“There are many here [diputados] That they come little or that they do not come, ”says deputy Dani Cornellà (CUP) during the Plenary of the Parliament of Catalonia. He does not mention it openly, but his words are addressed to Aliança Catalan (AC), who has also received criticisms the day before from ERC:“ Some are in the Parliament to collect. In fact, Aliança never comes to commissions, ”reported Republican Jordi Albert.
The criticism of Aliança for his parliamentary action begin to repeat themselves publicly among the political parties. According to data collected by the country through the public minutes of the Parliament, between October 2024 and this April. The calculation is based on the skillful period of Orriols (from the beginning of the legislature) and that of Rosa Maria Soberan (deputy since October, when she replaced Ramon Abad in the seat) as in the commissions. The figures contrast with the criticism that Orriols did a few weeks ago in the Parliament, when he questioned whether an arc of up to 135 deputies was necessary and assured that many parliamentarians “have not been heard their voice” and that others “enter running when there is a vote.” “This is the parliament or Ali Babá and the 40 thieves? “He asked about the indignation of the plenary.
According to the same minutes, Aliança has not yet attended five commissions throughout the legislature: equality and feminisms; Sports; Justice and democratic quality; European Union and External Action; and ecological transition. Nor is it usual in the Interior, where he has come in 3 of the 9 sessions held until April despite adding issues such as insecurity, one of the friendly of his ideology. “Taking into account the messages that Aliança Catalan disseminates through their networks in security and justice issues, it is surprising that they almost never attend the commission where these issues are worked,” says Andrés García Berrio (Comuns), spokesman for his group in this commission. “They are not interested in the background problems and the solutions that are worked daily. They want to generate noise in networks and now.”
The case of Orriols, absolute formation of the formation is even more striking: it has attended only in 2 of the 62 legislative commissions of which it is part in the same period. “And we are only two deputies. We cannot reach everything,” Orriols herself justifies to El País to explain this baggage.
The defense of the leader of Aliança does not satisfy Cornellà, who resigned in 2021 to the Mayor’s Office of Celrà (Girona) to devote himself exclusively to parliamentary tasks. “The two things cannot be done at the same time if they want to do well. Or Mayor’s Office or Parliament, but not everything at once, and more if it is the capital of a region,” replies the antisystem. Aliança Catalan changed its statutes in 2024, which initially prevented several positions at the same time so that Orriols could have a presence in the Ripoll and Parliament consumption.
Aliança also points out that many commissions overlap at the same time and that this makes it impossible to attend the sessions. “They should be in different stripes,” he asks for sovereign. The various groups consulted admit that the hourly distribution (up to three sessions at the same time) hinders the organization to the groups with fewer deputies, but that the current presence of Aliança does not correspond equally to the expected minimum. “One thing is few, but another is not to come practically,” understands Albert (ERC). “The CUP are four and come much more,” compares. According to the minutes, the CUP participates with four deputies in 78% of the legislative commissions, compared to 19% of AC. The rest of the formations, with more human resources, exceed these figures.
“It is serious that Aliança deputies do not participate in the commissions because they do not comply with their obligations as members of the Parliament,”. “It is a lack of respect, in short, to the Catalans and the institution that represents the sovereignty of the people of Catalonia,” they emphasize.
In recent months several deputies have shown their discontent in commissions for the absence of Aliança. Cornellà informally raised in a Board of spokesmen to review the salaries to those deputies who did not attend the meetings (there are sanctions stipulated in the Regulations for the deputies who do not comply with their obligations); and several presidents of the commissions verbalize their absence to conscience to record. “We are giving us lessons and criticize us, but then they do not come to the commissions, to the presentations of law or in the plenary session in which there is no vote. They charge the same without doing the work established in the regulation,” says Cornellà. As deputy and president-ported of the Mixed Group, 57,800 euros of salary between June and December 2024 corresponded to Orriols.
Aliança rebates the accusations and feeds that Orriols is the fifth deputy with more interventions in the Parliament. The mayor of Ripoll has lamented this Thursday afternoon the change of regulation of the Parliament, endorsed by the rest of the parliamentary forces at the beginning of the legislature, which exempt the CUP from being part of the mixed group despite having only four deputies. “The parliamentary groups were aware that we had only two deputies and that we could not attend all the commissions if we were alone in the mixed group. Orriols has also defended their duality of charges.” Be careful with criticizing the duality of charges because there are more mayors of municipalities that act as deputies and add less interventions, “he said.” If anyone knows how to combine the charges, “
