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The abstention of a deputy of Citizens, the independent Ana María Coto , has allowed the Asturian Government, of the PSOE, to initiate the autonomous legislature with the approved budget, a decision that contravened the criterion of the manager of the orange formation and that has led to the parliamentarian to announce his resignation.

To the abstention of Coto has been added that of the deputy and general secretary of Forum , Adrián Pumares , who has thus followed the guidelines of the party's leadership, facing the sector led by Francisco Álvarez-Cascos and of which the second deputy of the formation, Pedro Leal , who has voted against the accounts.

In this way the votes against the opinion of the budget law have risen to 21 (PP, Vox, Podemos and the deputy of Forum) against the 22 that added PSOE and IU, which, together with the two abstentions, has allowed Asturias to avoid a budget extension by 2020.

The plenary session in which the accounts have been approved has been marked by the turn of Citizens, whose parliamentary group, after weeks of negotiations with the Government, had announced that it would allow the budget to move forward by incorporating some of its demands.

However, the manager that directs citizens at national level imposed its judgment on that of the regional deputies who, after initially giving their approval to the accounts, returned to vote to decide by majority to change their criteria and move on to oppose the budget of the Executive Socialist after having abstained last week in the total amendments presented by PP and Vox.

Criteria Change

At the end of the plenary session, and visibly excited, Coto, who joined as an independent candidate for Citizens led by the former rector of the University of Oviedo, Juan Vázquez , who also resigned in disagreement with the orange formation pact policy , has announced his resignation when he disagrees with the "abrupt" change of criteria of the party.

"I have abstained, because my word is fundamental and I wanted to maintain consistency with what in our parliamentary groups we have been talking about in this negotiation period," he said to explain his position that, according to the regional direction of Citizens, obeys a "personal" decision.

After seeing their first budgets approved, the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, has regretted to see Podemos and "chained" citizens to Vox with his vote against the budget, which reflects that it is "the extreme right" that marks the path to the political opposition in Asturias.

The budget of the Principality for 2020 amounts to 4,757 million euros , 5.1% more, of which 3,195 million to social spending, 114 million above that of this year, while 366 million, 12 million are reserved for productive investment more than in the current year.

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