The spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Assembly, Isabel Gil Rosiña, has announced that her party will vote in favor of the amendment to the entirety registered by Unidas por Extremadura against the General Budget Law of Extremadura (PGEx), accounts that she has described as "unreliable".
After a detailed examination of the regional accounts, she explained that the PSOE has detected the same signals as Unidas por Extremadura and that, in her opinion, they make the project "unreliable" accounts from an executive that "is not reliable at all".
"A government that is not new, although it is now more radical, as we have just heard, with the far-right as part of it; a government that struggles to do its job and, therefore, struggles to execute budgets, as we have seen in the first two years they have been in charge of the Junta, but at the same time a government that likes to pretend," she pointed out.
In the turn to set the position on Unidas' amendment, Gil Rosiña argued that for this reason the Junta presents accounts "with more income than it actually has" and with a "fictitious and misleading" accounting design.
As a second piece of evidence, she mentioned the non-execution of budget items; the third, the origin of the resources, heavily supported by the "enormous contribution" of the regional financing system, even though it "hurts" the minister, and by European funds.
Furthermore, she pointed out that the socialists share a fourth piece of evidence with Unidas por Extremadura: the region, she said, needs a budget that "is not based on propaganda, on the impossibility of execution, and on the ideological imposition of the far-right that Guardiola today embraces."
"These budgets are written on the basis of far-right principles and are budgets that do not respond to the needs of Extremadura, because they are not up to the positive moment that the region's economic figures are experiencing and, therefore, they miss the opportunity to transform them into a lever for growth and prosperity for Extremadura," she remarked.
For this reason, Gil Rosiña warned that these accounts depict an Extremadura that the PSOE rejects and against which it will fight with all its "strength" and all its "political intelligence".
In this regard, he has recalled the words of the president of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Álvaro Sánchez Cotrina, who has stressed that the real problem in Extremadura is not the scarcity of funds, since the budget exceeds 8.8 billion euros, but the "lack of projects".
"Our disagreement with these budgets is not accounting, which is also due to the tricks contained in the bill, our disagreement is profoundly political, our disagreement is ideological, our disagreement is of two opposing models that we are going to demonstrate are very different and have very different consequences for people's lives," he stated.
Gil Rosiña has reiterated that, in his opinion, behind these accounts there is a "mixture of improvisation, accounting tricks, low execution and priorities" that he considers "wrong".
In fiscal matters, the socialist spokesperson has reproached that the "specialty" of the current Executive is the tax reduction and, against that approach, she has contrasted the model applied by the socialists, with the tax on banks, the tax on electricity companies and the tax on undeveloped land.
At this point, she has censured that in Tuesday's debate "not a peep" has been mentioned about the future of the tax on electricity companies. "I don't want to imagine the fanfare they are going to put on to materialize that and show that it is one of the government's agreements, because otherwise, it makes no sense that with all those who have spoken here today, no one has said a peep about this that is included in the government pact," she has pointed out.
"Gentlemen of the People's Party and Vox, gentlemen partners of the government of hate, we reject budgets that consolidate privileges for a few in Extremadura," Gil Rosiña has insisted, concluding that these accounts set a "dangerous roadmap" and reflect the "radicalism that María Guardiola and the People's Party have decided to embrace today".