The convoluted political event that last Monday took the vote on the so-called fiscal package until dawn in Congress has caused some important details to have gone unnoticed. Details that with the passage of hours have been revealed in their real magnitude.
One of them is that The PSOE did not support the amendment that it had agreed with Sumar weeks before to end the special tax regime for listed real estate investment companies (socimi). Nor did they support the amendment (also agreed upon between them) that opened the door to raise taxation of private health insurance.
That of the SOCIMI and that of private insurance were part of a battery of fiscal measures that those of Yolanda Díaz had agreed with those of Pedro Sánchez within the framework of the negotiations that the PSOE has held in recent days with the different groups in Congress on this matter.
When the socialists agreed with Junts and the PNV to drop the tax on energy companies, Sumar warned that they would vote against any measure that would mean a reduction in income and a step backwards in justice and in the tax rebalancing between incomes. of labor (which bear most of the fiscal pressure) and those of capital.
The PSOE and Sumar closed an agreement (which included the new taxation of SOCIMIs and other measures, such as a luxury tax or higher VAT for tourist rentals) to recover their alliance in Congress. But that alliance has finally been broken after the socialists did not support two of these measures.
Sumar chooses not to clash with the PSOE, for now
The tax reform has always represented one of the greatest ideological divisions between Sánchez and the alternative left since the launch of the first progressive coalition government. The clashes over taxes and their rebalancing have been many and notable, and when taxation has not monopolized the spotlight, the division has remained hidden.
After this last milestone (the breakdown by the PSOE of the fiscal agreement reached with its government partner), Sumar has chosen not to go to the open clash with Sánchez’s, at least until the vote on the fiscal package passes in the plenary session that will be held next Thursday (which Sumar plans to support, although the negotiations remain open at this time to various parties).
In this plenary session, those of Díaz They will carry some of their amendments alive and they do not rule out staging in this debate their discomfort with your partner for not supporting two of the most important agreed measures. This Tuesday the spokesperson for Sumar’s parliamentary group in Congress, Verónica Martínez Barberolaunched two messages, with a moderate tone, directed at the socialists.
Martínez Barbero: “We are not going to be moved by real estate interests”
“They are not going to move us or real estate interests nor those of large companies that do not align with the interests of a strong State favorable to the popular classes,” he stated. In the previous days, some of the most important SOCIMIs in the Ibex have threatened to take their activity outside of Spain.
Sources familiar with the parliamentary negotiations assured those days Public that These companies had called some groups so that they would not support the fiscal package agreed between the PSOE and Sumar in Congress, calls that would also have been made to some sectors of the Government.
Sumar warns that Congress’s fiscal package does not satisfy “the reform that the country needs”
Furthermore, the spokesperson warned that “the legislature is going to be very long and citizens are interested in that the agreements we reached are fulfilled“However, this Tuesday Díaz’s team chose not to raise the tone against the PSOE, despite the fact that it involves the breaking of an agreement unilaterally by the majority partner.
The leaders of Sumar have also assured that “The tax reform that our country needs is pending“, and they have aimed to achieve it beyond what is approved (or not) next Thursday in Congress. From the beginning those of Díaz have defended that, although the fiscal package negotiated in the Lower House could be positive to rebalance a little the tax balance, these measures did not even remotely satisfy their objectives for a major reform.
#breakdown #PSOE #fiscal #pact #Sumar #confronts #partners #Government #coalition
