The PP only lacked yesterday to say "we already said it", when the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced as the star measure of his anti-crisis plan that he will approve on Saturday the reduction of VAT on electricity from 10% to 5%, which was one of the measures included in the document that Alberto Núñez Feijóo sent him when the previous decree law was being debated, and that the Government rejected.
The spokeswoman for the Popular Group in Congress and general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, therefore invited Sánchez to continue correcting and heeding the other measures contained in the proposal, from the reduced VAT for hydrocarbons, or the Income tax reduction for medium and low incomes.
Sánchez's rectification, according to Gamarra, "arrives late and is forced" by events, but he stressed that "we already know Sánchez" who does things, "not forced by how badly the Spaniards are having it, but by how badly The President of the Government is going through it after the electoral setback last Sunday”.
The popular spokesperson considers that despite everything, it is a small step, "which is late and has already cost around 200 million euros that the Spanish have paid for the VAT on electricity and that they could have saved if they had lowered from the first moment”.
For this reason, he asks the President of the Government to also "analyse, study and apply" the rest of the "interesting, positive and with broad social support" measures of the PP's economic plan, because "they are good for Spain and the Spanish", as deflate personal income tax for the middle and lower classes, eliminate all superfluous spending and undertake efficient management of European funds.
Cuica Gamarra stressed, in statements in Congress, that, during the Conference of Presidents of La Palma and being president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo had already asked the Chief Executive "the need" to lower taxes on the Spanish . “Sánchez promised to do it, but he did not keep his word”, and he is doing it now because of what has happened in Andalusia, in an attempt to take back the initiative, that the Spanish should know, they say in the PP, what Feijóo already asked.
Gamarra recalled that Feijóo sent Sánchez an economic plan "with a range of measures" that were rejected by the Government, among which was the reduction of VAT on electricity and gas to 5%, and for this reason he considers that "it is unfortunate that an electoral setback had to occur for the President of the Government to react and take a measure that will be very positive for the Spanish people, but which confirms that the measures adopted are not being adequate”.
The general secretary of the PP, given what happened, asks Sánchez for "a rectification of his disastrous economic policy", to make "a proposal to amend" and assume "the proposals that we have been asking him to carry out for months".
