United We Can accuses the PSOE of hiding that “unilateral raise” and says the bet “makes it more difficult to rehabilitate the progressive majority”. However, he indicates that they are not going to break up the coalition, because that is what the PP and Vox expect.
Euskaraz irakurri: Espainiako Gobernuak % 25 igo du Defentsarako spends eta erabakiak haustura eragin du koalizio kideen artean
spend on To defend by 2023 it will rise a 25.8%that is, it goes from 9,791 million euros to 12,317 million, as stated in the Bill General State Budget 2023. The news, announced yesterday during the press conference after the Council of Ministers, has led to the umpteenth crash between the coalition partners, since United We Can accuse PSOE of “hiding” raise and execute the raise unilaterally”.
The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, explained that the Ministry of Defense budget will increase by 6.5% in 2023, an amount that rises to 8.4% if European funds are included and where EUR 4.9 billion of the special modernization programs, most of them for contracts with the state industry in the sector (including companies such as Navantia, Airbus or Indra).
Without expressly citing United We Can, Montero stressed that the 4,900 million that will be allocated to special modernization programs will directly or indirectly help create 22,667 jobs and has chosen to overcome an “excessively militaristic” view of spending that also is a job-creating investment. In addition, he argued that if the special modernization plan is excluded, the growth of the ministry will be well below that of the more social ministries, such as Social Rights (+18%) or Equality (+14%).
Spanish government president Pedro Sánchez pledged at the NATO summit in Madrid in June to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2029, nearly doubling current spending.
United We Can: ‘They hid the unilateral increase from us’
A few hours after hearing of the increase, United We Can spokesman in Congress Pablo Echenique accused the PSOE of “disloyalty” and denounced that the socialists had hidden a “unilateral increase” in defense spending from them. kept, something he described as out of “shame”.
Of course, he has emphasized that his formation “will not break the government” because of his partner’s attitude, as it would be “very irresponsible” if the leaders of PP and Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, “sharpen the knives against the progressive executive.
“But I want to say clearly that the unilateral increase in defense spending is hidden from us and it’s a shame,” he wrote on his Twitter profile.
We are not going to break the government because of the PSOE’s disloyalty, because it would be very irresponsible to let Feijóo and Abascal sharpen their knives. But I want to say clearly that the unilateral increase in defense spending is hidden from us and it is a shame.
– Pablo Echenique (@PabloEchenique) October 4, 2022
Echenique herself already pointed out yesterday morning that they would be alert and vigilant against possible decisions to increase defense spending that the PSOE could take unilaterally, as it had already happened on other occasions.
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