2023-12-28 04:04:03
Calviño is leaving not only because he is going to earn five times more at the European Investment Bank (EIB), but because he knows perfectly well what is coming. The end of the party begins next January 1 and is called raising the VAT on electricity and gas by five percent. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said yesterday, with his usual arrogance, that the increase will be gradual over six months, but he did not specify the gradualness. Perhaps, because it is not such or because it is simply impossible to cover up the fact that from now on we are going to have to pay much more in energy bills. Something that is generalized, for everyone, including the most needy, not just for the rich, as the president likes to argue.
So the vaunted social shield, assuming that it really is, is beginning to crack through the facts. Europe has said that it is already celebrating and that we must return to the path of adjustment: a three percent deficit and 106 percent of debt over GDP. Then, first the electricity and gas, and soon the rest. Which is basically called a tax increase. Not precisely to support the aforementioned “social shield”, which is nothing more than pure talk, but to pay the debts contracted with the communist partners, Bilduetarras and separatas. That is, for political spending.
Nor is it that they are going to charge us all more to distribute it among the citizens who have the least, as they falsely argue, but rather that it is about us paying more to redeem in this way the debt of the corrupt secessionist Generalitat of Catalonia, the transferred social security to the PNV, the Rodalies, the subsidies to the unions, the one hundred and one thousand mangers and beach bars set up for the greater glory of those who govern us.
So the story continues. Yesterday’s balance sheet press conference with our helmsman consisted, as usual, of letting loose milongas. The first, that his Presidency talks to everyone. It’s true, he doesn’t stop talking with Vox and with the PP, too. Of course, I meant speaking badly, because to speak well you already have the pro-ETA members. Not just to talk. He starts talking and ends up giving Bildu the Mayor of Pamplona. Of course, Sánchez says that it is as a consequence of the poor municipal management of UPN. He makes the man reluctant to recognize that, in reality, everything is part of the agreement made with the former terrorist Arnaldo Otegi in order to be sworn in as president. He thinks it is because he was elected to office by the absolute majority of Spaniards. And thinking about it so much you end up swallowing your own nonsense. So, in reality, he is not going to give anything to either EH Bildu or the PNV or Carles Puigdemont.
Míriam Nogueras, the main representative of Puigdemonism in Madrid, already said yesterday that Junts is going to vote against the validation of one of the three royal decrees that the coalition government will approve. We will have to see what they finally do, because they bark a lot and bite nothing. But at least they remind the mega-president that he is not in office because of his pretty face, but because he has promised everything that has been asked of him. And now he has to fulfill. Otherwise, any parliamentary initiative that has a vote against Junts does not come out. From Junts or the PNV, Esquerra, Bildu, Podemos or Sumar. You have to keep the staff happy.
And since some are left-wing but others are right-wing, sometimes there is no way to balance the equation. For example: Yolanda Díaz is upset by the slight concession to the PNV in the treatment of energy companies, calling the modification of the tax so that strategic investments can be deducted a “fiscal gift.” But it’s not just her who’s angry. You just have to listen to Unai Sordo, the general secretary of the Workers’ Commissions. She denies Sánchez by complaining that no one consults him. For him to say that he talks to everyone.
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