Dec. 20 () –
The Plenary Session of the Senate has given the ‘green light’ this Tuesday with a large majority to the 2023 General State Budget (PGE), the third and last of this legislature. As no changes are included, the new public accounts do not return to Congress and are definitively approved for their entry into force on January 1.
Specifically, the opinion on the Budget project received 145 votes in favour, 118 against and no abstentions. Supporters include those of the PSOE, ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Izquierda Confederal (except Geroa Bai), the Aragonese Party (PAR), the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) and the Canary Islands Coalition.
In addition to approving the opinion, the individual votes and the amendments that remained alive after passing through the Budget Committee have been rejected, so the new public accounts have been definitively approved, without the need to return to Congress as no change was introduced .
It should be noted that a plenary session of the Senate has already rejected the five vetoes to the entirety presented by the PP, Vox, Cs, JxCAT and UPN and also rejected the 87 challenges to the sections presented by the groups.
From the Executive, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Carolina Darias, Miquel Iceta, José Luis Escrivá, Diana Morant and Félix Bolaños have accompanied the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, in the last vote of the public accounts of 2023 where Intensive weeks of negotiations with parliamentary groups have come to an end.
MAIN FIGURES AND MEASURES OF THE PGE OF 2023
The 2023 General State Budget (PGE), the most expansive of Spanish democracy, has a spending ceiling of more than 198,000 million euros and incorporates the increase in the salary of civil servants, the updating of pensions with the CPI, more health spending and new aid to families and the unemployed.
The most vulnerable groups will also see the Minimum Vital Income increased by 8.5%, which will benefit 1.2 million people. For its part, the IPREM, the reference index used for the granting of numerous aids, will increase by 3.6% and will stand at 600 euros. In addition, the thermal social bonus rises by 102 million.
For its part, the tax on Corporation Tax will be reduced from 25% to 23% for SMEs with a turnover of less than one million euros. This measure is complemented by the processing of a Law Proposal so that energy companies, financial institutions and large fortunes contribute more with the aim of achieving a fair distribution of the crisis.
What the public accounts do not include are the measures adopted to alleviate the effects of the war, except for the transport bonus for Renfe, Cercanías and Rodalies, which will extend to all of 2023.
