On Tuesday morning they announce that the PSOE and the United Nations Podemos have reached an agreement for the General Budgets of Spain by 2023. They have had discrepancies until the last moment, but they have reached common points for agreeing on the third budget of the legislature. EH Bildu Deputy, Mertxe Aizpurua, has stressed in Euskadi Irratia that “it is very important that this time we leave several issues together”, because they could be the last of the legislature.

Well, the Spanish government coalition has stressed that the next budgets will have “the greatest social spending of all time”: EUR 266.719 million. According to the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesús Montero, six out of ten euros will go towards social measures. These include, among others, the fact that for every child up to 3 years of age, a monthly grant of EUR 100 will be granted to all mothers, and not only to working mothers as before. They also announce that Renfe’s subscriptions will also be free of charge in 2023.

They are also planning to return the income of the unemployed to the previous ones of the government of Mariano Rajoy, a subsidy that will recover the 60% base from the sixth month. According to Vice-President Yolanda Díaz, this decision will affect 300,000 people.

On the contrary, the Housing Act, which has been a requirement of the United Can, has not been included in the budgets. UP warned that the increase in budgets could not be used for defence expenditure, but for social expenditure. Finally, the budget of the Ministry of Defence will increase by 6.5%.

The draft budget bill will be adopted in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday and will have to be discussed in Congress. On the right track, the measures would enter into force on 1 January 2023.