The control of the Government in the Senate has been taken into account Maria Jesus Montero to its main protagonist. The Minister of Finance, who had chaired the Council of Ministers in the morning in the absence of Pedro Sanchez -on an official trip to New York-, was questioned about the government’s unexpected decision to postpone the vote on the deficit trajectory and the Catalan quota, on which she continues without giving details despite repeated questions.
“Listen to your big boss, the master, when he demanded budgets or elections and said that a government without budgets was like a car without gasoline. Call elections, the Spanish will thank you,” he said. Alicia Garcia this Tuesday in the Senate.
His remarks included a rebuke to the government for postponing debate on the deficit trajectory because it was certain the vote was lost. “Respect the Constitution and present the budgets now. “There are more extensions than approved budgets,” he said.
The minister did not answer any of the questions directly. He limited himself to asking the PP to be consistent and to vote in Congress as their autonomies voted in Parliament. Fiscal and Financial Policy Councilwhere they abstained and allowed this deficit trajectory that they do not support to be approved in Congress.
García also spoke about the Catalan concert and reminded Montero of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s words during the investiture debate: “When your partners fail you, don’t come looking for us. Either the separatist quota or Feijóo.
Regarding the Catalan quota, Montero once again seemed elusive. “I have never spoken about the independence quota. It is the PP that does it because the agreement has not been read. The president has already said it, the reform of the financing system must mean that everyone receives a greater volume of resources. The agreement speaks of solidarity so that there are public services throughout the territory. Stop confronting Catalonia and stop practicing a policy in which this government, based on dialogue, defuses a situation in which we have had a government of non-independence or a majority that allows Illa to be president of the Generalitat. “We cannot talk about equality or solidarity when some autonomous communities forgive taxes on the highest incomes while asking for more money from the State because they do not have funds to support public services,” he stressed.
