Eleven months after elections, the tensions in the Consell are going to relax, Andalusia has shown that stability and moderation are values that are on the rise and no one is interested in new frictions
The negotiation of budgets has traditionally been the most complicated moment of each year for the parties that make up Botànic, PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem.
The most notorious fights within the tripartite have revolved around the accounts. Those of the last two years have been especially rough. In the last edition, a political commission, made up of officials from the three parties, assumed the main role of the negotiation, ignoring even the Ministry of Finance. The tug-of-war caused the accounts to be presented after the deadline for a few days in the Corts for the first time.
The negotiation of the budgets of the Botànic has left bloody images that already showed long before the outcome of this week with the departure of Mónica Oltra from the Consell the erosion of the relationship between the president and the vice president or between the also leader of Compromís and the Conselleria of Treasury.
Prints like that of the head of the Treasury and the vice president shouting in the courtyard of the Palau, recently landed ministers on the verge of resignation because an important item that was budgeted was flown to another ministry, they have been part of the tug-of-war. Many ropes broke from so much stretching, although they always ended up putting on a good face in bad weather. As if nothing had happened.
But this time everything seems different. The negotiation of the last budget that remains for the Consell del Botànic to round the figure of eight consecutive approved in two legislatures is just around the corner. They will be the first for the new councilor for the area, Arcadi Spain. As soon as the holiday months are over and the general policy debate at the end of Septemberthe budgets will return to the present until the end of the year when they are definitively approved, as usual, on the Christmas dates.
Eleven months after the regional elections, the internal tensions within the Consell are going to relax. Nobody is interested in generating friction with so little time before the appointment with the polls. Andalusia has shown that stability and moderation are values that trade on the rise. And calm leadership without fanfare generate much more sympathy in the electorate.
In Compromís they admit that relations between the government parties, especially with the PSPV, are going to relax in the new post-Oltra stage and that the fights for a few million euros in the budgets for one ministry or another are no longer going to take place . The new vice president, Aitana Masenters to direct, for example, a ministry such as that of Equality and Inclusive Policies which has a budget of two billion for the whole year when the elections are in May, that is to say that it already has a very important capital, which is true that Oltra has increased for years due to its negotiating capacity, a budget that has managed to guarantee rights to people who were not previously they had them.
But it is not an unknown in the world of budgets. As Treasury spokesperson for the Compromís parliamentary group, she has participated in numerous budget negotiations in the Corts.
The management of the pandemic has strengthened governments of all stripes. No executive, regardless of political color, who has called or advanced elections since 2019 has lost them: Galicia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Madrid or Castilla y León have the same political color as before the pandemic. In a few months it will be up to the Valencian Community.
In addition, the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has assured this Thursday that Aitana Mas will be able to contribute “a new illusion and a positive impact from the youth” as vice president spokesperson and minister of Equality after the resignation of Oltra.