Carles Puigdemont, ex president of the Generalitat and leader of the Junts, warned the government of Pedro Sánchez that his party would once again vote against the path of stability, without which it is impossible to approve the General State budgets. “For the same thing that we voted ‘no’, we will vote ‘no’ again. If they change it, we will talk about it,” the independence leader said on his social networks on Thursday.
Puigdemont thus responds to Maria Jesus MonteroFirst Vice President of the Government and Minister of Finance, who said he was “building bridges” with Junts to encourage the pro-independence party to think and vote in favor of the spending ceiling, a preliminary step to move forward with the budgets. The Congress of Deputies will vote next Thursday on the path to stability.
“As I see that they consider it a crime to change our vote, the answer to what they are asking us now will be the same as we have always given, there will be no surprises,” he said. Puigdemont in the same message. He also stressed that “mixing things up to confuse public opinion and stigmatize Junts is not a good idea at all.”
Similarly, he urged the Government “reconsider and reflect” about a graph he attached in the same publication on the execution of the budget in Catalonia and Madrid between the years 2015 and 2023, which, according to him, has a lot to do with the support or not of Junts for economic and budgetary policies.
“We have no way of understanding why in Madrid public investments worth 1.35 billion euros more than what was budgeted were made in 2023, and in Catalonia 1.25 billion less,” he concluded. president.
Together already voted against the spending ceiling last July, in the midst of negotiations between the Socialist Party of Catalonia and the ERC to obtain the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat. The decision of the pro-independence party to block the budget makes the continuity of the legislative power difficult.
