The government of Pedro Sanchez has already given up sending to Brussels her budget plan 2025 on the date required by European tax rules, October 15. This was confirmed this Monday by the Minister of the Economy, Carlos’ bodyIn Luxembourgwhere he admitted that the Spanish executive will not be able to deliver to the European Commission no draft public accounts for next year because he did not do his homework on time.
This delay once again shows the parliamentary fragility of the Government. So far, within the legislature, the PSOE has already collected a total of 35 defeats in the Lower House. One of the most notable took place at the start of the new political year, when the PNV joined forces with the PP and Vox and supported a foreign policy initiative to recognize Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela.
The latest setback occurred two weeks ago, when Together he changed his vote at the last minute and decided to vote against limiting temporary rentals. Carles Puigdemont’s seven seats in Congress are essential for Sánchez to approve budgets.
And as if that were not enough, the shock also came from within the government itself. Minority coalition partner, Add, opened a new front for the PSOE in two areas: the party of Yolanda Diaz rejects, on the one hand, “inaction” in accommodation and, on the other hand, he is directly opposed to the concept of flexible leave that the socialists want to introduce into social security.
Despite this convoluted political scenario, Pedro Sánchez has still not resigned himself to having budgets. Indeed, aware of his weakness in Congress, the president has once again corrected his positions in recent weeks and has given in where he did not want to give in before.
The reason is clear. If there were budgets now, the president of the government would have enough political oxygen to reach the end of 2026, with only an extension in 2025. If there are none in the end, he will be much more difficult to cope with a full budget. legislature with the accounts approved in the previous one, in this case, in 2023.
Transfer to Bildu
The latest nod to one of his partners came last week, with the call gag law. Bildu reached an agreement with the Executive to reform these regulations and end the use of current ones balls of eraser on the part of Strengths Security. Until three months ago, the Interior opposed the elimination of these projectiles as police equipment for riot police. Now he has changed his mind.
With this agreement, the President of the Government leaves behind the government speech without Can Legislative and the argument on the normalization of a hypothetical extension of budgets due to the lack of parliamentary support. Once again, it makes its position more flexible to adapt to the curves that present themselves throughout the course.
It all started when Sánchez saw the crack that left the possibility for the Junts to return to the investiture majority by accepting a negotiation on the path to the deficit, as a prelude to a possible agreement to achieve the Budgetswhich will be voted on, expected, at the beginning of 2025.
To approximate Together He started by removing the deficit pathcontrary to what he had said previously, and dusted off certain agreements which were in an impasse, such as the transfer of powers of immigration or the use of Catalan in the institutions of the European Union, among others.
What timetable is the government currently setting? “Until we have the draft budget on the table we will not present the budget plan“, declared Carlos Corpus upon his arrival this Monday at the Eurogroup meeting. The head of the Economy set the deadline for the end of November. “We still have time. “The European Commission has until the end of November to carry out an assessment of the medium-term structural budget plans and this is the environment in which we operate.”
The greatest uncertainty, in any case, is represented TogetherBecause no one knows the path they can take Carles Puigdemont.
