If someone was waiting for a sudden change of opinion of María Jesús Montero On the taxation of the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI), there will be a disappointment. There was expectation for what the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance could say after the clash in front of the cameras and microphones between the spokeswoman of the Executive, Pilar joy (PSOE), and the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díazwhich air in public their differences in the press conference after the Council of Ministers. The person responsible for adding her disagreement and assured that she had learned of the taxation by the press, before the incredulous look of her partner.
In his first appearance before the journalists this Friday at the headquarters of the Andalusian PSOE in Seville, María Jesús Montero, also regional secretary of the party, has defended that a “minimum” part of the workers who perceive the SMI pay the income tax for the first time in history now that it has climbed another 50 eurosuntil it is 1,184 euros per month and asked Yolanda Díaz not to sign up for «Fiscal Populism of the Right», After adding, like the PP, he has presented law propositions in Congress to reverse the elimination of tax exemption.
In his work of “pedagogy” – what has repeated several times – Montero has pointed out that, after the applied ascent, The SMI is a “decent salary”which entails that “we must equate both rights and duties” to their perceptors. «I want to value the dignity of the SMI rise, it is a fruit amount that corresponds to 60% of the average salary. We are talking about a decent salary for families that have more needs in the whole of Spain that allows not to be a subsistence income ».
«With 735 euros per month – reparked in fourteen payments – families could barely subsist. Then it made sense that the suspended salary was accompanied by a total tax exemption. If we consider that the government pursues that the SMI is not subsistence, but one according to the basic needs of a family, they will understand that this also means having rights and duties, ”Montero has continued with its pedagogy exercise. Actually, the Andalusian PSOE had summoned the press to inform the result of a meeting held with The General Secretary of Workers’ Commissions in Andalusia, Nuria López, to exchange impressions about the opposition work to the government of Juanma Moreno (PP). All this was in the background before the new trains clash among the executive members.
“Scarcely 20% of those who perceive the SMI will have to pay, who are singles without children”
Against what her governing partner raises, the Minister of Finance argues to pay the income declaration tax to a part of these employees «is left and progressive»Because it allows to maintain basic services such as public health and education, on which the welfare state pivot.
To defend her proposal, the vice president has insisted that 80% of the perceptors “will not have to make any contribution to public coffers” and that “Scarcely 20% will have to pay” and that these are “usually” “single people who have no children in charge”. A “minimum part” of those who receive this compensation “will have to contribute to public policies,” he added. «We all have to start making an effort»He stressed.
«Yolanda Díaz will have read from ‘a’ to ‘Z’ the report»
In her reply to the Minister of Labor and a reference to add, Montero has questioned that he did not know the intention of the Ministry of Finance to make a part of the employees that pThey will collect 1,184 euros per month. Although he did not want to enter “controversy” with his partner, he said, with some irony, that he had no “doubt” that Díaz “The report of the expert Committee will have read from the ‘A'” which collected the taxation of the SMI.
The journalists asked Montero if he had spoken with Yolanda Díaz after the disagreement for this measure, but eluded the answer. He just said that “The dialogue will have to be and remain fluid,” but that the coalition executive “is also firm in the defense of its principles and its values.”
The ‘number two’ in Pedro Sánchez’s team tried to reduce the tension of recent days and predicted that «there is coalition government for a while“And” the legislature will exhaust and will do it with its partner “, a phrase that the president of the Executive and leader of the PSOE pronounces.
For the moment, One and the other are enrolled in their position. Time will say which of the two left forces will win this ideological battle that has eclipsed with a storm cloud the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary.
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