MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has defended the need for “fiscal co-responsibility” and has insisted once again that banks and energy companies have a “moral duty” to now return to society what they received during the pandemic as a result of the government action.
Before the plenary session of the Senate, in which he appeared to report on the measures adopted in relation to the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, Sánchez highlighted the Government’s response during the pandemic and the measures that allowed it to be overcome , particularly those of an economic nature such as the 30,000 million in aid to the private sector.
Now, he has defended, “the lesson has to be the same, the answer has to be the same, the appropriate line is fiscal co-responsibility.”
The president has stressed that “a part of the private sector” that is benefiting “in an extraordinary way” from the effects of the war, among which he has expressly cited banks and energy companies, “now have the moral duty to return to society in times of difficulty a part of what they received during the pandemic”.
On the other hand, Sánchez has once again insisted that in the current context “it is not reasonable for a kind of indiscriminate fiscal dispute to be established downwards, which in the end what it is going to do is weaken what we have strengthened with so much effort, our welfare state”, while underlining that the management of the pandemic “was the greatest co-governance exercise in history”.
