On the second day of voting for the General State Budgets for 2023, two types of rays and sharks won: those of real life, which after the PAN proposal approved by the PS will have the right to a national action plan for the gestation and conservation of species ; and those of Parliament, which grow in size, fed by the crustaceans that the PS gives them.
On the shark side, the PS is shaping the budget that serves it, getting some amendment proposals from opposition parties approved, but without giving much room for manoeuvre. The PS is the owner and lord of these parliamentary waters where other fish move. PAN and Livre, who join the amendment proposals approved by the Socialists, ensure a place in this game, hoping that in the end they will at least maintain abstention. The PAN and Livre lines occupy their space, while the other parties have some (few) gains, without great significance and with low budgetary impact —on the second day, it was IL and PSD.
Bloco and PCP were left at zero on this second day, as was Chega, who continued on his way to have another budget without proposals –André Ventura went so far as to say that if that happens in the next budget, instead of 500 proposals, he will present 600 or 700 (Mariana Mortágua, in the middle of the voting, even asked the president of the Budget and Finance Commission to put together Chega’s proposals because they are all the same: “it increases in volume but not in content”).
PAN and Livre came out like this on the second day with more proposals approved -although they had some setbacks in emblematic measures, but also in the last minute vote changes of the PS (the PAN, for example, had seen it approved but then ended up rejecting the disclosure public of all judicial decisions), and as a glimpse of breaking the finish line with a few more victories. It was from these parties that postponements for the fourth and fifth ballots were pushed, exposing some behind-the-scenes negotiations. Those of the PAN were postponed to Wednesday and those of Livre (including the one related to its emblematic program 3C’s) to Thursday, the last day of voting in the specialty.
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Source: Observadora
