Finance minister to explain budget plans

The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, will appear in the Senate today to present the objectives of her department in this legislature, in a context of budget negotiation with the 2024 public accounts on the horizon.

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At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Montero will appear before the Finance Commission at the request of Izquierdas por la Independencia, the coalition formed by ERC and Bildu.

The minister will report on the general policy lines of her Ministry, as she already did in the Congress of Deputies in January. The appearance takes place at a time when budget negotiations are underway, as Montero has reiterated to the media on several occasions.

The Government is preparing the General State Budgets for 2024, for which it will need the support of all its coalition partners if it wants them to move forward. Montero has stressed in recent weeks that the conversions are on the right track, so she trusts that the accounts will be approved as soon as possible.

The path of deficit and public debt, however, is prolonging the process, since the PP’s veto in the Senate made the Executive have to present the stability objectives again. Yesterday, the Lower House debated the stability objectives.

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