For the Government, the PP’s accusations of “blackmail” are “out of place”. because it is “logical” that the General State Budget (PGE) for 2025 will be marked by the “tragic” circumstances of the DANA. This has been expressed by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torreswho predicted that the same thing will happen in the case of the autonomous and municipal accounts of the affected areas. “I believe that statements such as ‘blackmail’ should be eliminated because they are out of place (…). there will be time for the parliamentary debate“, said the minister in an interview on Antena3.
The PP advanced yesterday that it would not give its support to the Government’s Budgets and charged against what it considers a “blackmail” of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who this Tuesday asked for the majority support of the groups to take them forward by considering that now, after the DANA, they are “even more necessary”. The Popular Party has assured that they will support all measures aimed at helping those affected. as long as they are outside the budget debate.
Torres, who recalled that this same Wednesday the decree law with aid amounting to 10,600 million He has charged against the Popular Party for these accusations. He has said that he does not understand the position of the Popular Party, since the Government has just given the green light to the aforementioned decree law. “The opposition has a lot to say and show“, said Torres, before returning to ask for “responsibility” and support for those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “Let’s put aside our differences and walk hand in hand, because this is not going to be easy. Let’s be up to the task,” he added.
However, he assured that the Executive will approve a preliminary draft of the Budget with “modifications forced” by the DANA. “The Government’s obligation is to build mechanisms to multiply by four times the DANA aid, to help us have tax exemptions, ICO funds and recover the constitutional right to housing and do it as soon as possible,” he said.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has also pronounced himself in the same line, who has raised the tone against the PP, to whom has accused the PP of “unforgivable cynicism”.. “These are not the times to use those concepts and those terms. We are facing the greatest emergency, the greatest tragedy that this country has ever suffered,” he said in an interview on Telecinco, where he emphasized that an economic investment is “necessary and unfailing”. important to undertake the reconstruction and relaunching of the economy in the Valencian Community.