The government sees “Much closer” budgets Generals of the State (PGE) after having succeeded in carrying out its tax reform. An approach which, according to the first vice-president and Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero“opens a very important avenue to continue exploring” the public accounts. “This is my next goal,” he said in an interview with ‘TVE’ this Friday.
Thus, Montero defended that the tax reform approved the day before in the Congress of Deputies “can guarantee that Europe gives its approval to the plan” that the Executive had presented, because it “provides more resources” and “corrects some errors of the previous “. Furthermore, he stressed that “this really allowed a training with all political groups during a cross-dialogue where someone wants something, the other party doesn’t want it“.
The head of the Treasury thus alluded to an arduous negotiation which finally crystallized in the approval by the Lower House of its budget package this Thursday, after a chaotic session at the Finance Commission a few days earlier, after having reached a last minute agreement with Podemos to save the reform on the very day of its vote. A situation which forced the Executive to do sales satisfy partners with irreconcilable positions and seemingly contradictory promises.
“I think it gives us perspective and opens a very important path continue to explore the budgets in this file now, which is my next objective,” Montero nevertheless affirmed this Friday.
In turn, Sumar’s spokesperson and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasunwas convinced this Friday that “there will be budgets”this is what the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who opened up on Thursday to the possibility of proposing a motion of censure“He will have to continue to sit and wait for the opposition.”
The spokesperson for the junior coalition partner said this in an interview also on TVE, where he said his group “more optimistic” facing the budgetary negotiation taking into account “capacity for negotiation and agreement” demonstrated by the Executive with its parliamentary partners “despite the atomization of Congress”.
Concerning the reform, he estimated that there was “notable progress”, but he admitted that Sumar would have liked to “go further”. In relation to the rule which recognizes the intermittency of income of workers in the cultural sector, Urtasun appreciated that the personal income tax has been adapted. “This tax reform is going in the right direction, but It didn’t go as far as we wanted.“, he underlined, referring to “unfinished business” such as “the energy tax or continued progress in social justice”.
He energy tax This was precisely the point of greatest friction in the negotiations on the reform: the government agreed this week with ERC, EH Bildu and BNG on its extension, but at the same time it committed to Junts not to tax these companies. in the sector that are investing in decarbonization.
On Thursday, the Executive agreed “in extremis” with Podemos to create a negotiating commission to promote a tax on energy companies or, if a consensus is not reached, to extend it into 2025. However, there is no guarantee that Junts will support her.
