The deputy of the Popular Parliamentary Group, Hipólito Pacheco, has flatly rejected the total amendment presented by Unidas por Extremadura to the Draft General Budgets of the Autonomous Community, considering that it includes "everything" that the regional Executive does not want.
In contrast to that proposal, he has defended that the regional Government has drawn up accounts that offer "more opportunities, more employment, more freedom, better public services" and that are managed "with responsibility," and that do not aspire to "more Soviet interventionism, less freedom."
According to Pacheco, the amendment by Unidas would mean returning to the "fiscal hell" and would constitute a "constant attack" on productive sectors, in contrast to a budget that, he stressed, "will be approved by the people of Extremadura," the same one that gave 60% of the votes and 40 seats to the Partido Popular-Vox coalition.
He has insisted that that same electorate is going to reject a "rabid, retrograde, radical and communist" amendment against the highest budget in the autonomous region's history, drawn up by a government that, since 2023, has reduced the poverty rate by 6.5 points.
Along these lines, he has underlined that the key element is understanding how this situation has been reached, which he attributes "thanks to the economic and social policies" promoted by María Guardiola and her Executive, to whom he grants the merit --"and no one else"-- of presenting accounts of an expansive nature.
Extremadura, he has defended, shows positive economic evolution after the tax cuts for Extremadura taxpayers, support for productive sectors and their workers, and an "efficiently form" investment in the welfare state.
The Popular deputy has given as an example the reduction of the 'ecotax'. Although Unidas por Extremadura describes it as a "gift of 28 million" to the electricity companies, Pacheco maintains that without that measure "today the plant would be closed" due to the "ideological fanaticism" of the central Government, which, according to what he has warned, would have left "more than 3,000 people on the street, Campo Arañuelo would be ruined and we would have lost 5 percent of Extremadura's GDP".
In the same way, he highlighted the actions in the area of housing, which he defined as the main problem of Spaniards. He stressed that not only are tax cuts and incentive programs such as the young guarantee being maintained, but they are also being reinforced with the approval, this past Tuesday in the Governing Council, of the regional housing plan 2026-2030, endowed with 951 million euros.