• Economy.Sanchez renounces the 2020 Budgets and plans to govern 2.5 years with the extensions of Montoro

On May 31, 2018, seeing as it was very likely that the motion of censure would succeed, the still Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, warned Podemos that they were going to have to "eat with potatoes" the Budgets of the Party Executive Popular . That, despite the possible change in government, the accounts prepared by the Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro, would remain in force.

So it was. But what Rajoy himself would probably ignore is that this prophecy would be maintained not only during 2018 or even 2019, but that it would go until 2021 with those same Budgets , which is precisely what is going to happen. Yesterday, the current Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, announced that the Sánchez government resigns to present the 2020 accounts because all the previous work has been "outdated" as a consequence of the coronavirus crisis.

"Podemos was very appreciative with the General State Budgets. They are the Budgets of social crumbs, of the scam, they consolidate a model based on extreme inequality and precariousness. It is a Budget that leads the social majority to live in the most Absolute insecurity, they reduce the welfare state to a minimum. Well, for all this, perhaps and with forgiveness of expression, they are going to have to eat it with potatoes, "predicted Rajoy.

He did so during the turn of reply to Pedro Sánchez, whom he also warned and addressed with irony since he should govern with his accounts. "They voted against the Budgets, and they also did it with enthusiasm. Because it was a no of those of no is no. And also, they seemed horrible to them. They almost generated urticaria. Therefore, I am unable to understand how you are going to live together with such monstrosity, "he said.

Almost a decade of Montoro

The new budget extension will also cause the current one to be the ninth consecutive year in which Budgets drawn up by Montoro govern . Since 2012, he has been responsible for public accounts, and from 2018 without even being responsible for the Treasury. What's more, it is no longer part of Congress and even so its Budgets are maintained. An unequivocal sample of the political fragmentation and the inability of the current Government to, for one reason or another, carry out some accounts .

Montoro's influence goes even further if one takes into account that he was already Minister of Finance during the second term of José María Aznar, and Secretary of State of that same department between 1996 and 2000. In total, 17 years in which he been directly involved in the preparation of public accounts .

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