Can insisted that he would overturn the royal decree which approves the imposed to the bank if the Government leaves aside energy companies, as they agreed in the amendments to this royal decree, which are currently being considered in Congress. The deputy Javier Sanchez Serna made it clear this Saturday that he will not be able to support it if the government eliminates the imposed to energies.
The Podemos MP wanted to make it clear that he would reject the corporate tax reform – where the government wants to introduce its tax reform – “if it includes the abolition of the tax on energy companies”, he said. -he declared in an interview with TVE.
“We have always kept one thing very clear: the four votes of Podemos in Congress had to move forward and not backward in this legislature. Corporate tax reform can be interesting, but you can’t fool people. This cannot be done at the cost of eliminating the tariffs that we imposed on energy companies during the last legislature,” he stressed.
After recalling that companies like Naturgy or Iberdrola increased their profits in 2023 by almost 20%, the “violet” deputy stressed that, “in accordance with the principle of progressive taxation” imposed by the Constitution, these “extraordinary” profits must be imposed.
“We understand that the PSOE, which governs, must negotiate with all the forces, including with the PNV, which we know represents many Iberdrola, but it must also negotiate with Podemos and with the left of the House” , he recalled. . Sanchez Serna.
At this point, he denounced that the government did not discuss with them the abolition of a tax which, he stressed, served to raise funds which can now be used, for example “to face to disasters like DANA”.
In this context, he added that it seems that the PSOE in this legislature “is more comfortable with the proposals made by the PNV or Junts” than with those of Podemos. “They have to choose,” he added, before adding that “sometimes you cannot please everyone in politics”, but you can “reach points of balance”.
“What’s happening is that it’s not a balance point that we can get into and, of course, if it stays that way, even though we will talk and negotiate, they won’t be able to count on all four voice of Podemos,” he said.
Concerning the changes that the Government wants to introduce in the banking tax, he indicated that he had to study them, but that for him the most serious is the elimination of the tax on energy companies.
Asked if he believes that the PSOE could be tempted to present these amendments with the PP if he sees that they do not give him the figures with the investiture partners, the Podemos deputy replied that ” it could be” and it wouldn’t. this is the first time that “bipartisanship” is found in this legislature, alluding to the renewal of the CGPJ.
