He plenary session of the Cortes of Castilla y León It started yesterday, like last Wednesday, with a focus on the communities that suffered the effects of DANA, in particular Valencia, but also Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha, Murcia and Aragon. All the parliamentary groups came together to show their solidarity and support to those affected by this tragedy and they did so around an institutional declaration by which the Autonomous Parliament “puts itself at the disposal of the administrations and all municipalities affected for any necessary collaboration. Aid that continues throughout the Community in the form of collection of products, donations and transfers of troops from Castilla y León who, equipped with the appropriate equipment, collaborate in the cleaning of the affected areas.
In the hemicycle, already included on the agenda of the session, the various spokespersons also began their interventions by showing their solidarity with the affected regions, even if each put their personal touch in their own interpretation of the tragedy and, above all, the response provided. by administrations. The leader of the Socialist Group, Luis Tudanca, linked what happened to the reflection that “it is the public who helps and repairs”, then adding that “unity helps” and continuing by saying “I continue to believe in good politics, of course.” agreements and the general interest, that of generosity and that which only thinks of the citizens. Everything to put an end to the great mystery of recent weeks: “We will abstain without any conditions to facilitate the capping of expenses and with this the processing of budgets can begin.
The socialist leader justified his announcement by saying that “I believe that this is the best we can offer to the citizens of this country” and then asked the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, to “bring the budgets to the Cortes so that » We can talk about housing, education, health, social and economic policies. » “The PSOE demonstrates, once again, that it is up to the task. Now we have to prove it,” he concluded.
Mañueco was neither surprised nor particularly happy with the socialists’ announcement that, with their abstention in today’s plenary session, they will allow the accounts to move forward, to cease being a draft, to become a project (once approved by the Government Council). . and enter the Cortes for processing. A new chapter will then open, that of the search for allies to obtain the yes of the majority of the Chamber given that the votes of the PP are insufficient. So start again because only the yes or the abstention of the PSOE or Vox can make it possible and those of Abascal, who today will vote no to the spending ceiling, are not for work. “It is not appropriate to want to take political and partisan advantage from a situation like the one we are experiencing. We must think about the future of the inhabitants of Castilla y León, in the area of health, education and social services”, were the first words of Mañueco after the socialist announcement. He then emphasized that if the spending cap “is supported, thank whoever facilitates it and then negotiate with the groups”, thus signaling his intention to seek support before the Governing Council approves the accounts and they come into force in all. case, he has expressed his desire to move forward and, to do so, “I would like to have the support of his group and of all groups”, he told Tudanca.
He mentioned the same subject the lawyer of the Mixed Group, Francisco Igea, the first to announce his yes to the expenditure ceiling, who took the opportunity to look back on the past and ask Mañueco if “this year he will be able to agree on the budget with the representative of Por Ávila”, thus recalling his negotiations with this group when he was vice-president President of the Board of Directors were, precisely, one of the arguments used to break the PP-C government. A wording that did not please the President of the Council at all, who complained about the “component of personal relief”, and therefore asked Igea to “turn the page and overcome the trauma” and insisted on address all groups. But the lawyer of the Mixed Group expressed doubts about Mañueco’s intention to submit the 2025 accounts to the Cortes, He therefore called on him to do so, to negotiate and above all to “stop deceiving citizens by making them believe that they have a majority that they do not have”.
The spending ceiling returned to the House but, curiously, it was accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Gonzalo Santonja, with his response to Vox’s lawyer, Miguel Suárez, when he complained to those of ‘Abascal, the party with which he came to the Autonomous Government, to vote in favor to allow their department to have an additional four million euros to allocate to heritage. He did so after having defended that “we have absolutely nothing to do with the cancel culture and that I am not serving anyone” after hearing Vox’s lawyer regret that the one who was the advisor proposed by his party “will be part of it”. of the problem.
