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"To be able to approve some Budgets, the first thing we will have to know is what budgets they are." At least its "fundamental lines". The new national spokesman of the PP, José Luis Martínez Almeida, has thus intervened in the debate on the "pressure" of Pedro Sánchez on the PP to support the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2021.

In his first press conference as the national leader of the PP, the mayor of Madrid has emphasized that, a priori , his party cannot agree on the Budgets "with Pedro Sánchez's partners", because that is a "red line" that put the party in February, before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

What the party of Pablo Casado will do is wait for the Government to present "the preliminary draft" of the Budgets, to see if they point towards a possible understanding or not: "First present the fundamental lines and then ask the opposition to pitch in ". "Do you really want us to say yes to a blank check? We deserve more rigor and more seriousness," Almeida stressed.

"The Budgets are a reflection of the policy that they want to do, and the policy of Podemos is incompatible with that of the PP. Its partners do not want more Spain, but less Spain, they are the ones who want to subtract, and the policy that they defend they have not changed an iota ", explained the mayor of Madrid. "The one who has problems to approve the PGE and reach agreements is Sánchez. The responsibility is his" and "he has to set an example" by leaning his shoulder before asking others, he insisted.

The popular spokesman has also insisted that the PP cannot "lobby" with the appointments of the General Council of the Judiciary. In any case, Genoa sources add that they expect "some" agreement proposal from Sánchez at the meeting he will hold with Casado on Wednesday at La Moncloa. "We are not going to take the photo," stressed Almeida.

Dart to Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo

Asked about Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo's decision to remain in Congress - as he advanced in an interview in EL MUNDO on Sunday - to "find out" how far the "freedom of a grassroots deputy" goes, Almeida has thrown a dialectical dart at him. with all the intention: "If I had been a deputy for four legislatures, I would have a fairly approximate knowledge of the freedom that a grassroots deputy has, without the need for further prospective research."

"The doors of the PP will always be open for her. To continue as a deputy was her personal decision and we respect her at all times, regardless of whether or not it is to test the freedom of a grassroots deputy," he added.

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  • Congress of Deputies
  • State's general budgets
  • Pedro Sanchez
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