Calviño invites PP, Vox and Ciudadanos to clarify what they are going to cut if the only thing they propose is to lower taxes

The PP accuses the vice president of "ruining" the country" and she points to the British economy, which is "sinking" with "traced" recipes

MADRID, 28 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Vice President of Economic Affairs and Transformation, Nadia Calviño, has invited the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos this Wednesday in Congress to clarify "what they are going to cut from the Welfare State", given their demands to lower taxes.

"If it is your only proposal, tell us what you are going to cut from the Welfare State. Education? Health? Pensions? Say it clearly if that is your plan," Calviño cried out in his speech at the control session to the Government in Congress, after facing questions from the three opposition groups, whom he has accused of "wanting to dismantle the Welfare State".

After the questions of PP and Vox, Calviño has responded to the president of Cs, Inés Arrimadas, who asked for a new reduction in personal income tax, that the support measures for households and companies during the price crisis have led to a mobilization of 30,000 million euros.

"Where do you think that money comes from? What do you think taxes are for if it is not to finance the Welfare State?", he argued, clarifying in any case that the coalition government "has no problem" in lower them, since that has been part of the response to lower the electricity and gas bill.

During the control session, the 'number two' of the 'popular' in Congress, Carlos Rojas, compared the current situation with the previous financial crisis with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as president, criticizing that "history repeats itself" and "again" a PSOE government "ruins Spain".

"Zapatero saw green shoots, you did not see inflation coming," he criticized, inviting Calviño "to rectify" the "damaging distrust" that, in his opinion, the Executive is generating. Rojas has begun to list data on the economic growth of Spain, its level of taxes, unemployment or the rise in the energy bill and, in the face of laughter among the PSOE bench, has made ugly that "this is not to laugh at."

Calviño has justified the "moment of enormous uncertainty" after the pandemic derived from the war in Ukraine, "but even at this time the economy continues to grow strongly", and has said that this is confirmed by the different organizations, with an upward revision this week by the OECD at 4.4%.

"When they lost the government four years ago they began week after week to say the same thing: Spain is the worst, it is a disaster... But it is the last straw that they say it the week in which the OECD revises its forecast upwards to 4 .4%", the first vice president has wielded.

Likewise, he has asked the 'popular' to verify how the European Central Bank (ECB), the OECD or "even the International Monetary Fund" (IMF) have asked the United Kingdom to back down from a policy "traced" to the proposed by the PP for tax cuts "because the pound is depreciating and the stock markets are sinking". "International investors do not trust those who have an economic recipe like theirs."

Cs REPRESENTS CALVIÑO FOR HIS "TRIUMPHALISM"

For her part, in her speech, the spokeswoman for Cs, Inés Arrimadas, has summoned the economic vice president to accept her proposal to deduct part of the increase in mortgage prices from personal income tax -- a proposal rejected by PSOE, United We Can and not accepted either. for the PP--, and has reproached him for his "triumphalism", "as if they were the best", when families are "distressed".

Calviño has replied that in the face of the problem of the increase in mortgage prices in the Executive, they are not "to talk about, but to do", and that for this reason they are "working with the financial sector to find mechanisms that allow alleviating the situation of families who do not they have taken advantage of fixed-rate mortgages or do not want to change from variable to fixed".