The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezreturns this Wednesday to the control session of Congressafter two weeks without going due to international commitments and health reasons, and he does with the General State Budgets for 2023 recently approved in the Council of Ministers.
Sanchez missed the weekly appointment of control to the Government in the Congress of Deputies on September 21 for traveling to New York for the UN General Assembly, and also to the last one, on the 28th, for his positive in covid. In that session, Cuca Gamarra was going to ask him about the sacrifices he is willing to make, an ambiguous question that the PP spokeswoman will have the opportunity to ask him this Wednesday, October 5.
The question from the Ciudadanos spokesperson, Inés Arrimadas, who will ask Sánchez if he believes that his government “does everything possible to help families” has also been moved from one week to the next. And the Compromís spokesman, Joan Baldoví, will also take up his question to Sánchez to find out if the Government contemplates a transitory leveling fund in the next budgets to equalize the worst-financed autonomous communities with the average financing.
Precisely, the government control session takes place one day after the approval in the Council of Ministers of the 2023 general state budget bill, after the agreement reached between the coalition partners of the PSOE and United We Can, which now seek group support in its parliamentary process.
In addition, the Government has recently presented its tax planwhich, among other measures, plans to create a new tax for fortunes of more than three million euros and subsidize personal income tax on income of up to 21,000 euros.
Beyond the questions addressed to Sánchez, the plenary session of Congress this Wednesday will include three addressed to the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, formulated by the PP, Vox and a Navarre deputy from the mixed group, and referring to the possibility of the beginning of a recession, the increase in poverty and the impact of European funds. Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, is awaiting a question from Vox about whether she instigates unions to demonstrate against businessmen.
The Minister of Inclusion, José Luis Escrivá, will have to explain his opinion on the autonomous powers in tax matters, after supporting centralization by the State; and the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, will report on his plans to improve diplomatic relations with Algeria.
The plenary will also address the RTVE situationsince the PP deputy Macarena Montesinos will ask “why has the Government forced the resignation” of the president of the corporation, José Manuel Pérez Tornero, and Vox has raised an urgent question on this matter.
The situation at the National Intelligence Center (CNI) has given rise to two questions, one from ERC and another from Vox.
Two questions await Minister Luis Planas about the closure of 87 fishing grounds for the Spanish fishing fleet in the Northeast Atlantic, which will be asked by the PP and the BNG.
The regional financingthe future of Volkswagen in Navarra, the increase in rail services and requests to host the European Space Agency are other issues that other members of the Government will have to give an account of in oral responses on Wednesday.
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In these, María Fernández, the spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition-PNC party, will make her debut with a question about the increase in migrants by sea. electoral agreement between the two formations.
In addition, the plenary will debate three other urgent interpellationsincluding one from the PP on illegal home occupations and one from the ERC on the just transition fund for the Catalan nuclear zones.