Bendodo defends the current model with fiscal autonomy of the Autonomous Communities, after the CIS survey with data on paying the same taxes
MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has accused this Wednesday the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, of not having a plan in the face of the energy crisis, but only “disjointed measures”. In addition, he has warned that if the Government’s intention is to act as in the pandemic, it is to “tremble”.
This has been pronounced a day after the Council of Ministers approved new measures, such as extending regulated gas heating rates to all households and expanding the electricity bonus. Vice President Teresa Ribera has not ruled out further measures to combat the current energy crisis “depending on how circumstances evolve.”
In an interview on Telecinco, which Europa Press has collected, Bendodo has stressed that all the measures aimed at “lowering the pressure on the bill for Spanish families will have the support of the PP”. That yes, he has said that they must be done in a “serious, rigorous and effective” way, and “not every 15 days a new measure”.
According to Bendodo, the Government’s proposals on energy matters are “disjointed” and “a decree repeals the previous one.” In his opinion, this behavior shows that “he does not have a plan” to fight the energy crisis as, according to what he has said, Alberto Núñez Feijóo does have and has sent Moncloa in writing.
“Yesterday President Sánchez said in the debate in the Senate that he was going to manage the way out of the economic and energy crisis just as he managed the Covid crisis. That is to start trembling,” he emphasized, to insist that the PP ” misses a serious plan” in terms of energy and not measures “by drops”.
When asked about the data from the CIS about the fact that 71% of Spaniards want taxes to be the same in all the CCAAA, Bendodo has indicated that Spain is a “decentralized State” with autonomies that “works” and has added that there are taxes for all Spaniards and others within the fiscal autonomy of each community.
“The model works,” he emphasized in an interview on TVE, to add that it has been shown that lowering taxes activates consumption, raises more and can be invested in improving public services. As he has stressed, “lowering taxes” is in the DNA of the PP and “it is not a question of ideology” but of “common sense”.
