With a clear distance from the left forces, the contact round will start with EH Bildu at 09:30, and will continue with Elkarrekin Podemos-IU at 11:00 and PP+Cs at 12:30.
The negotiations on the budgets for 2023 between the Basque government and the opposition parties, except Vox, start this Wednesday with a predisposition to listen and call for dialogue from all parties, but with distant positions.
Economy and Finance Minister Pedro Azpiazu, who has already warned that there will be no structural changes in the budgets before 2023, will first meet EH Bildu, the main opposition group and current budget partner of the government, who called a “bittersweet balance” of the agreement on the accounts reached last year. Abertzale’s coalition admits that the economic measures agreed at the time “have generally been delivered”, but not the “political commitments” aimed, for example, at improving the minimum wage and capping rents.
Despite this, EH Bildu will come up with “reasoned, reasonable and achievable” proposals and “designed to create minimum agreements” around “continuous and conservative” budgets that are “not worthy of meeting the country’s challenges,” they explained. Maddalen Iriarte and Nerea Kortajerana.
EH Bildu will also put tax on the table, an issue that seems “more difficult” to tackle in the Basque Country, as in Navarra “the debate has been opened” and the coalition has reached an agreement with the regional government, while Here “it is with the PP agreed tax model” is still in effect.
Elkarrekin Podemos-IU will also defend the need for fiscal reform in his meeting with counsel, although his main demand to promote the approval of the budgets will be that they contain concrete measures for “the materialization” of the education pact. The spokeswoman for the Purple Coalition, Miren Gorrotxategi, recalled that this pact stipulates that there must be sufficient public offer in all areas of education, but there are no public centers in municipalities such as Usurbil, Lazkao, Ibarra, Loiu and Lapuebla.
Therefore, “specific mechanisms (in the budgets) also foreseen in the Education Pact, such as the publication of centers” are needed. “We are not coming out of the education pact, but we are demanding that it be followed and if the government does not follow the law, we will not support the law (which will result from it),” he warned.
The PP will also attend the meeting “with the best of intentions”, although it believes that the government will limit itself to explaining the bills and believes that the “incentives” to submit opposition proposals have been “reduced”. given its absolute majority in parliament.
Like EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, the PP also wants to talk about taxes, albeit with an opposite approach, as it advocates lowering taxes on households and businesses so that this money can be used “to restore economic activity.” to get going”.
However, the opposition’s various tax claims will not be included in the budget negotiations, as government spokesman Bingen Zupiria has warned, as the talks will be limited to the budgetary scope and jurisdiction of the executive and taxation – he recalled – depends on of the delegates.
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