The aim of the measure, which was negotiated among others by the two sides of the Executive and which, according to Pablo Iglesias on Radio Euskadi, has been proposed by United We Can, is to curb the rise in shopping basket inflation.
The two parties that together form the government of Spain, the PSOE and United We Can, they are negotiating a series of economic measures to cope with the price increase; in this context, United we can has suggested direct assistance from a check of between 200 and 300 euros, so about seven to eight million families of the Spanish state alleviate the impact of inflation on the shopping cart. The former leader of United We Can Pablo Iglesias announced this on ‘Boulevard’ on Radio Euskadi on Thursday.
“A check of between 200 and 300 euros is proposed for seven or eight million families,” specified Iglesias, who, regarding the package of measures negotiated by PSOE and Unidas Podemos and expected to be ready by the end of the year will be, he has pointed out that “in this case, in a coalition government, some will move more to the left, others more to the right”.
Díaz refers to the major distributors
In this line, Yolanda Díaz, second Vice President of the Government of Spain and also a member of Unidas Podemos, has found “more than doubtful” that the major distributors are not taking any action to reduce the price of the shopping basket, and has also ensured that when the Spanish government takes action, as it has done in the case of energy, ” prices decline.”
According to Díaz, “the biggest problem” in Spain, “next to rents and mortgages, is that Spanish families simply cannot guarantee quality and healthy food simply because the purchase price is impossible.” As he recalled, he has been pushing for measures to reduce the price of the shopping cart since September, with measures ranging “from agreements with major distributors to many other issues.”
“VAT has nothing to do with the proposals that are precisely related to people’s lives,” he stressed, before stressing that this crisis “should be paid for with the contribution of those who have the most. In this case, the large distributors, concentrating power in very few hands,” he said.
For Díaz, “it doesn’t make sense” what “the economic right and the PP always propose, which is to lower taxes; it would not solve the problem we have with the shopping basket and what we have to guarantee with different measures , are shopping baskets with all kinds of quality products “, he says.
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Source: EITB
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