No party guarantees support for the Government's anti-crisis decree: "We haven't even seen the draft"

PalmThe PP expects the Govern's anti-crisis decree to be approved with "unanimity" or, if not, with the "broadest possible" consensus. But, for now, no party has guaranteed its support for the measure that President Marga Prohens presented last Friday. It is a series of economic aid measures to cope with the price increase caused by the war in Iran. However, both Vox and MÉS per Mallorca have criticized that the Executive has not even shown them the text. "We don't even have a draft," said the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas. For their part, the PSIB has limited themselves to saying that they are waiting to see if the decree also includes social measures.

The Government met last Wednesday with the spokespersons of the parliamentary groups to hear their proposals before presenting its anti-crisis decree law. But only two days later, President Marga Prohens announced the Executive's proposal. She did so, as MÉS per Mallorca and Vox have denounced, without consulting the groups or waiting to receive their written proposals. Nevertheless, the PP spokesperson in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, has insisted that the measures they have put on the table "are those that were discussed with the parliamentary groups and explained to economic agents". Next Wednesday, the decree law will go ahead in an extraordinary Council of Government, and thirty days later it must be validated in the Chamber. Specifically, the Executive will mobilize nearly 160 million euros that will go to ensure the liquidity of companies and self-employed workers, compensate for cost overruns in the agricultural, industrial, and transport sectors. In addition, it has announced a regional deduction in personal income tax to compensate for the increase in the cost of variable-rate mortgages and a bonus on port fees and professional fishermen. 45 million euros will also be allocated to review prices in public works and service contracts.

"A staged event"

The spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, considered the Government's meetings with social agents and parties "a staging" while the Government "waited" for Prohens to return from an institutional trip to present the decree-law. "We are told to make the proposal we deem appropriate and on Friday they present it, before any political group had sent him measures," he insisted. The eco-sovereigntist missed more social measures. The spokesperson for PSIB, Iago Negueruela, expressed himself in the same vein, reproaching the PP for not having approved this decree-law sooner. "The social part is missing," he said: "We are waiting to know the text".

For their part, the spokesperson for Vox, Manuela Cañadas, has not clarified whether she will support the decree-law, insisting that the Executive claims "a consensus that it has not had" in its elaboration. "We agreed to contribute our measures and that the decree could be approved this Friday or the next, without haste but without pause, and now they ask us for support for a text that we have not read, nor do we have a draft," he continued.