He demands that his partner agree to cap food prices and the rise in variable mortgages
MADRID, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has explained that “the conditions are not met” for the members of United We Can in the Executive to participate in the summit with Morocco, after the turn of the PSOE and the president, Pedro Sánchez, on the Occidental Sahara.
This has been indicated in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, when asked about the reason for the absence of the ministers of the minority partner at the High Level Meeting (RAN) between Spain and Morocco, which is held this Thursday in Rabat .
The also leader of Podemos has indicated that, in her case, she had no issues to discuss on the agenda of this summit, but at the same time she has recognized that for her political space there are no conditions for them to attend this international meeting.
And as a fundamental element, as Belarra has highlighted, it is the turn that the socialist wing of the Government gave to the traditional position on the Sahara that Spain had maintained, both with executives from the PSOE and the PP; and that Unidas Podemos does not share.
Unidas Podemos expressed its direct rejection of the letter from the president last March endorsing the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, believing that it was the most “solid and realistic” basis for resolving the conflict.
In fact, the confederal space stressed its commitment to the self-determination of the Saharawi people, through a referendum, defending that it is the way to solve the conflict, in compliance with UN resolutions.
For his part, Sánchez travels to Rabat this Wednesday to attend said summit with the aim of laying the foundations for a new relationship between the two countries in which periodic crises are a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, and also questioned by the increase in BBVA benefits by 38%, the head of Social Rights has stressed that Unidas Podemos has been working exhaustively throughout the legislature to carry out an ambitious and progressive tax reform.
He has also pointed out that these extraordinary benefits in times of crisis reveal, in his opinion, that it is necessary to take market intervention measures, such as stopping the rise in variable mortgages and food prices, to “balance the balance.”
For Belarra, said intervention by the State, as was done with the cap on gas, is the most effective way to protect the public in the face of the difficulties of the crisis, and he trusts that these data “will open the eyes” of the PSOE to apply these proposals. “Many very privileged people are making gold and this government cannot allow it”, he has settled.