He People’s Party has decided to request information from the European Commission about the aspects that they consider incorrect in the fiscal plan delivered by the Government to the community authorities, considering that it is based solely on tax increases and delays the necessary adjustment measures until the next legislature. The MEP Dolors Montserrat has sent a battery of questions to the Commission about this economic plan that is currently being evaluated by the competent bodies.
In her message to the Commission, the MEP denounces that Sánchez’s tax plan includes “unrealistic forecastsspending skyrocketed without considering European forecasts, contempt for the criteria of Congress, communities and city councils, and also suffocates the territories that will have to pay for it over the next seven years.
This week the Government approved the fiscal plan that is mandatory to present to comply with the new rules for controlling the public deficit and debt. According to government data, deficit targets will evolve from 3% in 2024, to 2.5% in 2025, 2.1% in 2026 and 1.8% in 2027, while the debt can drop from 100% already in 2026. However, the Government of Pedro Sánchez He was unable to approve this year’s budget and it is not clear that he will be able to do so for next year due to lack of political support. The adjustment plan is based on an increase in income and does not contain any expenditure adjustment measures.
In her letter to the Commission, Montserrat considers that the Government plan has been created “from unrealistic economic estimates”, without taking into account, among other things, the negative effects of pension reform and the increase in workers’ contributions.
In fact, the plan already recognizes a slowdown in growth, from around 2% to just 1% at the end of the decade, to justify the absence of spending reduction measures. What’s more, the Government postpones the effort to reduce spending to the last four years of the period foreseen by the new European rulesthat is to say, between 2028 and 2031a period that goes beyond the current legislature, which is the most unstable in democratic history. For the popular MEP, it is “the adjustment plan of a dying Government that is going to mortgage our future when it is no longer there. “You could say that Pedro Sánchez organizes the spending party, but others will have to pay the bill.”
The letter from the PP reminds the Commission that the regulation of the European semester establishes that it is necessary for both the national Parliaments and the regional authorities to participate in the preparation of the adjustment plans while “the Government of Pedro Sánchez has neglected the requests of the Popular Group in Congress of the Deputies to debate it, nor has it been properly presented to the Autonomous Communities.
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