Calviño orders to accelerate the Budgets and the PSOE already has technical teams to negotiate with ERC

The order came this Tuesday from the first vice president and head of the Government’s economic policy, Nadia Calvin: the General State Budgets must go to the next Council of Ministers, the last of the month. AND at most, they could be delayed one more week, to October 5. But not one more day “because there are many commitments to fulfill with Brussels and, otherwise, we will not arrive.”

In fact, from the meeting this past Tuesday between Felix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, with Gabriel Ruffian, spokesman for ERC, the formation of working groups has already been agreed to achieve the Republican vote in Congress.

This is confirmed by sources from Esquerra to this newspaper: “Negotiating some Budgets requires a technical team to analyze them, and a political team that includes the deputies in Madrid with the Govern“.

The argument of the rush is the one transmitted by government sources … socialist sources, it is understood. Because in United We Can the sudden acceleration has surprised, they have even angered. “It is absolutely impossible, as things are going there is no time”, they argue in the purple wing of the Executive. “Either they summon us to daily meetings at once, or they say yes to everything we ask at once … or they bring to the Council of Ministers a budget project only for the PSOE.”

Distrust from experience

That’s the real risk right now, because as they have both publicly confirmed Ione Belarra -manager and leader of Podemos- and Yolanda Diaz -Vice President and head of the purple wing of the Government- “the Budgets are very far from the agreement.” Like last year, the two heiresses of Pablo Iglesias they will take advantage of the negotiation to tighten the PSOE. The objective, to force the Socialists to “comply with what is signed.”

Then, the commitment that was started was that the Housing Law include the rent market intervention, to put ceiling prices on them, and the improvement of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) “which works very badly”, as he remarked this Tuesday Pablo Echenique. In this course what we have to do is raise taxes, according to Podemos, “as it is signed.”

That is, more tax pressure on companies, and “an effort to those who have more” to “be able to finance the social shield” … that is, the universal benefit for care of the Family Law of Grass.

Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, and the government delegation, meeting with that of ERC, led by Gabriel Rufián.

Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, and the government delegation, meeting with that of ERC, led by Gabriel Rufián.

Moncloa

But as the Housing Law has not yet come out of the Ministry of Transport – precisely because the PSOE claims that “another way to contain and lower rents is better” – nor has any reform been addressed in the IMV -only sketches-, the spokesman of United We Can in Congress recalls that “Nobody would understand that we signed anything without seeing the commitments of a year ago fulfilled”.

The coordination of the purple with the Catalan independentists is evident at this point. ERC sources add to this newspaper that “it takes the will to take the PGE forward”. That is to say, that the Government withdraws the appeal to the Constitutional Court against the Catalan Housing Law … precisely because the state law that protects the ceiling prices for rents in “stressed market areas” is already approved.

Too far or too close

The status of the draft, in any case, is different depending on which part of the Government is consulted. For the Treasury, he affirms that is advanced “to 80% or 90%” and that only details are lacking, which are closed with United We Can “and the rest of the parliamentary allies.”

However, the sources of the purple ones affirm that the law of General State Budgets is still in the first draft. AND the key requirement in this course is add “more fiscal ambition” than they see in the PSOE. That is to say, 15% minimum corporate tax and a rise in personal income tax “for the richest”, that is, to incomes greater than 130,000 euros per year, as stated in the coalition agreement

But although the Treasury admits that “it can be discussed”, Calviño says “no”, pending the conclusions of the commission of experts. That team, assembled by Maria Jesus Montero under the protection of his Ministry – and to balance “what was signed” with “the new socioeconomic circumstances imposed by the pandemic and the recovery already underway” -, must propose a catalog of reforms in February 2022.

And the PSOE does not intend to deliver the fiscal letter to Podemos, at least before sitting down to play.

Double negotiation

The most important law of the year is known like this because under its mantle the guidelines of the policy that the Executive will deploy in 2022 are woven. And since this is the Government with the least parliamentary support for democracy, the negotiation of public accounts requires a double leadership. The first, in numbers, the Ministry of Finance of Montero that discusses with Nacho Alvarez (We can). And the second, politically, that of the Bolaños Presidency, which has already closed its round of contacts with parliamentary groups.

The appointments of the first do not seem to advance, although this year fewer “red lines” guessed at purple partners. Meanwhile, the meetings of the other last are already bearing the expected fruits:

“Absolute immobility and obscurantism”, after the appointment with Cuca Gamarra (PP), “bythat they are seeking pacts to maintain the ‘Frankenstein government’ and continue in Moncloa, not to solve the problems of the Spanish. “And, on the contrary,” positive “feelings on the side of ERC and EH-Bildu. The Catalan independentists and separatists Basques offered their “responsible, open-minded, constructive attitude but demanding in the negotiation on the Budgets “.

Reference-www.elespanol.com

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