The Regionalist Parliamentary Group plans to register a whole amendment to the draft Law on the General Budgets of Cantabria for 2027, considering that there have been "repeated breaches" of the agreements signed since 2024 with the Executive of María José Sáenz de Buruaga (PP) and for "the lack of credibility and solutions detected" in the new accounts.
The decision was adopted last night by the PRC Executive Committee, which met to study the document submitted to Parliament and to set its position, as the party itself reported this Wednesday.
"We cannot give more oxygen to someone who has no word and systematically breaches most of their commitments," the candidate for the Presidency of Cantabria, Paula Fernández, said, explaining the purpose of the amendment.
Along with these "breaches," Fernández criticized the budget design, which in her view is "inflated and inefficient, incompatible with the stability path and that reduces investment while increasing current spending, without addressing the shortfalls to deal with essential outlays, such as the pharmaceutical bill".
The regionalist leader also criticized the regional president for "disregard and lack of respect" which, she claims, the PP has shown toward the panel of experts proposed by the PRC to assess the degree of implementation of the latest budget agreement, signed in March, and in which the chair professor José Villaverde, the engineer Fernando Saldaña and the nurse María Ángeles Terán participate.
"They are three independent professionals and they have worked with absolute rigor to determine whether the Government complies or not with the commitments it has assumed, and therefore they deserve respect for their work and for the conclusions they have reached," Fernández defended.
Only 32.8% of the commitments have been met
According to the assessment prepared in October by this commission, the regional executive "only" has fully carried out 43 of the 131 commitments signed with the PRC, which amounts to barely 32.8% of the total, while another 18 are in the development phase and 70 remain pending.
For the regionalist candidate, these figures, added to "the breaches of 2024 and 2025 and the shortcomings of the 2027 project," show that "there is no will to honor what was agreed" and support "the decision not to facilitate the approval of new accounts".
Fernández has stressed that the PRC has acted "with responsibility and an enormous generosity" to maintain institutional stability in Cantabria and allow the PP "to be able to govern in minority and without paying the toll of an anti-autonomist party like Vox", but he has warned that "responsibility cannot become a blank check for a president who signs agreements and then does not comply with them".
In his view, the 2027 budget project, registered in the Assembly "without prior negotiation or any attempt to reach an agreement that guarantees its approval, lacks credibility and does not provide feasible solutions to the many problems that Cantabria is suffering from".
"We don't know whether the Partido Popular has other options to move them forward; we assume that it does, but the PRC is not going to tolerate one more year that the commitments that are made are not fulfilled", he has put an end to.