Budgets, Illa and Junqueras gain time
These budgets give Illa two years of breathing room. Budgets approved in June will also be for 2027, and, if necessary, extending them until 2028 will be no problem. And who also gains time here is Oriol Junqueras, who is the least interested in early elections in Catalonia while he remains disqualified because the amnesty does not apply to him and as long as he cannot stand for elections. This is what critics reproach him for, who believe that Esquerra's pact with Illa has been a bargain.
Images from this morning, when the Government met in extraordinary executive council to approve the budgetsMeanwhile, the teachers' strike continues, as we explain. The teachers' unions are not letting up. The negotiation between the Government and the union representatives will continue today: they remain stuck on improving salaries and, despite the wear and tear that maintaining the stoppages means, the unions are determined to continue them.
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Zapatero, an issue that will not leave us in the coming months, and certainly in the next 10 days, because he will have to testify on June 2. We have already explained that Sánchez's government is doubly affected by the case. First, because the airline rescue that Zapatero would have worked for was approved by Sánchez's government, and then by Zapatero's ideological influence over Sánchez. Yesterday, Europa Press agency distributed this photograph, from an event in Madrid with Zapatero and Minister Aagesen, almost as if one were consoling the other, who looks defeated. And the second impact is ideological. The right cannot stand Zapatero, and neither can part of the PSOE.
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