Podemos has proposed to the PSOE that the Ministry of Finance subsidize 14.4% of the final price of the basic shopping basket, that is, basic food items to which a reduction of the price is being applied since January 1. VAT. With this proposal, the party led by Ione Belarra seeks to make these products cheaper to the level they were in February 2022, when the war broke out in Ukraine.
It is a new approach that arises after Podemos put on the table in mid-January to cap food prices and received a negative response from the socialist wing of the Government. After the CPI data related to the shopping basket known yesterday, the purple formation proposes to use a model similar to the one applied to fuels until December 31 for basic foods, that is, a bonus that would be effective at pay at the cash desk and that would appear on the ticket.
“The measure would have a significantly greater impact on low-income households, which are those who allocate a greater part of their income to food, and would reduce the price of products such as milk, oil, eggs, meat, fish, fruit or bread. ”; indicate Podemos sources.
The purples also propose that the Food Information and Control Agency, a body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, monitor prices on a weekly basis, with special attention to large stores, and impose fines if companies increase their profit margins. In case of repeated infraction, the consideration would become similar to that of a tax crime, they raise.
In the document sent to the PSOE, Podemos launches to the PSOE that, in the medium term, the Food Chain Law will be improved and a Price Regulation and Control Commission may be established, "in order to improve transparency and develop recommendations to regulate prices in strategic sectors”.
