The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group, Juan García-Gallardo, announced on Thursday his vote against the ceiling on non-financial expenditure for 2025 approved by the Governing Council as a preliminary step to the draft community budget, currently in the preliminary phase. project. and refused to participate in the “show” and “theatre” of the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, whom he once again accused of having put aside the policy he applied with Vox to bet on political “progressivism”.
“We will have to look for partners elsewhere,” said García-Gallardo, who objected to the praise of the “film” that, according to him, the PP has achieved with the ceiling on non-financial expenditure and with the pre- PP project. Community finance law for 2025. “To watch films, we go to the cinema”García-Gallardo concluded that Vox actually reached out from Vox to the PP, which he asked to rectify and express “a real desire to construct a real budget”.
That said and after confirming that he would attend the meetings convened by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, he clarified to the Council and the PP that They will have to “respect” the “premises and legacy” left by Vox while he was vice-president and in three ministries, including that of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, the one which would experience the strongest growth if next year’s accounts were approved, in what he considers to be part of an “electoral history”. “
García-Gallardo clarified to the Commission and the PP that the thirteen lawyers of Vox will not collaborate with illegal immigration nor with the “ruin” of the landscape and industry and added that They are also not going to “go through the stage of purely aesthetic or cosmetic tax reductions”.to which he added that the reason that pushed the people of Santiago Abascal to leave the autonomous governments last July, to fight illegal immigration, remains.
The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group also referred to “unacceptable elements” in the draft budget law of the Autonomous Community for 2025, such as the Ministry of the Environment. increased from 900,000 euros to 9 million “the money given to the UGT and the workers’ commissions for advice, awareness and patatín y patatán,” he quipped.
García-Gallardo also doubted the reasons why the socialist parliamentary group will have to reject the community budget project, if it is finally registered, which he described as “a little candy” for those of Luis Tudanca, with whom he shared the reading that the PP does not want to do the accounts for next year.
“They are the ones who wish and it seems that they are going to get their wish, it is that Vox does not support the budget to feed, we will see what story, but “The Popular Party fulfills its objective, which is not to approve a budget”García-Gallardo has settled in.
The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group opened the press conference this Thursday at 10:40 a.m., a fact that he highlighted to criticize the Council which made no appeal to its former associates of the government to try to develop together a budget for the 2025 financial year.
“It’s already significant in itself,” criticized García-Gallardo, who regretted that Fernández Mañueco’s team had done nothing in recent weeks. “no effort to approach” to Vox “neither in public nor in private”. “The Government did not call us, it summoned us at the time for a paripé to talk about politically exhausted issues, but neither the parliamentary group, nor its spokesperson, nor any lawyer called us”, – he reiterated.
A responsible opposition
The spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group confirmed that his party will lead “a responsible, noble and energetic opposition” facing the “progressive drift”he repeated several times, from Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, to whom Vox has once again reached out a hand if he wants to rectify the observation also that “he makes things much more difficult each time”.
García-Gallardo argued that not voting in favor of the non-financial spending cap for 2025, which will likely be postponed until the next plenary session, is “the most respectful thing” that Vox’s thirteen lawyers can do with the will of the voters. who trusted Santiago Abascal during the February 2022 elections.
“We will not betray trust, We remain firm in our position,” concluded the spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group, who clarified that if the Council and the PP rectify and make “serious and clear gestures” with regard to Vox’s policy, it will be able to “reconsider” the initial position of rejection of the spending ceiling, even if he insisted on the fact that there is for the moment “no hope” concerning “reconciliation with the unions” and the “restoration of privileges to social agents”.
“We have seen a desire to continue to collaborate with the illegal human trafficking mafias and with the NGOs that contribute to their success. We have seen no ambition in terms of tax cuts. We have seen the recovery of the 2030 Agenda as a program that inspires the policy of the Junta of Castilla y León”, summarized his criticisms of the actions of the government of Fernández Mañueco since he governed alone and in a minority.
