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Junts calls on Illa to carry out a ‘deep reshuffle’ of Catalan government

From La Vanguardia · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Junts per Catalunya has demanded a “deep reshuffle” of Salvador Illa’s Catalan government, saying it is failing to manage several crises.
  • The party criticized the handling of education strikes and the PISA testing scandal, calling for accountability and a parliamentary education debate.
  • Junts proposed an education agreement including lower class sizes, less bureaucracy, greater teacher authority and stronger protection for Catalan.

Junts per Catalunya has opened the new political season by attacking Salvador Illa’s government and demanding a “deep reshuffle” because, the party says, the executive is not working.

Speaking in Guardiola de Berguedà, Barcelona, where Junts’s parliamentary group was holding working sessions, group president Mònica Sales and spokesman Jaume Vergés focused particularly on education. They criticized the government for ending the previous school year with a strike and beginning the new one with another.

This is not bad luck, it is bad management.

· Mònica SalesThe Junts parliamentary group president criticized the Catalan government’s handling of education strikes.

Sales called that sequence “not bad luck, but bad management,” and accused Education Minister Niubó of doing nothing during the summer. She also questioned why Illa had not led the crisis from the start, saying his request for a pause in the strike came after the only pause had been August, when the president had not managed the issue.

Sales further criticized the government’s handling of the PISA testing scandal. She said Junts had repeatedly requested appearances before the Catalan Parliament and argued that the issue required the truth to be established, responsibilities to be determined and measures adopted to prevent similar negligence.

A deep reshuffle.

· Mònica SalesSales’s demand for changes to Salvador Illa’s executive.

Junts has proposed a broad education agreement with measures including smaller class sizes, less paperwork for teachers, greater authority for educators, a genuinely inclusive school system and a stronger defense of Catalan. Vergés said the party had held about 40 meetings with education-sector representatives. Sales also announced an agreement to hold a dedicated education session in Parliament around October 20.

The party is also facing the implementation of the Amnesty Law, which could allow its leader, Carles Puigdemont, to return to Catalonia. Sales said Junts would leave it to the former president to decide how and under what terms he wanted to return.

Enough of broken promises, submission and acting as the PSOE’s delegate in Catalonia.

· Mònica SalesSales accused the Catalan government of failing to stand up to Madrid.
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Originally published by La Vanguardia in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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