The Directing Council of the Government of Extremadura has given the green light to the draft law on the general budgets of Extremadura, which amounts to 8,309 million euros and which could be the highest in the history of the region, as announced by President María Guardiola.
The president She does not have sufficient support and must negotiate. with a parliamentary group, and so far the only one to have sent a negotiation proposal has been Vox, which, although having broken its governance pact, remains a reliable partner for PP extremeño. Meanwhile, the PSOE is waiting to know the “big figures” of the draft General Budget of Extremadura (PGEx) for 2025 before deciding whether it will present an amendment in its entirety, affirms the formation led by Miguel Ángel Gallardo could be removed from this negotiation.
Faced with this panorama of political tensions, The Government of Extremadura would be closer to negotiating and reaching an agreement with Voxthey will therefore be the ones who will have the key to the next General Budgets which will be presented this Wednesday, November 20 to the Extremadura Assembly for parliamentary processing, and their demands must be heard by the people.
The opposition is surprised to see how María Guardiola presented certain accounts “without reaching an agreement”; The spokesperson for Vox in the Assembly, Óscar Fernández Calle, affirms that by not having negotiated an agreement has “no type of contractual obligation to support the accounts”. Therefore, your final decision will be made after studying “in depth” and knowing whether or not your proposals are included and to what extent, so it is not decided what your party will vote on. Reminding María Guardiola that they do not have any type of agreement with the PP or the Government of Extremadura.
About their approval requests of accounts only referred to what is contained in the “negotiating framework” established by the party at national level for budgetary negotiations in regional parliaments, as well as to the 60 measures of the governability pact signed at the time with the PP in Extremadura.
Finally, as to whether or not there were contacts between the Commission and Vox to negotiate the accounts, Fernández Calle recognized that the regional government “responded in writing” to the proposals that his party had put forward, but after its statements in which he indicated that this had not yet happened and at the same time alluded to the existence of a “confidentiality agreement”.
Possible modifications to the set
For her part, the spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Piedad Álvarez, affirms that His group is waiting to know the “big numbers” of the draft General Budget of Extremadura (PGEx) for 2025 before deciding whether or not to present an amendment in its entirety. He claims, however, that they are not “as bold nor as reckless” as the PP in the last legislature, in which they announced the modification of all accounts “thirty seconds after” their registration in the Legislative Chamber of Extremadura .
In this way, Piedad Álvarez indicated that they would study the “capital letter” and the “small print” of the accounts and then will make decisions in this regard thinking of the “best for Extremadura”.
However, he stressed that his group is “stunned” by the fact that Guardiola is presenting this morning a series of chapters of the draft accounts for next year while his “partner”, in reference to Vox, claimed not to have ” negotiated budgets. “.
It should be noted that, to approve the budgets of Extremadura, the Regional Government of Extremadura needs, in addition to the deputies of the Popular Parliamentary Group, parliamentarians from other groups because it does not have a sufficient majority and, in this regard, he indicated that perhaps They were forced to present these budgets quickly because they are “late”since they should have been recorded over a month ago.
For her part, the spokesperson for Unidas por Extremadura, Irene de Miguel, ruled that Feijóo and Abascal gave their approval to the Extremadura accounts.”said at the same time that “PP and Vox are franchises of their parties at the state level, and we already knew that the Extremadura accounts would not have the green light until Feijóo and Abascal were in agreement”, said De Miguel, who assumes that the regional managements are outside the negotiations.
De Miguel announced that Unidas por Extremadura would present a modification of the whole to the regional accounts because during the budgetary negotiation, they rejected all the proposals put forward by the parliamentary group. “They have not had the intention of agreeing on budgets with anyone other than Vox, and the policies defended by the far right are diametrically opposed to those we propose from Unidas por Extremadura” .
