The Government avoids amendments against the PGE of seven small parties and is pending ERC, PNV and Bildu

MADRID, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has ensured that seven small parties have ruled out presenting this Friday a return amendment to the General State Budgets for 2023, with which only Esquerra, the PNV and Bildu are pending, who are going to rush their decision until Last moment.

The deadline to register all amendments ends this Friday in Congress and their presentation has already been announced by the PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, Junts, the CUP and the deputies of Foro Asturias and Navarra Suma, who together have 159 votes, above the 153 representing the two parties of the Coalition government, 120 from the PSOE and 33 from United We Can.

The confederal group has two fewer seats than at the beginning of the legislature because it has not covered the loss of Alberto Rodríguez, whose seat was withdrawn by order of the Supreme Court and his other Canarian deputy, Meri Pita, joined the Mixed Group, although she did not will vote against the Budgets.

On the contrary, and as parliamentary sources confirmed to Europa Press, the PDeCAT, Más País-Equo, Compromís, Canarian Coalition, the BNG, the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) and Teruel Exists, which add up to a total of twelve deputies, have ruled out submitting that amendment to the whole.

At the moment, these seven parties have only ruled out requesting the return of the government project, which does not yet mean that they are going to vote in favor of its approval since that is pending the negotiation that will take place in the coming days and weeks.

But, at least, with those twelve votes or part of them, the Government parties will already have enough to overcome the rejection of PP, Vox, Cs and the independentistas of Junts and the CUP in the vote of totality planned in the Plenary of the next Thursday, first review of the Budget project.

The key, therefore, is once again in the hands of Esquerra (13 seats), the PNV (six) and Bildu (five), who plan to speed up the deadline for submitting amendments in their entirety while waiting to wrest commitments from the Government that they consider satisfactory.

And it is not ruled out that they present a complete amendment this Friday, since that is when the term ends, but that they continue negotiating for a few more days until next week's vote: if there is an agreement, they withdraw it and if not, they would already support the return of the Project.

In any case, the rejection of the Budgets, the last of the legislature and with an increase in social spending and an increase in pensions, is a scenario that the Government does not consider, no matter how much its partners stretch the negotiations.