The pro-independence partners of the Government do not take their vote for the approval of the project for granted and await the results of the dialogue
Esquerra Republicana and Bildu have announced this Friday that they will finally not present a complete amendment against the 2023 General Budgets to give room for the negotiations that are open with the coalition government.
With this decision by ERC and Bildu, which add up to 18 votes, the Government paves the way to pass the first vote on the Budgets, scheduled for next Thursday in the Plenary Session of Congress, although the favorable votes for final approval have not yet been tied .
And it is that both formations warn that this decision does not anticipate their vote in favor of the Budgets, not even next Thursday in the total vote, as Bildu warns: “The Government should not take any scenario for granted. All options They are still open today,” they warn.
Esquerra justifies the decision not to register an amendment to the whole to give “margin” and “create the conditions that allow the ongoing negotiations to be kept open, fully aware of the serious context of economic and social crisis that we have to deal with.”
In any case, ERC warns that they are still “very far from being able to approve the accounts”, considering that these Budgets “have a wide margin for improvement and must be accompanied by demanding structural measures”.
In this sense, they demand improvements in “housing, a change in the energy model, adequate regional and local financing and fiscal reforms to alleviate the social emergency situation”.
Likewise, they demand compliance with investments in infrastructures in Catalonia, the execution of which they consider “manifestly insufficient” and request “mechanisms for compliance with budgeted investments”.
Finally, ERC considers “it is essential that all the actors contribute to generating the necessary conditions of trust to keep the ongoing negotiations alive, with the aim of being able to reach agreements”.
BILDU: “CONVERSATIONS ARE ADVANCED” BUT THEY WILL BE “DEMANDING”
For his part, Bildu has explained his refusal to present an amendment to the entirety to the fact that the negotiations with the Government “are advancing” and “have intensified in the last few hours”, for which he has decided “to keep the negotiation dynamic open to try to reach an agreement on the first questions that this formation has put on the table.
In any case, he warns that this decision “does not determine the final position in the voting next Thursday” and that “it will act with the utmost exigency to satisfy the demands of citizens”: “The Government must not take any scenario for granted, all options are still open today,” he stresses.
From this formation they remember that “it is the Government that must win Bildu’s votes to approve the Budgets”, since “Bildu has no commitment or responsibility with this Government, but with the Basque citizens and, by extension and solidarity, with the working classes of the State and the peoples that compose it”.
Regarding the content of the negotiations, Bildu limits itself to informing that it is proposing to the Government “measures that respond to the social and economic needs that Basque citizens share and transfer”. “Social measures that advance and improve the living conditions of the social and working majority,” he asserts.
