The Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Elena Manzano, announced this Wednesday, October 2 to the media after meeting the CCOO and UGT unions and with the CREEX employers’ association that the budgets of Extremadura (PGEx) for 2025 will consider a 2% salary increase forecast for civil servants of the region, a game which amounted to 50 million euros.
He stressed that this increase “has not yet been agreed at national level, it is not yet closed”, but that the Council will budget it in 2025 at 2%, which “sounds good to social agents”.
Furthermore, during this meeting, Elena Manzano transferred to the Social Agents the convening of the general negotiating table to establish a payment schedule for everything owed to Extremadura civil servants since 2020.
As Elena Manzano explains, taking into account the fact that paying everything in a single annuity “is impossible”, the Council will propose to the General Negotiating Table that the payments take place “in several annuities”, and the first of them in 2025.
After highlighting in this regard the dialogue carried out by the Autonomous Government, he indicated that with the meeting this Wednesday, the Council intends to obtain from the social agents their contributions to the PGEx 2025, “being aware that we are in a negotiation process and even today, no precise figures can be provided.”
“We want to support social agents and employers’ organizations in this construction of Extremadura, in this growth of Extremadura”, underlined Manzano, who indicated that social agents have expressed their “concern” to the Commission. regarding “the same thing” about which the Regional Executive is “concerned”, “about continuing to build this egalitarian Extremadura, about the fact that the autonomous community continues to be a reference also in terms of employment, and in this support unconditional autonomy – employees and professionals”.
PGEX is growing
According to Europa Prees, regarding the content of the PGEx 2025, Manzano indicated to the social agents of the region that the budget “grow in what is truly important“, mainly in health and education.
Likewise, in terms of accommodationthe advisor indicated to the social agents that the PGEx 2025 will consider “new actions which will aim to make real housing available to the inhabitants of Extremadura”.
In this sense, he recalled that the measures implemented by the Council such as the housing guarantee have borne “very important fruits”, and he stressed that it is “practically” an “obsession” of the regional government to promote access to housing also from a fiscal point of view, with the increase in the deduction of 30 percent, he recalled.
Time limit
On the other hand, asked about when the preliminary draft of PGEx 2025 could be approved by the Board of Directors of the Board of Directors, the advisor indicated that it is now “in the negotiation process” and “it will depend of the manner in which the contributions will take place”. although “in principle” The planned deadlines of mid-October are maintained.
At this point, after defending that Extremadura was going to have “the best budgets in its history”, he stressed that the Regional Executive wants the accounts to be “approved and executed”, as well as a “proactive attitude” from the part of political groups.
“Maximum responsibility in what we do. We will have the best budgets that the autonomous community will have throughout history, and we want them to be approved and releasedand we want a proactive attitude from the groups,” he said.
“And with this responsibility and at the same time with the peace of mind that I am convinced that all the groups are interested in the people of Extremadura and that we are going to be able to reach an agreement, this is what will mark the times ” for the approval of the PGEx 2025 bill in the Board of Directors of the Management Board.
Finally, regarding the question of whether further contacts are planned with the parliamentary groups to negotiate the PGEx 2025, Elena Manzano declared that she would make telephone calls this week to advance the file.
“Now the progress we’re going to make, we agreed to make a phone call, I’ll do it sometime tomorrow or Friday. Let’s see how it goes… We really want there to be more concrete questions “, perhaps through these telephone or face-to-face conversations, at some point, during which we can balance the agendas, can move the negotiation forward,” he noted.
