THE Soriana Employers considered this Tuesday that the statements of the The spokesperson for the PSOE executive, Esther Peña, who compared the fiscal pact in Catalonia with the aid for the functioning of Soria, Cuenca and Teruel, “harms the intelligence” of citizens, and stressed that the use of the comparison “is comparing apples to chairs and confuse gymnastics with magnesia.
In this sense, the Federation of Professional Organizations of Soriana (FOES) clarified that the fiscal pact, with all that it implies, grants Catalonia, among others, complete management of your taxes and, with this, the possibility of implementing a “more beneficial” tax policy in its territory. Aid, as defined by its name, consists rather of “grants aimed at alleviating the major problems generated by the depopulation of the productive fabric of the three provinces who receive them: Soria, Cuenca and Teruel.
The employers’ association asked the PSOE spokesman to make statements “serious and well-founded”and considered that the opinion expressed “by Mrs Peña” is a “absurdities resulting from their ignorance” and that is why he assured that his argument lacked logic and was “incoherent and unfortunate”. Faced with this situation, he made himself available to the woman from Burgos to explain to her, “in a very detailed and thorough manner”, the essence and objective of the operating aid “and, in doing so,help her overcome the confusion she finds herself in.
“Scandalous for Mañueco”
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León was particularly harsh in his criticism, Alfonso Fernandez Manueco who considered it “scandalous, an affront and a insult to intelligence that the PSOE equates the differentiated taxation of Soria, Cuenca and Teruel with the Catalan concert, while describing it as “surprising” that this approach “A woman from Burgos defended him” in reference to Peña.
Mañueco recalled that operating aid has European Union approval and regional governments and constitutes a “solidarity measure to combat depopulation”, while the Catalan quota “It is a privilege that breaks the common box.” For this reason, he regretted “the complicit silence” of the PSOE of Castilla y León.
Finally the spokesperson for Soria ¡Ya!, Ángel Ceñacalled it an “insult” that Peña made the comparison. “We at Soriano feel offended and I ask you to apologize.”
