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The PP asks Sanchez to lower VAT on gas to 5% as he did with electricity to return the “extra money”

File – The president of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feijoo; the spokesman for the Popular Party in the Senate, Javier Maroto and the PP senator, Rafael Hernando, in a file image. – Marta Fernandez Jara – Europa Press – Archive

MADRID, Aug. 31 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The PP spokesman in the Senate, Javier Maroto, has assured that they will ask the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, to lower the VAT on gas to 5%, as he already did with electricity despite “laughing” at the proposal that he transferred the main opposition party. In his opinion, the “extra money” collected by inflation should go to the “citizens’ house and not to the Government’s treasury.”

This was stated today in the Senate, after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, where he reiterated his statements on TVE and Telecinco this morning, collected by Europa Press. Thus, Maroto has announced that the leader of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, will propose in the next face-to-face meeting with Sanchez in the Senate that the Government adopt this VAT reduction on gas from 21% to 5%. In addition, he has insisted that he has to lower personal income tax to face the three months with the CPI above 10%.

“The PP was the one who proposed the 5% reduction in electricity and they laughed at the proposal that they ended up accepting,” Maroto pointed out, recalling the intervention of the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, when in the Senate she spoke of “cosmetic” measures .

The ‘popular’ spokesman has reiterated that Feijoo is looking for a “serene” debate that, contrary to what the Government says, has given him support when energy saving measures were addressed at the European Council or at the last conference of regional presidents. “There are steps in the right direction that Europe is taking,” he added.

Maroto has criticized that Sanchez announced as a “first star measure” to save in the context of the war in Ukraine that the Spanish had to take off their ties or turn off the lights in the shop windows. In this sense, he added that the president is “uncomfortable” in debating with Feijoo and, for this reason, he is “in tow”.

“It bothers us a lot when he says that all the problems are due to Putin’s war, there are problems that we have dragged on from before,” he commented, pointing out that the CPI in Spain is above that of other countries such as Germany, Italy and France, which has repercussions in basic products such as the shopping basket or school textbooks.

In his opinion, the Executive is rewarding “collecting, collecting and collecting” based on VAT, despite the fact that “no government in Europe” maintains the gas tax at 21%. In addition, Maroto has maintained that Sanchez contradicts himself when he proposes saving measures and then uses the Falcon plane for his trips.

Maroto has supported “medium-term” measures such as the construction of the gas pipeline between Spain and France, discussed yesterday between Sanchez and the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, because it is necessary to be in solidarity with this country given its greater dependence on Russia. Having said this, he has reiterated that the PP also wants to bet on “safe nuclear power plants”, as other countries are doing.

Later, at a press conference from the Senate, the ‘popular’ spokesman in the Upper House has specified that the PP “celebrates” that Sanchez wants to debate with Feijoo, insisting on the “suspicion” and “insecurity” of the president before the appointment .

“We are delighted”, Maroto has influenced, who has nevertheless stressed that the PP believes that the debate “must be more complete” and not be “limited” to energy issues.

Likewise, he has guaranteed that the PP “is going to make proposals” and that the “attitude” of the ‘popular’ leader “is going to surprise the PSOE” because it will not “insult the adversary”. “Simple and effective solutions, common sense, this is how Feijoo is going to approach the session”, he added. “We hope that Sanchez comes with a very small folder of insults and a very large folder of proposals”, he has riveted.

Source: Europa Press

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