Last Thursday, the partial amendments submitted by both the opposition groups and the executive of Iñigo Urkullu were voted on in committee. PNV and PSE-EE once again asserted their majority and rejected all allegations from the other groups.
The budgets of the Basque Autonomous Community for 2024 They will be approved this Friday without incorporating any opposition amendments, after failing in the parliamentary committee because the groups that make up the Basque government, PNV and PSE-EE all voted against them.
Three departments – Health, Education and Labor and Employment – of the Basque government account for almost 65% of the total budget for 2024 (15,025 million euros).
The accounts project allocates 4,896 million euros to Health, of which Osakidetza accounts for almost 80%. Education will have a total budget of 3,672 million euros, with planned increases in staff in public centers (5.4%) and infrastructure investments, which will grow by 31.3%.
For its part, the department headed by Vice Lehendakari Idoia Mendia, Labor and Employment, will have 1,177 million euros, 6.1% more than in 2023, to cover benefits (641 million), including the RGI. (382 million), the IMV (180) and the additional rental subsidy (79) The item corresponding to Lanbide amounts to 1,161.7 million.
After passing the changes in the entirety of EH Bildu, Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, PP, Vox and CiudadanosThe opinion on the legislative project containing bills from the last year of the legislature was ready for final ratification on December 14 during the plenary meeting of the Basque Parliament that will take place today, Friday.
Last Thursday the committee voted on the partial changes presented by both the opposition groups and those who are part of Iñigo Urkullu’s executive branch. PNV and PSE-EE reasserted their majority, rejected all allegations made by the other groups and continued with the text adding their own amendments and those agreed with other parties.
The opposition parties blamed the Basque government for its lack of interest in reaching an agreement, the same complaint that PNV and PSE-EE conveyed to the rest of the parties, citing the proximity of the regional elections.
Leire Pinedo (EH Bildu) They defended their amendments and held the Vitoria-Gasteiz executive responsible for the lack of understanding, just as they did the popular Carmelo Barriowho opined that “no negotiation or rapprochement took place.”
José Manuel Gil (Citizens) aimed at labeling the budgets as ‘continuous’ and ‘not very adequate’ to meet current challenges Elkarrekin Podemos-IU did not speak and Vox He was not present at the committee.
Of the groups that make up the Basque government, Alaitz Zabala (PNV) He believed that the opposition “doesn’t believe” in their own amendments because they did not call the PNV and PSE-EE to try to negotiate them. For his part, the socialist Ekain Rico He pointed out that the opposition’s allegations “did not contain an alternative programme” and that it was not possible to support them “in a scenario of confrontation”, which in his opinion was staged with the five amendments in total.
Source: EITB
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