Someone said that doing one gram is worth more than a kilo. Given PP’s strategy, it is easy to conclude that the party’s words weigh on the tones before Pablo Casado and very soon Alberto Nunez Feijo, and yet the value of their actions is small. There is a distance between the village and the real will or practical translation that the popular ones rarely want to cross. At least when it comes to the National War Response Plan. Dozens of bad words and no actions came to the table. Criticism and complaining about problems are one thing, and contributing to the search for solutions is another.
The decision of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday to mitigate the effects of the inflation spiral is not just the text of the government. From the outset, the president said this would be a “dynamic and open” plan for parliamentary groups, social agents and autonomous communities. And both in the round of consultations between the government delegation led by President’s Minister Felix Bolanos and in the groups represented in Parliament, as well as in the sector consultations since the La Palma Conference of Presidents, which have contributed the most and the least.
There were many proposals from the groups that were handed over to the government, with the exception of only PP and Vox, who did not even try to sit down at the table with the Sanchez ministers to find a solution to the crisis, such as the agrarian sector, which now worries him so much. From the community this was done by the communities of Valencia, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Navarre, the Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha or La Rioja, among others. One contribution has never been made to Galicia, which is a society chaired by the closest leader of the PP.
From the information provided by La Moncloa, it can be concluded that neither Madrid, nor Castilla y Leon, nor Catalonia have put forward initiatives that have even been studied. Moreover, the cities of Ceuta and Melilla did not. It so happens that Feio and Isabel Diaz Ayuso were the most militant against the National War Response Plan. The first was limited to the horrific shaking of the general tax cuts, and contrary to the direct meaning of the text agreed upon at the Presidential Conference in La Palma, that Pedro Sanchez had made an obvious commitment in this direction.
The statement said: “Measures to be included in the plan will develop and reinforce what has been announced so far, such as tax cuts to mitigate the impact of energy prices on taxes paid by households and companies, and more. Increased. The Spanish government and the Autonomous Communities share the determination to protect our companies, our industry and our citizens. ”
But among the “others who can grow,” PP and Feio understand that Sanchez made a commitment to a generalized tax cut that was not increased and that he did not put autonomy on the table either. Translation: “Sanchez should not be trusted.” This is a mantra that is repeated these days popularExcept for Andalusian Bonilla from Andalusia, who welcomed the government-approved measures in anticipation of a detailed reading of the 170-page resolution, which was published this Wednesday in the BOE.
The Government understands that what has been approved has included requirements such as support for electricity-intensive companies proposed by Asturias, support for the deployment of energy from renewable sources (Extremadura and Valencia); Simplification of procedures related to renewable energy projects (La Rioja); Discounts on the final price of certain energy products (Extremadura and Asturias); Facilitate the development of floating photovoltaic power plants and reduce administrative burdens (La Rioja); Exemption from port taxes for the fishing sector (Balearic Islands); New line of guarantees and deficiencies Covid lines (Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Valencia, Canary Islands, Navarre and Basque Country) or assistance to the agriculture and fisheries sector (Extremadura).
Requests for deferral of social security contributions and the concept of joint collection in the fisheries sector (Comunitat Valenciana) were also met; Restriction of housing rent renewal (Balearic Islands and Valencia); That the recipient of the IMV is automatically a beneficiary of a social award and facilitates the homologation and validation of foreign degrees and research in non-university education (Balearic Islands) and the extension of the temporary scope for revision of public works prices. (Valencia and Castilla-La Stein).
Almost all of the proposals, yes, are from socialist governments, although the Basque country and other autonomies such as Andalusia have argued for a gas price split with the rest of the electricity market price, and Sanchez has managed to turn it around. The latter is already known in the European Council as the “Iberian Exception”.
La Moncloa denies that a unilateral response was approved, and endorses La Palma’s statement, which Feio calls for so much and left black on white: “The plan will be configured through a dialogue that the government will develop with the government. Autonomous communities, parliamentary forces and social agents, considering the most vulnerable groups. This was said in the fourth paragraph of the text, which was agreed upon by the executive and the 17 autonomies, and which apparently neglected both Galicia and Madrid, as neither the dialogue was conducted nor their own proposals were sent.
Nor did he convey to the popular Congress group his concerns to the government, which in La Moncloa they describe as “no interest” in influencing fuel prices, the transport sector, or the tax cuts that many value. The royal decree included an extraordinary reduction in the price of gasoline (0.20 euros / liter), a reduction in VAT on electricity (up to 10%), a reduction in the special tax on electricity (up to 0.05%) and a suspension of taxes on the cost of energy production, except for the transport sector 450 million euros in direct assistance.
Conversely, other formations participated in the offering of solutions, as was the case with the ERC, which, among other measures, offered to use the rate on “profits from the sky”, reduce VAT on domestic gas, and promote self-consumption. Temporarily, apply a direct temporary discount of 20 cents per liter on fuel, reactivate all measures in the “social shield”, increase the scope of the IMV or ban the dismissal for reasons that are directly or indirectly related. War in Ukraine. The decree eventually included the renewal of the mechanism for reducing the overpayment of the electricity market caused by the high price of natural gas in international markets (“benefits have fallen from the sky”), the extension and renewal of social bonds for electricity. Social bond, ban on dismissal for reasons related to the invasion of Ukraine in companies receiving state aid from this plan or increase the minimum subsistence income by 15% for 3 months.
Citizens, in turn, offered temporary tax cuts; Promoting renewable energy investments; Take measures to improve energy storage and take actions to increase electricity interconnection and gas pipeline capacity. What the government has approved includes a monthly refund of the hydrocarbon tax, measures instead of a quarterly, electricity system tax cuts worth $ 1,800 million, special-purpose renewable energy incentives (RECORE) or capacity measure measures. Increase accessibility for network and operators.
The PNV expressed the need to take measures to protect electrotechnical industrial activities, to expand the minimum subsistence income or to guarantee that the measures include a reserve of competence for the communities and provincial councils in the area to which they belong. . The RDL approved this Tuesday was about cutting electricity bills by 80%, helping with € 65 million to offset CO2 emission costs, and protecting 225 million industries by cutting taxes by 600% for 600 power-intensive customers. This, in addition to protecting the competence of the Basque and Navarre institutions to implement measures to reduce fuel prices.
And Bildu temporarily and exceptionally offered to use the direct temporary 20 cents discount on fuel to restore and extend the scope of the reduction impact to “falling from the sky” benefits, specific measures aimed at re-energizing industrial industrial users. All measures taken in the “social shield” and, like other groups, increase the scope of the IMV and prohibit dismissal for reasons directly or indirectly related to the war in Ukraine. All very similar to what BNG also sent to the government.
PP? Zero sentences. Everything else is a story of the rest of the party and the opposition strategy, which in the case of the PP is built only on headlines, half-truths and critiques, accompanied by no practical decisions. Isabel Dias Ayuso from Madrid has already said that anything that does not reduce taxes is a “waste of time”, which can be an insult to farmers, ranchers, fishermen, IMV recipients or other groups who receive direct assistance in some cases and others, guarantees and ICO credits. .
And Feio, until Sanchez fulfills his word about what he says he signed at La Palma, that he does not have his support. Then, yes, he says PP is a state party and that he is coming to Madrid to restore the consensus that is needed. For the good of Spain. Always for Spain and not for the Spaniards. So they continue.
Source: El Diario
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