The agreement will be formalized in a meeting between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Yolanda Díaz
PSOE and United We Can, the coalition government parties, have reached an agreement for the General State Budgets (PGE). This pact will be formalized this Tuesday at a meeting between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Yolanda Díaz, which will take place in the Tàpies room in Moncloa at 9 a.m., half an hour before the Council of Ministers begins.
Negotiations within the coalition They always rush to the last minute. That’s how it was in the Octobers of the last two years and this third time has been no different. Despite achieving a fiscal pact last week, PSOE and United We Can exhausted all the deadlines and it was not until early this Tuesday when they announced their agreement on public accounts for 2023. In this way, The Government’s wish will be fulfilled: the PGE will be approved in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday.
night trading
Yesterday at the last minute, the second vice-president of the Government, Yolanda Diazadmitted in the ser that there was no agreement: “I am going to negotiate without leaving the table until the last minute for the good of my country, I hope the PSOE does the same“, slipped, without clarifying how he intended to unravel the situation. However, in the end it was possible to do it during the night.
Socialists and purples were immersed in their tug of war until the last minute and the sensations in both formations were that the agreement was close. Even the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, had ventured to show, minutes before Díaz’s words in La Ser, her confidence in reaching an agreement in the next few hours, in statements to Efe.
The situation was reminiscent of previous negotiations that, with the talks stalled, ended up being resolved with a meeting in Moncloa between Sánchez and the then leader of United We Can, Pablo Iglesias. On this occasion, there will be ‘photo’ again, now with Diaz.
The bases
The State Budget project for 2023 is being built on the basis of a new macroeconomic framework that lowers the GDP growth forecast for next year from 2.7% to 2.1%, according to what the vice president advanced this Monday economy, Nadia Calvino.
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In addition, the 2023 accounts are falling within the spending ceiling approved by the Government and which was submitted for consideration by the Congress of Deputies on September 22. The Government has set the spending ceiling at 198,221 million euros, 1.1% more than in 2022. Without including the European resources from the ‘Next Generation’ fund, the spending ceiling amounts to 173,065 million, 1.9% more than in 2022. This spending ceiling includes the agreement to raise the salary of civil servants reached this Monday between the Government and the UGT and CCOO, which includes an increase in remuneration for 2023 of 2.5% fixed plus another variable point (up to 3.5%) depending on the evolution of prices and GDP.
In the Budget figures there will also be a transfer of 19,888 million for Social Security, which represents an increase of 8.1% compared to this year. Above this spending ceiling will be the increase in pensions in 2023 according to average inflation between November 2021 and 2022, a figure that could be around 8%. The amount of the measures against the energy crisis that the Government decides to extend or apply in 2023, such as the extension of the VAT reduction on electricity and gas beyond December 2022, is also above the spending ceiling. , although any of these decisions will be adopted later, as the Minister of Finance María Jesús Montero has been repeating.