The General State Budgets will face its first exam in Congress on Wednesday: the totality debate. The coalition government will go to the quiet appointment, with the knowledge that its usual parliamentary partners will allow you to overcome the amendments of PP, Vox, CS, Junts and other formations that want to put back the public accounts project for next year. Of course, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Monterohe will listen to how his usual allies are putting a price at their final support for the budgets from the Congress gallery.
Waiting for ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Más País, Compromís and other formations to detail each and every one of their demands, they have already been unraveling what their main requests will be:
ERC He resigned last Friday to register an amendment to the entire budgets. Of course, he warned that they are so far” to give their support to the accounts and consider that there is A “wide margin of improvement”. Through a statement, the Catalan Republicans announced that among the issues they will put on the table is the question of the Housing Law, currently blocked in Congress. The PSOE has been open to reopen negotiations with ERC.
On the other hand, they pointed to the need to include in the budgets “Structural Reforms” to change the energy model, reform regional and local financing and face the current social emergency. They also emphasized the need to execute all the investment budgeted for Catalonia.
EH Bildu has applauded that in recent weeks he has achieved with the government some “enough bases” To allow the processing of the budgets to continue, but in the aberzale training they make it clear that “all the options remain open.” That is, the Executive must still win its final ‘yes’ to the accounts next year. EH Bildu spokeswoman in Congress, Mertxe Aizpuruahe pointed out last Monday that they will emphasize the measures that “They result in the social shield”. Even so, he preferred to be cautious and not detail what his demands will be.
In this phase prior to the bulk of the budget negotiation, the PNV has already achieved two of its demands: to renew the Basque quota and achieve the government’s commitment that the powers will be transferred to the Basque Country over several nearby lines. However, the spokesman for the party in Congress, Aitor Estebanhe said they will look for “More political agreements” with the Executive in the coming months in exchange for their final support for budgets.
The leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has recognized that they are “good budgets”, but that they are “frankly improvable”. In this sense, he has detailed that they will try to negotiate with the Government the creation of a National Observatory of Eating Disorders; the implementation of a ‘Mir Judicial’; that the offer of Places for psychologists public in 2023; and start the Universal gratuity of the dining rooms of the schools public and concerted.
Last year’s budgets were also supported by several minority groups that have already put their conditions on the table to revalidate that support. Compromís claims an improvement in the financing of the province of Alicante, an increase in vicinity and metropolitan transport, as well as in culture. Teruel exists asks that the aid to labor costs for the companies of Teruel, Cuenca and Soria be taken to the “maximum limit”.