Investiture partners advise Sánchez that his final support for the budgets is not assured

The General State Budgets of 2022 have overcome their first parliamentary obstacle this Thursday with the rejection of the vetoes presented by opposition groups and are now facing the process of partial amendments with the challenge of strengthening the support they have added so far.

The public accounts of the Executive had received seven amendments to the totality – presented by PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, JxCAT, CUP, Foro Asturias and Coalición Canaria – which have been rejected with 188 votes against, compared to 156 in favor.

The groups that have facilitated the processing of the accounts – the same ones that supported the 2021 budgets, to which the BNG has joined this year – have warned throughout the two days of debate that allowing the processing of the text does not presuppose your support in the final vote.

The deputy of the PNV Idoia Sagastizábal has warned that “there is still a long way to go to agree on the budgets” for 2022 with his party, although he has stressed that his predisposition “will be full”.

“We believe that budgets have room for improvement“Sagastizábal said after announcing his group’s rejection of the total budget amendments in the vote in Congress, and therefore he will present partial amendments to the text.

The deputy has focused on the “Basque agenda” and “new transformative investments”, since she has considered that investments in the Basque Autonomous Community are “relegated” in the current text, especially in railway or airport infrastructures.

Sagastizábal has recognized that the economic forecasts of the Government of Spain are subject to risks such as inflation or supply problems, although he has urged “to flee from catastrophic forecasts” and to remember that “the economy is growing.”

He has also called for planning a correction of the public deficit and a “serious debate” on taxation, since although “a tax cut is clearly unfeasible,” it is not the time to lower them either.

For his part, the spokesperson for EH Collect Oskar Matute He has also indicated that “the Government must win our votes” with a good agreement on economic and social matters “that improves the lives of the Basques”, because rejection of vetoes is not a “blank check”.

EH Bildu faces this responsibility in the processing “more with a sense of class than with a sense of State, which we lack,” Matute said, in the face of the attempt to “perpetuate the inequality model” of the right-wing formations.

“You cannot move towards a more just society with such high rates of people living in poverty,” he stressed, something that joins an “unsustainable” rate of youth unemployment and has urged to stop.

“We will not accept cuts or tougher pensions“, he added, while urging repeal all harmful aspects of the labor reform of 2012, and has warned him that, if he opts for a mere partial reform of the same, he will not only lose the support of the left groups that support him, but also the elections, and he will be “solely responsible for governing the right”.

Meanwhile, the spokesperson for ERC in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has warned the Government of Spain this Thursday, especially the socialist party led by Pedro Sánchez, that the 13 votes of his formation are essential not only for the approval of the 2022 accounts but also for the Executive to exhaust the legislature . “And I do not know if they have more gasoline in the engines for so much travel,” he assured.

Rufián has made it clear during the budget debate that his group has not presented a full amendment although he was about to do so and that will demand the fulfillment of all their conditions to approve the accounts in their final process.

The pro-independence deputy has warned the Government that, although the PSOE is experiencing an “alpha moment” after its last Federal Congress, the truth is that the Executive “is beginning to have a lot of people too pissed off.” For this reason, he has recommended that they “calculate well their forces” and the gasoline they have in order not to have to advance elections.

In this context, he has warned that government cannot be counted solely on the “fear” generated by the alternative of the right and the extreme right. “That fear is not what should make us accept everything that they pose to us, that fear should be what makes you agree to everything with us,” he explained.

From the Government, the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has shown its willingness to dialogue, being aware that it does not have “a blank check” from the rest of the parties, but must “sweat the shirt” to get their support, something that it hopes to do in the coming weeks.