The lack of support from the Junts leaves the executive branch without enough votes to continue on the path of stability. The rejection forces the Spanish government to approve new objectives within a period of four weeks, which must then be submitted to Congress.
The deputy spokesman for Junts in Congress, Josep Maria Crusethas announced that his party will vote against the path of stability on Tuesday, which will mean the return to the Spanish government of deficit and debt targets, as well as the accompanying spending ceiling for 2025.
Cruset, in statements to the media in the courtyard of Congress, justified this rejection by the low execution of previous budgets in Catalonia and explained that the Spanish government will not be able to count on the seven votes of the Junts to process the 2025 budget. Budgets until this situation is reversed.
The vote will take place one day before the vote meeting which they will enforce this Wednesday in Barcelona the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the acting President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès.
The lack of support from the Junts, which leaves the executive branch without enough votes to continue on the path of stability, complicates the budget calendar, as it will force the Spanish government to approve a new path and restart the parliamentary procedure.
According to the Budgetary Stability Actthe rejection of the path of stability forces the Spanish government to approve a period of four weeksnew targets for later submission to Congress, which begins its August recess next week.
If this second path were to be approved, it would have to go to the Senatewhere everything points to it being rejected by an absolute majority of the PP, which would be compelling return to Congress to lift that veto, a process that would take several weeks.
Until there is a path of stability, the Spanish government cannot present the budgets for 2025, which it should do before the end of September so that they are processed in the Cortes in the last three months of the year and come into force on January 1.
The Spanish executive has not approved any budget during this term, as it refused to present them before 2024 after the call for elections in Catalonia, saying this would complicate negotiations with its partners.
Source: EITB
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