MADRID Dec. 14 () –
The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has said that until a tax on energy companies is approved by law, as agreed with the PSOE, she will not sit down to negotiate the General State Budgets (PGE) with the Government.
To gain the support of the ‘purples’ for the tax reform, Vice President María Jesús Montero convened the parliamentary groups of the investiture bloc on Wednesday to work on a bill that would make the tax on energy companies permanent. But neither PNV and Junts, whose votes are essential to approve any regulation, attended, nor was any law agreed to create a new tax, but rather the Treasury promised only a decree law to extend the current rate, which is not a tax.
For Belarra, the absence of these two groups and the promise of an extension decree is a breach of the agreement sealed with the PSOE, a party that believes that “it is not making enough efforts” to reach the consensus necessary to approve the tax.
THE DECREE LAW THAT HACIENDA HAS PROMISED IS NOT VALID
“We gave our support, we fulfilled our part of the agreement and now the PSOE needs to fulfill its part, which is that there has to be a tax on energy companies (…) We need a reliable partner on the other side,” Belarra stated in statements to RNE’s ‘Parliament’, collected by Europa Press.
In this context, the deputy has asked herself what sense there is in closing a Budget agreement with the PSOE “if they have not even complied with something as small, which may seem minor, like the tax on energy companies.”
“If they have not complied with that small agreement, how are they going to comply with lowering rents or truly agreeing on an arms embargo with Israel, which is committing the worst genocide in a century?” Belarra said, recalling that those are the other two conditions of their training to support the Budgets.
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