The Council of Ministers approved an agreement on Tuesday which rejects the requirement formulated by the Senate on 8 October for the Government to revoke the disconformity related to the processing of an amendment approved by the Upper Chamber.
Specifically, it is an amendment to the Draft Law modifying the laws on Air Navigation and Air Security establishing the award of an extraordinary credit to subsidize regular air traffic in the amount of 1,200 million euros. The Government informed the Bureau of Congress of their disagreement with it as it means increasing budgetary expenditure, referring to Article 134.6 of the Constitution, which establishes that proposals or amendments entailing changes to budgetary revenue require acceptance by the Executive.
Following this decision, the Senate stated a conflict of attributions with the Government and demanded that it revoke the disagreement.
The Council of Ministers has decided to reject it as it considers the veto power corresponds only to the Executive, which furthermore has competence in budgetary execution.
Therefore, it is constitutionally inadmissible for the Senate to initiate a conflict of attributions procedure to prevent the Government from exercising a competence it has been granted by the Constitution.
