He makes a flag of his fiscal policy in full controversy over the critical report of the ECB on the new tax on banks and electricity companies
Pedro Sánchez immersed himself this Saturday in the pre-election race before the municipal and regional elections next May in a favorable terrain –Vitoria (Álava)– and supported by those who continue to have a significant symbolic weight in the PSOE, the Basque Socialists. The election of the Alava capital has a special significance for the President of the Government. At a time when most of the polls, except those of the CIS, point to a future at the polls that is at least complicated for him and his family, the polls in the Basque Country give the PSE a chance of snatching the Vitoria Mayor’s Office from the PNV.
In this scenario of more airy expectations, Sánchez took the opportunity to reclaim his policies in the face of the crisis derived from the ravages of the war and the inflationary escalation, a recurring message to confront against the PP but that acquires a new scope in the face of the setback received from the European Central Bank (ECB) to the exceptional tax on banking promoted by its Executive. And after the diatribe with his vice president, the former minister of the PP Luis de Guindos.
Before the nearly half a thousand people gathered at the Frontón Lakua, Sánchez made an effort to break down all the measures adopted by his Government, to explain the context and charge against the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The Secretary General of the Socialists defended the need to defend the Welfare State and fight against “inequality”. And, above all, he denounced the calls of the “chorus of neoliberalism” to lower taxes. Against them, he opposed his fiscal strategy of reducing specific taxes such as VAT and charging those with the highest incomes and energy and banking entities the weight of “helping” also to counteract the hardships of “the middle and working class”, ‘leit motiv’ of all his interventions from the turn to the left printed to his performance.
Dismount Feijóo
Sánchez stressed that you receive “much more than you pay for” and gave as an example, again, that a heart transplant costs 90,000 euros in the public health system and that the same operation in the United States, with a private model, It would be around a million and a half dollars. The president, who did not expressly allude to Feijóo at any time, did stress that “today’s PP is the same as yesterday’s”, the image that the socialists strive to project to try to dismantle the image of moderation of the president of the popular and compare it to the unceremonious opposition that marked the mandate of his predecessor, Pablo Casado.
And as usual, Sánchez rounded off this thesis on the continuity of the tactics of the party that heads the opposition with the attempt to discredit the alleged solvency in the management of the Galician leader. Thus, he delved into wounds that the PSOE believes are open, such as the dissonances between the harshness of the PP in Spain and the more comprehensive position of its European peers on issues such as the gas cap.
An argument intended to oppose what he called “solidarity socialism” to neoliberalism, incapable – he denounced – of managing this crisis with the aim of wiping out and correcting inequalities. Sánchez claimed “useful politics” and called for “taking care of socialism” as the only ideology that seeks “fair solutions” for citizens.
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