The renewal of the financing model has returned to the forefront following the approval of the Generalitat’s budgets. The PSC and Esquerra Republicana place this issue as the next milestone and pressure Junts to support the legal reforms required by the model agreed upon by socialists and republicans earlier this year under the premise that it will provide more than 4 billion euros additional to the coffers of the Catalan administration. The post-convergence members, however, see it as insufficient and have opposed it from the start. But for now, they try to deflect and hide their cards because despite that opposition, they could facilitate its processing. “It is a rather lamentable act of cynicism that we are asked to support the financing model,” said Josep Rius, spokesperson and vice president of JxCat, on Monday regarding that pressure. “Their goal is not for us to give support, but to hold us responsible for its failure,” he added.

The Council of Ministers has admitted that the CNI spied on the phone of former CUP deputy David Fernández for almost half a year, which the secret services had not acknowledged until now. They have also admitted that the phone of former parliamentarian of the formation Carles Riera was intercepted for another two years, with authorization from the Supreme Court.