Vox explodes against the Government's anti-crisis decree: "They take advantage of it to push through a budget"

PalmThe Government has secured the support of the PSIB, MÉS per Mallorca, and the deputy for Formentera for the anti-crisis decree to address the price increase due to the war in Iran. Vox has voted against it, arguing that it is a PP stratagem to push through a hidden budget. "We will not be accomplices in this mockery," said Cañadas: "They are using it to push through a budget."

Throughout the entire legislature, the PP has only managed to approve legislation without Vox four times. The first time, to correct errors in the Administrative Simplification Law after breaking with the far-right. The second, in Congress, to grant Formentera a senator. The third, to limit mega-farms, with the help of eco-sovereignists. On this occasion, Cañadas has railed against the PP for making a "credit trap," and has compared the alliance of "bipartisanship" to the graffiti on the Berlin Wall depicting a kiss between communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. "We voted against it, out of democratic dignity and against the systemic corruption of bipartisanship," Cañadas snapped.

In his speech, the first vice president and Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, outlined the effects the war has already had on the Islands: "a sustained increase in energy costs, fuel, fertilizers, animal feed, and freight transport that directly impacts our productive sectors and which, if no action is taken, ends up directly affecting families." Although the economic forecasts for the Islands, he said, are "favorable," the conflict has become "a stone in the road."

In this regard, it has recalled that the Executive has sent a letter to the Ministry of Territorial Policy so that the royal decree on State aid is complemented with measures to compensate for insularity. "The response from the Spanish government has been disappointing," he said: "It has declined to hold a meeting with the Government of the Balearic Islands to address this issue".

Negueruela: "Vox has no idea about economics"

The spokesperson for the PSIB parliamentary group, Iago Negueruela, has accused Vox of having "no idea about economics". "It voted against it because it does not contain language measures," he continued. He also defended his support for the anti-crisis decree.

The spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, said that the measures in the anti-crisis decree are "shared" by his group, but expressed concern about how they will be transferred to successive calls for aid. "We are abstaining as a precaution," he said. He also pointed out "shortcomings", mainly the lack of "negotiation" with the other groups.

For his part, the spokesperson for Més per Menorca, Josep Castells, denied the claims of the spokesperson for the PP, Sebastià Sagreras, and Costa, who said that they have "always" been against the war. "You have not made any clear reference against this war," he said, and recalled that Feijóo said that, before international law, human rights are more important.

Costa joins Sánchez's 'no to war'

Since the Spanish president Pedro Sánchez revived the historic slogan 'No to war' (which refers to the social rejection of the invasion of Iraq in 2003), the PP has been uncomfortable. At first, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, insisted that "the relationship with the United States (US) must be preserved", and avoided a frontal rejection of the war in Iran. But little by little, the popular party has been modulating its discourse. Especially since the conflict has generated a price increase in the whole country. In the plenary session of the Parliament this Tuesday, Costa has unreservedly embraced Sánchez's slogan: "We say no to war, no to any war, and no to a war that has consequences on the daily life of the Islands".