The organizing secretary of the PSCL, Ana Sánchez, believes that the presentation of the preliminary draft budget for 2025 by the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, responds to the need to an “excuse” to “build a story” which justifies a possible electoral advance in the community.
The socialist thus evaluated the announcement made by the regional leader during a press conference he gave in Zamora to talk about a proposal for aid to the Sierra de la Culebra, reports Ep.
In this context, Sánchez considered that the presentation of the preliminary draft budget for 2025 by Mañueco responds to a political strategy, because “it is in its weakest moment.”
According to Sánchez, this scenario responds to this situation of parliamentary weakness of the PP, which governs in a minority with 31 prosecutors of 81 after the break with Vox. “We are absolutely clear this is an imminent possibility. First, he prepared the budgets and now he is looking for dialogue. “No one believes it,” stressed the socialist.
In fact, Sánchez believes that the presentation of the preliminary draft budget is “the carrot that Mañueco will put” because “he needs a pretext for electoral progress.”
Vox, “very far” from the agreement
For its part, the parliamentary group of Voice in the Cortes de Castilla y León, member of the PP until last July, declared “very far” from reaching an agreement for the approval of the 2025 budgets, and regretted that the President of the Board of Directors only negotiated with “his bosses” from CCOO and UGT.
In the CEOE of Castile and León They appreciated the Accounts presented by Mañueco for the “impulse” they give with the “lowest tax rate in history”. For employers, these are “realistic” accounts which are committed to a Community “the most innovative” and “promoter of new investment projects”.
Moreover, since Soria now!the lawyer and spokesperson for the group Ángel Ceña, described it as “excessively rare” and “lots of propaganda” the presentation of the budget bill made by the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, whom he accused of “not having spoken to anyone” although he proposed dialogue. “Without explanation, we will not approve it,” he concluded.
The lawyer and Secretary General of the UPL, Luis Mariano Santoswho expressed his fear that the Council would use the preliminary draft budget, and its possible rejection in Parliament, to create a “story” which would allow it to have the “a sufficient alibi” call early regional elections. “This is our feeling,” said the “Leonesista” politician in a first analysis of the accounts presented by the Council, reports Ical.
In the same spirit, the parliamentarian of Mixed group and former citizens Francisco Igea assured that behind the preliminary draft community budget for 2025 lies a “maneuver” of the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, to show that he does not have sufficient parliamentary support and that he is forced to call regional elections in spring 2025. “It’s a reworked copy and paste,” condemned.
Finally, the lawyer of the Mixed Group and representative of Unidas Podemos, Pablo Fernández, qualified the preliminary draft presented as budgets “false” and “false”because he assured that they would not be approved, but in his opinion they are only presented for the “sole purpose” of having a “alibi” to call early elections in spring 2025.
