The president has stressed that in “times of fear and uncertainty” the political leaders “of the Government and the opposition” have “the obligation to give certainty”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has asked this Saturday for “a clear response from the PP” on whether he supports the Iberian solution to limit the price of energywhich happens to meet the gas, as well as for other of his latest proposals, such as raising pensions and the minimum wage according to the CPI.
At a PSOE rally on the Paseo del Espolón in the city of Soria, Sánchez has stressed that in “times of fear and uncertainty” the political leaders “of the Government and the opposition” have “the obligation to give certainty”, for which he has urged the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to clarify whether he supports capping the price of gas, revaluing pensions and the minimum wage, and increasing taxes on large energy companies, banks and fortunes. In fact, Sánchez has insisted on talking about “social and fiscal justice” and that the large financial and energy entities, as well as the great fortunes, “put their shoulders to the wheel” in these circumstances.
Yes, the socialists defend it “while others do not know what they think because they do not position themselves, in that calculated ambiguity”, added the PSOE general secretary, who, however, has concluded: “At this point in history we already know very what the Popular Party thinks and what interests it defends and what interests it does not defend, which are those of the social majority in this country”.
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Sánchez has also urged the PP to look towards the United Kingdom and see the “consequences of its policies” of lowering taxes. “Public policies have to be financed with public income and that is everyone’s taxes and, especially, those who have the most”, Sáchez stressed during the public event in which he participated in the city of Soria. The president has insisted that his government has “an objective, method and commitment” so that “no one is left behind” in the current economic and social crisis derived, he said, from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which has caused the rise in prices and energy.
In this sense, he recalled that the Executive has approved ten crisis response packages since June and has advocated drawing lessons from “these hard years” in which those who asked for more support from the Welfare State during the pandemic , now “they cry out for indiscriminate tax cuts”. “We are going to defend the Welfare State because it is what unites a nation socially and territorially”, Sánchez remarked, in response to those who “from the right” say that “money is better in the pockets of citizens” who value what it costs, for example, a heart transplant with a “public, universal and free health” as is the case in Spain, which stands at 90,000 euros, compared to the million and a half dollars that must be paid in the United States . Or the 6,000 euros cost per student in public education and the 9,000 in university studies. “I want a country in which citizens get a mortgage for buying an apartment or a car, but not for taking their children to school,” said Sánchez in Soria, where he was accompanied by the general secretary of training in Castile and Leon, Luis Tudanca.