The Government is working on the preparation of the 2023 Budgets so that they see the light "in a timely manner"

MADRID, 7 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government spokesperson and Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, has stated that the Government's technical teams are working on the preparation of the 2023 General State Budgets, with the aim of carrying them out "in a timely manner".

"That is the will of the Government for the next Budgets", Isabel Rodríguez stressed this Tuesday during the press conference after the Council of Ministers.

The Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, has already advanced that she will bring "very soon" to the Congress of Deputies the 2022 non-financial spending limit, known as the 'expenditure ceiling', with which she gives the starting gun to the preparation of the General State Budgets (PGE) for next year, for which the Executive is already working.

As in 2020, 2021 and 2022, the European Commission has proposed that the rules that limit the public deficit and debt of the Member States continue to be suspended in 2023. The suspension of the fiscal rules, which has to be approved by the Government With the approval of the European Commission, it is protected by articles 135.4 of the Constitution and 11.3 of the Budgetary Stability Law.

Montero has already anticipated that, like last year, he will ask the Congress of Deputies to recertify that it appreciates the existence of an exceptional situation that justifies the need to suspend these deficit and debt rules and thus legitimize the decision of the Government, as required by the Constitution and the Budgetary Stability Law.