The former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, has warned the Government this Thursday that his party will again vote against the budget stability path. He has done so in response to a publication in the social network X in which a news item was linked to statements by the first vice-president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, who said that they are “building bridges” with Junts, and that she hoped that the party would reflect and vote in favor of the stability path.
In a harsh message, Puigdemont has expressed: “To the same thing we voted ‘no’, we will vote ‘no’ again. If they change it, let’s talk”. The stability path marks the spending targets and is the previous step for the elaboration of the 2025 budget, which the Government must present to comply with the constitutional mandate.
Contrary to this constitutional mandate, the Government has already renounced to present the 2024 budgets in view of the evidence that it would not have a sufficient parliamentary majority to move them forward. Now it announces that it will try to present budgets for 2025, assuring that, if this is not possible, it will again extend those of 2023.
