Irene Montero says that the PSOE hid the figure for the increase in defense spending but guarantees that they will not break the Government

The incumbent dislikes that her partner imposed this measure but is conciliatory and stresses that they want to reissue the coalition

MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The head of Equality, Irene Montero, has admitted that the PSOE has managed to "impose" a large increase in military spending within the General State Budgets (PGE), whose specific figure they did not know at the end of the negotiation, and to which they always they have opposed.

However, and despite this discrepancy, he has lowered the tension within the coalition by guaranteeing that the Executive "is not going to break up" as much as "the right would like" and that it enjoys stability, given that even if they do not think the same in various aspects are able to draw many ideas in common.

In statements to Cuatro, collected by Europa Press, the head of Equality has not alluded to the term disloyalty to refer to the PSOE, as the spokesman for United We Can did yesterday in Congress, Pablo Echenique, but he has insisted that his formation does not had access to the four macroeconomic data detailing an increase of 26% in items related to defense.

After emphasizing that they have made significant progress in the Government after a "tough" budget negotiation such as the tax on large fortunes, advances in the family law and the fight against sexist violence, he regretted that the PSOE has imposed its status as partner majority in military spending when United We Can rejected it under the argument that more toilets or teachers are needed.

Therefore, he stressed that this situation encourages them to want to govern "with more force" to ensure that public money "does not go to more tanks or weapons." And at this point, he has guaranteed that his commitment is to re-edit the coalition in the next electoral cycle to govern "together" but with "more force." "The Executive is not going to break", Montero has deepened to reiterate, despite this divergence, that "important" things have been achieved in the budgets.

Montero has also emphasized that the purple formation has not felt relegated in this negotiation and that, far from it, he has claimed "never has a minority partner achieved so many things" within the Executive during the legislature, citing the deployment of the Minimum Vital Income, the increase in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage (SIMI) or the future Trans Law.

However, and questioned by the blocking of the housing law, the Minister of Equality has indicated that "she does not understand why the PSOE does not accept" and "refuses to negotiate" the improvements proposed by United We Can and the partners of the investiture bloc , such as regulating rent for all owners in stressed market areas and incorporating Sareb's homes into the public park.

For her part, the Secretary of Organization of Podemos, Lilith Verstrynge, has also maintained that the PSOE did not show them the macroeconomic picture at the end of the negotiation with the PSOE, as happened in previous years and with which they can check if in some items they disagree.

Consequently, he has reproached ETB in statements for adopting such a "notable" increase in this plot when, in addition, they understand that military spending was already "high in Spain."