He farcewhich took place this Tuesday at the Congressional Finance Committee, after a chaotic negotiation which lasted almost eight hours, shows the difficult balance of the government to satisfy certain partners confronting each other head on. After midnight, the Executive managed to save part of its tax reform, but after taking contradictory promises to ERC and Junts on the tax on energy companies.
Esquerra, EH Bildu and the BNG announced overnight that they had reached an agreement with the government to extend this tax for another year. An agreement apparently in contradiction with the commitment made with Togetherprecisely, so that this tax on energy companies decreases. Shortly before 1:00 a.m., the Treasury issued a brief statement specifying that maintains its agreement with Junts not tax energy companies that maintain their commitment to effective investment in decarbonization.
The two promises are clearly irreconcilable and show that It is impossible to combine water and oil. A situation which shows the difficulty of uniting the Government’s partners around economic and fiscal measures, at a time when we are also on the verge of a budget negotiation.
The opinion unexpectedly approved by the Finance Commission, in any case, goes to plenary session on Thursday and everything is not assuredwaiting for what Junts will do. Sources from the independence party in any case referred yesterday evening to the press release published early in the morning by the Treasury and seemed to express a certain satisfaction: they maintain that this latest information, which closed a frenetic day, is the key.
The agreement concluded with ERC, Bildu and the BNGHowever, it’s practically smoke because Junts won’t stand for it and does not have the support necessary to move forward. For this, the votes of Podemos would also be necessary and its secretary general, Ione Belarra, has already warned that without Junts the agreement was “wet paper” and that she would only support the tax reform if the energy tax was actually maintained.
