Maresme coastline, the first commuter line transferred to the Govern as agreed with ERC. For those who use it daily, the transfer is the closest point to their everyday life.
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