The negotiations to move forward the General State Budget (PGE) have not begun, but the catastrophe of the DANA has changed everything and now the Government of Pedro Sánchez seeks new channels to move forward with his public accounts with greater parliamentary support. The Executive will modify the budgetary framework to link it to DANA supportwhich in his opinion should be replicated by all the Administrations concerned. In line with this, the Valencian PSOE has already announced that it will support the accounts of Carlos MazónThis is yet another gesture for the PP to take up the gauntlet and support the State Budget. However, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo reiterate their refusal to what they consider “blackmail”. of the Government of Sanchez.
The Executive has already announced that the PGE will be marked by the circumstances of the cold drop alleging that the aids will be extended for yearsTherefore, it does not make sense to channel them only through decree laws. Although this very Wednesday the first of them came into force with 10,600 million euros in direct aid for those affected by the DANA, for the Executive this is an “immediate reaction” to the emergency that, in his opinion, should not be extended for the next two or three years..
In fact, the same decree already establishes that the subsidies are to be charged to the Civil Protection appropriations of the Budget, although Treasury sources specify that all the items are susceptible to credit modificationsTherefore, it would not be necessary to approve new accounts.
In spite of this, Moncloa insists on its intention to present its preliminary draft with modifications derived from the DANA that it considers “obligatory” in order to be able to channel them without depending on the decree laws.. A draft bill that the PP refuses to support, although it does guarantee its support for decrees with aid as long as they are not linked to the Budgets for 2025.
But the Budgets of the Valencian Community for 2025 will have the support of the Valencian PSOE, led by the Minister of Science, Diana Morant. The Socialists have justified their support for the numbers of the popular Carlos Mazón claiming that they are necessary to shield the funds for affected families and municipalities.
And although they have emphasized that their vote in favor is not conditioned to the position of the PP with respect to the PGEThey insist on the message that the priority should be to help citizens and if this is reflected in budgets, politicians should support them.
However, Feijóo refuses to correspond to the Government, that is, to facilitate the approval of the General State Budget. In fact, the response of Genoa after learning that the PSOE will support Mazón’s public accounts is the same as when this Tuesday President Sánchez asked the parliamentary groups to support his Budgets of 2025 to facilitate new aid to those affected by the DANA: “We will not consent to use the victims of this misfortune to blackmail anyone”.
In this way, Feijóo’s party interprets the PSOE’s support for the Valencian PP as a “blackmail” and a “partisan story” to get their PGE. In addition, these PP sources argue that the Comunitat Valenciana could move forward its accounts without the PSOE, taking for granted the support of Vox, which left the regional government last July in protest against the immigration policy of the PP.
Regardless of what finally happens with the Valencian Budgets, from Genoa they explain that the economic policy of Feijóo “is not that of the Government” of Sánchez and even less so if the project, which has not yet been presented, includes the Catalan quota to which the Popular Party is flatly opposed. “The accounts of Sánchez are the ones that Junts likes, but we defend the general interest” of the Spaniards, they allege.
At this point, they underline the difference between supporting the public accounts that “Sanchez has agreed in Switzerland”- in relation to the negotiation with the Catalan independentism- and helping with the decrees of direct aid, such as those announced this Tuesday by the president after the Council of Ministers. This Wednesday, the secretary general of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, confirmed her party’s support for the package of 10,600 million euros to alleviate the effects of the DANA. “The royal decree law will have the support of the PP and we can approve it tomorrow, the sooner the better”. To which the popular leader added that these are “insufficient” aids and that “more royal decrees” are needed.
With this, Gamarra also responds to the President of the Government, who after putting into effect the aid of 10,600 million euros, linked the arrival of other aid to the approval of the Accounts of 2025. An idea that has been emphasized this Wednesday by the Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, who sees “logical” to include in future budgets some aid for the DANA. The PP shares the idea that the aids should be extended in the coming years, however, unlike the Government, they reject that they be included in the State Budget and demand that they be done through royal decrees of extraordinary credits, of credit extensions and of credit generations..
Also with the help of Europe. As the PP’s Deputy Secretary for International Affairs, Esteban González Pons, has revealed, the The European Commission will allow Spain to reallocate Next Generation Funds. to the recovery of Valencia after the hurricane. “New targets can be assigned and make the flow of funds, which has not been spent and is very, very much, dedicated to reconstruction,” he explained.