The PSIB attacks "lethal" budgets
Más por Menorca calls the PP's accounts a "big lie."
PalmThe government has managed to push through the 2025 budget thanks to Vox and amid strong criticism from the left, which has opposed en masse what it has described as a "pact of shame." In the latest round of interventions, PSIB MP Mercedes Garrido described the budget as "lethal" for the people, the territory, the memory, and the dignity of the Balearic Islands due to the accompanying measures regarding language, democratic memory, immigration, and urban planning.
"These budgets benefit those who have the most, but harm those who need them most," lamented Garrido, referring to the tax cuts. "They forgive taxes for the rich, but increase the dependency lists," she continued. "They favor speculators and the citizens, the young people, and the workers of this land pay for it." Regarding the PP's concessions to Vox on language issues, which involve including Spanish as a vehicular language in the law and expanding the choice of language in classrooms, as well as reducing the requirement for Catalan in the administration, the socialist accused the government of "selling the language to those who want to destroy it" and public schools to those who want it to be "uniform."
"We are a people proud of our history, who remember it so as not to repeat it," he continued. "Today you will sell it." In this regard, he recalled that the Speaker of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, is awaiting trial to remove a photograph of the Rojas del Molinar in the chamber. "They attack women who are murdered for their ideas," he insisted. Regarding the measures against illegal immigration demanded by the far-right in the PP, Garrido accused the PP of "selling out migrants to those they want to deport, and they don't want to welcome 49 minors, but they do want to welcome 20 million tourists."
Más por Menorca points out the "big lie" accounts
The spokesperson for Més por Menorca, Josep Castells, criticized the PP for presenting a budget document practically identical to the one the Catalan government presented to Parliament in December. He described it as a "big lie" and an attack on language and identity.