“You cannot ask for more funding for the autonomous communities and vote against the path to stability.” This is the message that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, sent this Wednesday to the PP barons, whom he asked to pressure the leadership of his party to approve the path to stability when it returns to Congress.
At a news conference from the United Nations headquarters in New York, Sánchez downplayed the fact that his party withdrew the vote on the path to stability from the full Congress on Tuesday and insisted that “the Spanish government is not going to give up” doing its job, which is to present the state accounts. “We want to do it on the basis of the agreement,” he insisted, referring to the budgets that he says he is determined to approve despite parliamentary difficulties.
“It is important to have a path that has the parliamentary majority,” insisted Sánchez, recalling that the government’s plan included “12 billion more for the autonomous communities”, money that, according to him, is equivalent to “all community spending on housing in six years.” That is why he regretted that the PP communities “look the other way” and criticized the “hypocrisy” of the popular barons for not asking their president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to support the path to stability in Parliament.
Sánchez also appreciated the decision of Mexico’s newly elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum, not to invite King Felipe VI to her inauguration ceremony this week. “We find it absolutely unacceptable and inexplicable that the presence of our head of state is excluded. We cannot accept this exclusion,” the director general said. He also showed his “enormous frustration” with the fact that the Spanish and Mexican governments “are progressive governments.”
“Behind all this there is immense sadness because two brother peoples, due to the political interests of one, cannot have good relations between two progressive governments,” he concluded.
