Yolanda Díaz assures that the debt ceiling negotiated by PSOE and Podemos does not contemplate an increase in defense spending

He criticizes that "not a cent of a euro" went "unfortunately" to the regions in which the Defense sector is concentrated, such as Ferrol or Cádiz

MADRID, 29 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, assured this Monday that in the negotiations held between the PSOE and United We Can for the next General State Budgets (PGE), the agreed debt ceiling does not foresee an increase in spending on Defending.

"In the debt ceiling that we negotiated in the summer, of course, there was no increase in defense spending," Díaz remarked in an interview on Cadena SER, collected by Europa Press, in which he was convinced that the Government will be able to carry out the Budget for 2023.

In the opinion of the 'residential' leader, the next budgets "more than ever have to respond and be useful to citizens" that is, "they have to enter people's houses" and be "closer than ever" to the citizen on foot.

"Useful politics is that capable of solving problems," he claimed, assuring that socialists and 'purples' are negotiating "calmly" the accounts for next year.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, promised last June during the NATO Summit in Madrid to increase defense spending to reach 2% of GDP by 2029. Days later, the Government gave the green light to a credit of more than 1,000 million for the department headed by Margarita Robles, which opened a bitter controversy with Podemos.

Faced with criticism from the 'purples', Robles defended then that a greater investment in Defense supposes jobs. Asked about this position, Díaz has avoided entering that debate again, although he has maintained that that credit "not a cent of a euro" went "unfortunately" to the regions in which this sector is concentrated, such as that of Ferrol or Cádiz.

In another order of things, the second vice president has defended the tax that the Government is preparing to impose on banks and energy companies. According to Díaz, it is about "choosing between policies of pain" now that some are committed to returning to "austericide" or "attacking those who are the cause of inflation today."

Both the Government and Sánchez are doing what needs to be done, which in this case is "acting on financial entities and also on companies linked to energy", he defended, while expressing his opinion that "we must do much more in a country where there is a fiscal fracture" and calling for "an in-depth tax reform".