PP no descarta llevar a Sánchez al TC para renunciar a PGE y «extender» a los aprobados por otro Congreso

PP is determined to evaluate «all the actions that will be taken» before the resignation of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to present some general state budgets for 2025. In this context, it will not govern the Constitutional Court (TC) when it considers that the executive will not violate the Magna mandate, which does not exist.

This was stated by the second vice president of the Congress and the PP vice president José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro in an interview with the «Parliament» program of Radio Nacional de España (RNE), making it clear that the budget extensions in which some PP communities have used with the general state budgets.

«One thing is that, in a legislature, budgets are approved, and the following year they must be expanded, and another thing that happens in this legislature, that we are working with budgets that are not from this government or this legislature and that have not been endorsed by these courts, but by some already dissolved,» said the «popular».

In his opinion, it is «obvious» that «it does not mean complying with the mandate that the constitution itself gives to the government,» that is, with «the duty to present the budgets to the chamber». He also complains that, above the government’s fences, in a way that he considers «absolutely frivolous» that they will not present them «because it would be a waste of time».

«What the government says is that it has lost most of this room and this is the problem. What happens in this legislature is that we depend every day, in all laws and policies, on the requirements of radical independence minorities, who naturally put the political price week after week in exchange for their votes.»

For Bermúdez de Castro, this «everything produces an unprecedented erosion process of our democracy». «It cannot turn exceptional and exceptional tools into the norm,» he said.

Furthermore, the «popular» deputy protested the use made by the coalition government of the power conferred by the Constitution to veto the processing of initiatives that imply an increase in expenses or a decrease in income. And he cites as an example the one presented to his legal proposal and a similar one registered by Podemos, so that the minimum interprofessional salary does not pay tribute to IRPF.

«It makes no sense to express disagreement, because we request that the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary does not pay an IRPF tribute, and an hour later, the government agrees with the other part of the government that the minimum interprofessional salary does not pay a tribute in income tax.

In this context, he insisted that the government acts with a «permanent arbitrariness» that deepens the «degradation of parliamentary life» and emphasized that the «government’s veto» in a conjunction like the current one «is not justified».

According to his thesis, «the government cannot claim to have budget forecasts», since it has not been able to approve a ceiling for new expenses or budgets and governs with those of 2023. «They must necessarily release the expenses, because they have not been executed and they cannot veto according to the initiative of what the PP presents, which is an increase in expenses or a decrease in income,» he explained.

«The instrument to carry out this investment program is the budgets and they have not been able to present them, much less to approve them. This offers a history of the weakness of this government and provides a report on this provisional situation, which does not correspond to the constitutional model,» he concluded.

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