With the 31 votes of the PP in favor and the abstention especially of the PSOE lawyers, in addition to the Mixed Group, the spending limit non-financial system designed by the Junta de Castilla y León as a basis to support the 2025 budgets appeared this Wednesday at the Cortes after a long session. Against this, only Vox, which until July was a partner of the government chaired by Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, in addition to the UPL-Soria ¡Ya! and the Unidas Podemos parliamentarian. The truth is that the “neither yes nor no” confirmed on Tuesday by the spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group, Luis Tudanca, concretizing the insinuations of previous days on this subject, took away some of the emotion from the debate. Of course, only on the result of this vote, essential to keep moving forwardbut which, as all the opposition lawyers who spoke pointed out, does not go further.
A rising spending limit up to 13,490.5 million3.82 percent more than this year, and which allows advance one box for the preparation of next year’s accountsthe preliminary draft of which was already presented on October 15 by Mañueco, placing it at the “record” of 15,084 million euros, or 3.58 percent more than those in force. Of course, this does not mean that this quadrant of income, expenditure and projects prepared for the first time in five years by the President of the Board of Directors with a monochrome PP government is the one that finally reaches the House again for debate and vote. And it’s even less of a guarantee that this abstention allows us to reach the final box of this council and its approval so that they come into force and govern during 2025.
For the moment, the “highest” spending ceiling so far designed by the Junta de Castilla y León has been approved, as Carriedo points out, who once again defended figures marked by the “criterion of prudence » and which, according to him, have the approval of Airef (Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility). This spending ceiling and the preliminary draft budget presented, he said, constitute a “good basis” for trying to reach an agreement. “And the Junta de Castilla y León wants to promote this path through dialogue, to reach the broadest possible agreement,” said the spokesperson for the Regional Executive, who encountered many doubts about the true “ intention” of the Council. to execute these budgets.
For now, the PSOE movement allows the game to continue. “We will abstain without any conditions to facilitate the capping of expenditure so that the budget process can begin,” socialist leader Luis Tudanca declared on Tuesday, thus revealing the mystery of recent weeks.
Tuesday, during the plenary session, the socialist leader justified his announcement by saying that “I believe that this is the best we can offer to the citizens of this territory” and then asked the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco , to “bring the budgets back to the Cortes so that we can talk about housing, education, health, social and economic policy. “The PSOE demonstrates, once again, that it is up to the task. Now it we have to prove it,” he concluded.
