MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Socialist Group in Congress, Isaura Leal, rejected this Tuesday the claim of the Esquerra Republicana to link the negotiation on the Budgets for 2023 to the reform of the crime of sedition. “We do not put red lines, but when we talk about Budgets we are talking about precisely that, Budgets”, she has pointed out.
This is how the ‘number two’ of the PSOE pronounced itself at the press conference it offered in the Lower House after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, in response to the question of whether they are willing to talk about crime reform of sedition now, since ERC makes it a condition to negotiate public accounts.
This same Monday, the ERC spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, demanded that the negotiation of the Budgets and the process of dejudicialization advance “at the same time”, and last week the spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, highlighted before the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who cannot be negotiated while there are people with pending cases on behalf of the ‘procés’.
Leal has highlighted that this is a legislature marked by “negotiation and agreement”, a maxim that is also valid for parliamentary processing. In this sense, he has asked to give a vote of confidence to the people who are negotiating on behalf of the Government and the PSOE and also “of confidence, not naivety” for the interlocutors of the other parliamentary groups.
In this sense, he has made it clear that, although the PSOE does not set “red lines”, it does believe that this negotiation should be limited to purely budgetary matters.
On the other hand, Leal has been asked about the fact that the president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), Cristina Herrero, has acknowledged this Tuesday in Congress that she doubted whether to endorse the macroeconomic picture on which it has been built the Budget project, which, in his opinion, “was born already vitiated” in origin by its “deficiencies”.
The socialist leader explained that she had not listened to Herrero’s intervention, but has defended that the public accounts have been designed with the “rigor” and “technique” of the administration’s experts.
From his point of view, the project complies “more than enough” with the required technical conditions and the Government also complies with Europe both in terms of reducing the deficit and the public debt.
