The Government approves the second budget with Vox and is already preparing the following ones

PalmThe Catalan government approved the 2025 budget this Tuesday, supported by Vox, the second of the legislature. Despite arriving six months late, the PP did not want to waste the opportunity offered by the fact that Santiago Abascal's party, on this occasion, was willing to support it. Both parties negotiated with the suspicion that these could be the last budgets they will pass this term, which will enter the pre-election campaign phase starting in September. For this reason, the far right has demanded significant concessions from the PP on language and immigration. "They have been bled dry," summarizes a Socialist source. However, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, will sign the order to prepare the 2026 budget next week, as reported by informed sources. Prohens is aware that, with the comings and goings of his partners, you never know and does not want to give up trying again.

The budget was passed after a three-day parliamentary session with hardly any interruptions. The PP and Vox were forced to extend the session to move forward, and Prohens's party took advantage of the opportunity to pass two other laws, the one on land acquisition and the one on industrial estates, during the same week. The budgets were practically identical to those the PP already presented in December 2024, which the far right rejected at the last minute, following orders from the Madrid leadership. Some of the concessions to Vox were introduced through amendments. Among them, The 21 million euros allocated to the Language Choice Plan, as well as the allocation for dental tests for unaccompanied migrant minors, the redefinition of the allocations for the promotion of Catalan—those of an "ideological nature" are reduced—as well as a further reduction in inheritance tax, two million euros for promoting birth rates, and aid for farmers.

However, the most important ones will be conveyed through other regulations, such as the inclusion of the vehicular use of Castilian in the Education Law, the repeal of the Law of Democratic Memory, the reduction of Catalan in the Administration, and the refusal to accept more unaccompanied migrant minors. Tramontana. In fact, Vox is going request that this rule be approved before the budget debateDuring the debate, the left denounced a "shameful" pact that, in its view, violates social and human rights. It also lashed out at attacks on the country's own language and the lack of measures against overcrowding. However, the government's advisors vehemently defended the pact with Vox. accusing the left of magnifying its consequences.

Voting ended on Wednesday without incident, unlike the debate on the same numbers held last December. The PSIB, MÁS por Mallorca, Más por Menorca, and Unidas Podemos voted against all sections. However, Vox distanced itself from the PP in Vote with the left to overturn the government's salary increaseThe instability of the far right has been highlighted once again by the clash between MPs Manuela Cañadas and Idoia Ribas, which occurred on Monday in the plenary session and resulted in Ribas's departure from the parliamentary group. The group, which began the term with eight MPs, is now halfway through its term with only five. "The fact that Vox is the third force is starting to become less clear.", he retorted to the leader of MÁS for Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, prompting complaints from the far right. However, for now this setback doesn't worry the PP, which only needs 30 deputies to pass laws—for now, it has the support of 31 parliamentarians.

The PP reaches the halfway point of its term. reaffirming its alliance with Vox"We're two to zero," says a source in the executive branch, who boasts of having managed to pass two budgets while Pedro Sánchez's Spanish government is still working on the extended accounts. leitmotiv that the representatives of the PP and Vox have repeated throughout the three days of debate. the main arguments of the right in response to the complaints of the left-wing parties. "What did you do in the last eight years?", reproached the Minister of Housing, José Luis Mateo, this Wednesday, after the PSIB deputy Mercedes Garrido had described the Policies to improve the PP's housing emergency situation.

Similarly, government sources applaud the statements of the PP's secretary general in the state, Miguel Tellado, who this Tuesday announced the "desire" of the party's leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to form a solo government that could reach external agreements with Vox. "The only PP government that has succeeded is ours," noted sources from Prohens' team, who believe that the PP's national strategy is more aligned than ever with that of the Canary Islands. As soon as the Speaker of the Chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, announced the approval of the accounts, Speaker Marga Prohens stood up to greet her parliamentary colleagues, amid resounding applause from the PP party.