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

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

In this legislature, the PP has approved regulations without Vox four times. The first time, it corrected the errors of the Administrative Simplification Law with the left after breaking with the far-right. The second, it limited mega-farms at the hands of the eco-sovereignists, although at the last moment it ended up going forward with Vox, when the two parties reconciled. The third opportunity to get rid of the far-right, it had it in Congress, to provide Formentera with a senator, and the anti-crisis decree has been the fourth time. The norm has been validated, but it will not be processed as a bill.

Regarding the approved measures, Cañadas has lashed out at the PP for making a "credit trap", and has compared the alliance of "bipartisanship" with the graffiti on the Berlin Wall depicting a kiss between communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. "We vote against it, for democratic dignity and against the systemic corruption of bipartisanship", he stated.

In his speech, the first vice-president and Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, explained the effects the war has already had on the Islands: "a sustained increase in energy costs, fuels, fertilizers, animal feed and freight transport that directly impacts our productive sectors and which, if not addressed, ends up directly affecting families". Although the economic forecasts for the Islands, he said, are "favorable", the conflict has become "a stone in the path".

In this regard, he 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. "Spain's government's response 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 doesn't 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 of the anti-crisis decree are "shared" by his group, but expressed concern about how they will eventually 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 rest of the groups.

For their part, the spokesperson for Més per Menorca, Josep Castells, has 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 Spanish President Pedro Sánchez recovered 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 (USA) 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 State as a whole. In Tuesday's plenary session of Parliament, Costa unreservedly embraced Sánchez's slogan: "We say no to war, no to any war, and no to a war that has consequences on daily life in the Islands".