The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has called an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers next Saturday, June 25, to approve the decree that will extend for three more months the measures in force to deal with the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and will include new ones.
The spokeswoman for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, has reported this call at the press conference after the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, while explaining that the ordinary meeting of the Cabinet next Tuesday will be moved to Monday by next week's NATO summit.
The Government is finalizing the measures that the new decree will include, since those approved so far expire on June 30.
Among these is the reduction of 20 euro cents per liter of fuel, direct aid to sectors such as transport, livestock and dairy, and the prohibition of raising rents above 2%, as well as the 15% increase in minimum vital income, or the increase in the beneficiaries of the electricity bonus.
Given this approval, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, is asking for the inclusion of initiatives such as an aid check for 300 euros for the most vulnerable families and a subsidy for the transport subscription.
United We Can has also proposed that a 10-point increase in corporate tax be included for electricity companies, up to 35%. A proposal that has been criticized by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, who has agreed this Tuesday to impose this charge, but not on the nominal corporate tax but on "the real yield" and with application from of fiscal year 2023.
Díaz has also assured that United We Can and the PSOE will reach an agreement about the measures. "We are negotiating within the coalition. We are two different spaces, with different views. We are proposing measures that have to do with the impact of inflation on people's lives", said the second vice president.
However, Díaz has recognized that there is "little time" until Saturday to bring positions closer. The extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers has been convened for the day after the end of the summit of heads of State and Government of the EU in which the evolution of the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine will also be analyzed.
