Editorial: La Vanguardia

• The president of Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, decided to move forward to May the elections originally scheduled for February 2025.
• This decision is influenced by the refusal of En Comú Podem to support the budget without discarding the Hard Rock project in Tarragona, and ERC's electoral calculations.
• The consequences are both economic, affecting the accounts of all Catalan and Spanish citizens, and political, affecting the cohesion of the majority of investiture.
• Even more concerning is the fact that the 2025 budget will be developed in an austerity context, given EU fiscal adjustments.

Conclusion: These political games show how decisions from smaller parties can disrupt plans of larger ones and change the promise of stability into uncertainty.

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