Yolanda Díaz assures that the agreement on the spending ceiling for the next Budgets does not include an increase in funds for Defense, to which Pedro Sánchez promised before the NATO leaders
The beginning of the political course, in which municipal, regional and general elections will be held, comes with a new row between the government partners. Nothing new, if it were not because at stake is the approval of the General State Budgets for next year, the last of this legislature and with which both PSOE and United We Can trust to turn to the social aspect to come back in the polls.
According to socialist sources, the negotiation to move the next bills forward began in early August, and although discretion is requested regarding their course, it is stated that, as has already happened in the previous two years, the talks are sailing good port. From the minority side of the Government, however, it has become clear that there is nothing agreed in terms of increasing military spending.
The increase in the budget of the Ministry of Defense is a particularly sensitive issue within the coalition, already unstable every time one or another party claims to be the essence of the left. Last June Madrid hosted a NATO conference against which United We Can supported demonstrations, while the Prime Minister gave himself an image bath before the leaders of the Western bloc. In this appointment, Sánchez, without prior notice to his coalition partners or parliamentarians, promised to raise the military budget to 2% of the Gross Domestic Product that the alliance demands.
This Monday, however, Yolanda Díaz, has responded in the opposite way to a question that has been asked on the Ser chain. «In the debt ceiling that we have negotiated in the summer, of course, the increase in defense spending was not» , has settled the second vice president and future candidate for Moncloa by the leftist coalition that she is trying to put together together with Podemos, Izquierda Unida or Más País. At stake are the last budgets of the coalition for which, in addition to bridging their differences, they will have to convince investiture partners such as Esquerra, PNV or EH Bildu.
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