“There is a Government for a while,” Pedro Sánchez assured this Friday, after the day before the Congressional Justice Commission unblocked the processing of the Amnesty law with the agreement between the PSOE, Junts and Esquerra. “We are going to do many things during these next four years, in the field of coexistence, employment and social rights. That is what we are going to dedicate ourselves to,” stressed the head of the Executive, in a joint appearance with the Chilean president Gabriel Boric, at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago de Chile, the last stop on his current South American tour.
“There are going to be four years of the progressive coalition government, no matter who it may be,” Sánchez warned. “It will take a long time, I understand, for the opposition. But that's democracy," he replied to the Popular Party.
After the agreement on the amnesty, the Government now focuses its efforts on ensuring that new general budgets of the State see the light for this same 2024, which would be the first of Sánchez's new mandate, after chaining their approval in the previous legislature in the last three exercises. "The Government's objective is clear, we want to approve the general budgets of the State in the year 2024, and we also want to approve those for the year 2025 and we aspire to approve those for the year 2026," he highlighted. As he usually predicts, the next general elections will not be held until 2027, no matter how much the right perseveres in trying to overthrow him.
The agreement on the amnesty has cleared the way for the Government, although in the negotiation of the budgets it has nothing guaranteed in advance, nor did any group advance it any blank check. And much less Junts per Catalunya. “We are going to speak with all the parliamentary forces to draw up the general budgets of the State as soon as possible,” Sánchez stated, without wanting to advance any date. “As soon as possible, I hope that as soon as possible we can present the draft budget to the Council of Ministers and send it to the Cortes Generales,” he said.
