The parliamentary forces allied with the Government, which from the first moment declared themselves in favor of facilitating an agreement to approve the General State Budgets (PGE) separate them from the tragedy unleashed by DANA because “we have always bet that get ahead“. And those who conditioned their votes on other agreements also disengage them and insist that, for the public accounts to go forward, Pedro Sanchez will have to sit down to negotiate, since the aid to the Valencian Country They do not depend on Budgets.
Executive sources assert, in conversation with Publicthat the Royal Decree-Law approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers is already assured ―these aids are not in danger-, but they defend that approving new public accounts taking into account the DANA crisis and all the damage it has caused would be favorable for the reconstruction of the affected territories.
The debate was born this morning after Sánchez’s appearance in Moncloa, where a journalist asked him if all the measures he has announced can be carried out without new Budgets: “Can this tragedy be an incentive to unblock?”
Sánchez’s response has been the following: “From the economic point of view we are talking about very important figures. In this first Royal Decree-Law we are already talking about 10.6 billion euros. There are many resources to which many others will come that we are going to have to ask for from the community institutions, others that we are going to have to disburse from our public accounts and therefore that is going to have to do to us. review the impact on the public deficit and debt and finding the most effective and agile vehicles possible within the framework of the PGE to be able to provide the most rapid response as soon as possible. effective and equitable possible”.
The leader of the Executive has stressed that “of course” new Budgets will be needed. Because if there were already reasons to approve them before DANA, now the responsibility to present them “multiplies colossally“. “We are going to offer a new budgetary framework to address the realities” of the territories affected by DANA. “I hope that we can have the majority support of the House to be able to approve Budgets that are even more necessary than yesterday,” he concluded.
The statements have provoked the anger of the People’s Party (PP), who sent a message to the media in the afternoon in which they accuse Sánchez of “blackmail“. “It is a matter serious and urgent enough to subject it to the usual interested maneuvers of Sanchez. We could go that far. We are not going to approve Sánchez’s PGE that he has not even presented. And even less using the victims in blackmail for their interest. Aid for those affected can be approved outside the budget debate“, have highlighted the popular.
It is a reaction that has nothing to do with that of Sánchez’s allies, although they do not consider that public accounts should be linked to DANA either. In general terms, they understand and agree that the new Budgets take into account the disastrous situation in which Valencia is located, but the parties in the investiture bloc most critical of the Government warn that Sánchez will have to comply with the prior agreements so that the negotiation for the Budgets is successful.
Republican Left (ERC) assures this medium that “the Budgets must also contemplate other issues that are pending and that this Government can’t let go. You will already agree in advance with ERC about compliance with these issues, especially in matters of financingit will depend on the viability of the PGE that they propose to us”. The Republicans, in any case, emphasize their commitment to supporting the Valencian people and announce that they will send extra proposals to the Executive in the coming days.
It is a position very similar to that of Canwhich goes even further. “We think,” they say, “that it is clumsy on the part of the Government to condition aid to Valencians on the approval of PGE for which they still do not have support.” In relation to the proposals that were transmitted, this Monday, to Bolaños They insist that the Executive “bring as soon as possible that strong social shield“.
Other trainings such as EH Bildu, Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) or Canarian Coalitionwith whom he has also spoken Publicexplain that for them Sánchez’s words do not change anything, given that their position before the DANA tragedy was already in favor of the Budget agreement. In Together for CataloniaAs usual, they remain silent. Sources of the abertzalesHowever, they distrust that the parties that, precisely like Junts, can make it more difficult for the public accounts to go ahead, are going to change your position by the element of DANA.
The Government maintains the framework of “unity”
In its strategy of avoiding a direct confrontation with the PP in this post-DANA scenario, the PSOE has limited itself to reacting in the following way: “Given the message sent by the Popular Party to the media, we only have one thing to say : unit“.
Government sources make it clear that the Royal Decree-Law approved this Tuesday is already approved and budgetarily authorized. It is not linked to public accounts. The same sources highlight that more similar initiatives will come. But at the same time they insist that it is obvious, for anyone who knows how the PGE works, that updated public accounts for 2025 with the new scenario can also promote the reconstruction process.
Although in recent months the Government did not see a drama in continuing with the 2023 extension, the context has changed, a lot. Therefore, they influence effort for approving the Budgets must be even higher. And that is, they defend themselves in Moncloa, what Sánchez wanted to convey this Tuesday in his appearance.
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