ERC
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Quiz coverage
52/60 · 87%
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Documented proposals
Seasonal rentals
Sara Bailac calls in the Senate for regulation of seasonal, room and coliving rentals to stop avoidance of residential law. Supports this regulation; this is not a 29N manifesto.
Source and assessmentFirst home
Estrems explicitly proposes 4% VAT on a first home bought to live in, distinguishing it from speculative investment. This September statement is later than the vote on a different tax proposal in February.
Source and assessmentWorking week
Salvador explicitly supports the 37.5-hour reform and explains SME assistance and adaptation negotiated by ERC. Support is established by his speech, not the vote alone.
Source and assessmentPensions
ERC supports the agreement to index pensions to CPI, contrasts it with the previous 0.25% rule and says it must not be broken again. This supports the rule as well as the 2026 increase.
Source and assessmentMass legalisation of migrants
Salvador supports extraordinary regularisation and describes Catalan learning as a way to establish integration, not a mandatory requirement. Original supplied manually with the displayed date of 22 April 2026.
Source and assessmentPublic healthcare
ERC’s national parliamentary intervention on healthcare management (2017; historical reference). Eritja calls for national healthcare to move towards public management. He explains ending contracts with for-profit private centres as they expire when a public centre can take over, rather than immediately cancelling all providers.
Source and assessmentLow-emission zones
Gaseni defends low-emission zones as necessary, seeking public transport and accessible support for lower-income households.
Source and assessmentRent prices
Estrems supports intervention through rent regulation and public housing.
Source and assessmentSuspending evictions
Salvador defends the temporary safety net for families unable to pay rent.
Source and assessmentIllegal squatting
Their joint Senate group submits amendment 3 to remove unlawful entry and usurpation from fast criminal proceedings. This postdates the initial favourable vote, which is not treated as the final position.
Source and assessmentBuilding new homes
ERC’s 2024 Catalonia election manifesto, urban-planning measure 8 (territorial and historical evidence). ERC’s Catalonia manifesto proposes simpler, faster urban-planning procedures, especially in municipalities with little development activity, within its housing policy. It retains building inspections and environmental protection rather than removing construction checks.
Source and assessmentAutomatic lease renewal
Supports stable renewal while rent is paid, with landlord exceptions under decree 27/2026. The decree was repealed on 2 October.
Source and assessmentHousing purchases by investment funds
Estrems supports restricting corporate housing purchases to prevent speculative investment from competing with home seekers, distinguishing homes bought to live in from buildings purchased for resale.
Source and assessmentDeporting convicted foreign offenders
Joan Tardà’s amendments explicitly submitted for ERC, numbers 334–338 (2014; historical evidence). Tardà proposes removing expulsion after an almost-completed prison term as an additional punishment and limiting re-entry bans. His proposal narrows post-conviction expulsion cases rather than expanding them; it retains expulsion instead of imprisonment and does not prohibit all judicial removal.
Source and assessmentSeeking asylum at the border
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes ending the special Ceuta and Melilla return regime because of missing safeguards and ensuring individual access to asylum.
Source and assessmentSharing responsibility for migrant children
Salvador explicitly supports the decree requiring distribution between regions, prioritising children’s rights regardless of their origin.
Source and assessmentRepeated petty theft
Vallugera criticises the harsher-sentencing approach to repeated theft and proposes more judges and staff and enforcement of existing law. The assessment rests on her substantive criticism, rather than the party’s abstention on the bill.
Source and assessmentSpecial courts for politicians
Own Senate intervention from 2020 (historical reference). Castel calls for abolishing special jurisdiction privileges through constitutional and statutory changes, distinguishing this from parliamentary immunity. Historical 2020 evidence.
Source and assessmentLobbyists: who influences government
Álvaro supports bringing existing Catalan lobbying regulation to the national level, while criticising the decree procedure.
Source and assessmentProtecting people who report corruption
Supports the whistleblower-protection bill establishing an independent national authority (Law 2/2023, article 42). Evidence of the substantive legislative vote; abstentions are not assigned a stance.
Source and assessmentAmnesty for the Catalan independence process
Supports adopting the 2024 amnesty to address the Catalan political conflict.
Source and assessmentIndependence referendums
Rufián presents a referendum as the next step after amnesty.
Source and assessmentCatalonia collecting its own taxes
Rufián supports full tax-collection powers and a solidarity contribution. This does not establish implementation of the agreement.
Source and assessmentCatalan and other languages in school
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports immersion and education powers in Catalan-speaking territories.
Source and assessmentTaxes on large fortunes
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports retaining and improving the large-fortunes tax to curb internal tax competition.
Source and assessmentPublic or subsidised private schools
Escandell argues that subsidised private schools should supplement public provision rather than have equal standing through demand-based planning, and supports strengthening public education.
Source and assessmentAbortion access
Organic Law 1/2023, articles 13 and 19: legislative evidence from 2023. Votes for the 2023 abortion reform, including public provision and decisions at 16 and 17 without parental consent. Evidence from the final law vote rather than a procedural vote.
Source and assessmentTrans law: changing legal sex
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports implementing and expanding the 2023 law, including legal recognition below age twelve; its proposal goes beyond the quiz’s age-16 threshold.
Source and assessmentEuthanasia
Supports lawful assistance in dying with medical safeguards and personal choice, seeking to avoid unnecessary court delays.
Source and assessmentExtending nuclear plant lifetimes
Nuclear amendment: final provision 24 of Senate text BOCG 331-2923. Votes against the specific amendment removing shutdown dates for Almaraz, Ascó I and Cofrentes. This is the separate nuclear-provision vote, rather than a vote on the mobility bill as a whole.
Source and assessmentDefence: 2% of GDP
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Opposes rising military expenditure, explicitly discusses NATO’s 2% threshold and proposes demilitarisation and disarmament.
Source and assessmentArms embargo on Israel
Rufián supports the decree’s embargo but considers it insufficient, seeking stronger measures to prevent arms reaching Israel.
Source and assessmentMinimum wage
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes raising the minimum wage to improve the incomes of lower-paid workers.
Source and assessmentSelf-employed people and small businesses
2024 Catalonia election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes simpler administrative procedures for self-employed people and small businesses.
Source and assessmentMinimum income
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports minimum-income benefits and regional management to improve protection for low-income households.
Source and assessmentFree nursery places
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes free early-childhood education places up to age three.
Source and assessmentSupport for people needing daily care
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Calls for the national government to fund 50% of dependency care.
Source and assessmentMental health
2024 Catalonia election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes stronger mental-health support through public services.
Source and assessmentStudent grants
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports grants and financial help so that low income does not prevent further study.
Source and assessmentScience and research
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports public funding for science and research.
Source and assessmentViolence against women
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports specific measures and protection against gender-based violence towards women.
Source and assessmentOnline privacy
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Proposes stronger data protection and individual rights in digital environments.
Source and assessmentEnergy and global warming
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports reducing emissions and moving towards clean energy to address climate change.
Source and assessmentFood and farming
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports public aid and funding to sustain local agricultural production.
Source and assessmentPublic transport fares
2024 Catalonia election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes public funding to reduce the cost of public transport.
Source and assessmentAid to other countries
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports public funding for development cooperation to fight poverty and inequality.
Source and assessmentLife in small towns and villages
2024 Catalonia election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes maintaining, restoring and opening schools and nurseries in rural areas.
Source and assessmentCulture and heritage
2023 general-election manifesto (historical reference). Supports public backing for culture and preserving and sharing heritage.
Source and assessmentWater and drought
2024 Catalonia election manifesto (territorial and historical evidence). Proposes investment and water-saving, efficiency or reuse measures to address scarcity and drought.
Source and assessmentIncome tax: low and middle incomes
Congress speech, 22 April 2026. Would accept adjusting the first three income-tax brackets; rejects extending that relief to every bracket.
Source and assessmentIncome tax and inflation
Separate vote on income-tax point 1. Nonbinding motion; it does not change the law. Voted against general income-tax adjustment. This vote does not establish a position on every targeted cut for lower incomes.
Source and assessmentBurqa and niqab in public spaces
Congress speech, 14 April 2026. Rejects the proposed ban and defends women’s freedom; criticism of the burqa is not treated as support for penalising its use.
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