![[VÍDEO] Salvador Illa takes over as President of the General Government of Catalonia](https://imatges.vilaweb.cat/nacional/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4df1f413-fec5-40aa-a1ca-11bc4a927658-1024x683.jpg "[VÍDEO] Salvador Illa takes over as President of the General Government of Catalonia")
10.08.2024 – 11:52
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Update: 10.08.2024 – 13:05
socialist Salvador Illa Today I acquired 133rd President of Catalonia In an event that began shortly after 12.00 at the Saló de Sant Jordi in the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya. In his inaugural speech, the new state president stressed that his main objective is to govern for everyone as much as he knows how. “I am deeply honoured to take on this responsibility, and I am excited to take it on,” he said.
Earlier, the Speaker of Parliament said. Joseph RollHe read the royal decree appointing him, and immediately after him the President of the Republic. Peter Aragones The Order of the Office was imposed on him. Finally, Illa closed the event with his first parliament as President of the General Government of Catalonia.
“I inherit a cherished legacy of aspirations, hopes and the will to govern the people of Catalonia,” began Illa, who had a memory of all the state presidents who preceded him. He especially thanked President Pere Aragonés for the transfer of his functions that he has made these days. “My main objective is to govern as I know how to treat everyone. The institution belongs to every Catalan woman, and the institution must serve every Catalan woman.” He added that “the defence of language, culture and territory is never against anyone,” claiming that the next legislature will be based on “Unite and serve”.
He did not attend this event. cupWho claimed in a tweet on Twitter to be absent, hinting that “his political and national project has nothing to do with the project of this president, representative of 155 and the right of the Socialist Party.”
We will not attend official or protocol events, and even less on a sad day for Catalonia like today. No, we did not go there because our political and national project has nothing to do with that of this president (representative number 155 and right-wing Socialist Party)
It starts… pic.twitter.com/lu45xhJfj1– Dani Cornella #independence #ecosocialism (danicornella) August 10, 2024
On Thursday, Parliament elected Ella by an absolute majority, with the votes of the members of Parliament. Public Service Commission, European Energy Research Centre and commonYesterday, Aragones received him at the State Palace to convey to him the most important pending issues left by his government. Sources from the Aragones presidency say that he spoke with Illa about the macroeconomic situation in Catalonia for the coming years and the state’s financial situation. They also discussed relations between the State General and the Spanish state institutions, the main security challenges that Catalonia will have to face, and relations with the European Union.
New government
Now that Illa has taken office, he must name his government, which for the first time in Catalonia’s history will be a single government. Executive only for PSCAlthough he came to power thanks to a political agreement with the Reform and Reform Council and the House of Commons, these two parties will not enter government in the first term, although it is not unlikely that they will do so in the future. President of the Commons, Jessica AlbaitchHe told Catalunya Radio that he did not rule it out, but wanted to wait and see what the spirit of this government was. “We are giving this government a chance with some measures that we have prioritized. If the other party does not comply, we will withdraw its support.”
At the moment, we already know some of the names that will be part of it. It is now known that the current director of the Barcelona City Council, Albert Dalmauwill be the presidential advisor. And the prioress of the Santa Coloma de Gramenet Monastery and the official spokesperson for the PSC, Noria BarlonHe will lead the Interior Ministry, as Ella announced during the campaign.
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