The extraordinary tax on banks will be maintained regardless of whether or not there is a change in La Moncloa on July 23. The economic manager of the Popular Party (PP), Juan Bravo, has ruled out that his party is going to repeal the tribute created by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez in the event of reaching the Government after the next general elections and has summoned 2024 to assess the situation and make a decision about it.
“We will see how inflation is and how the situation is and, from there, we will analyze whether to change it to another measure,” he said during his participation in the first day of the summer course at the Menéndez Pelayo International University organized by APIE ( Association of Economic Information Journalists) and BBVA in Santander, which this year celebrates its 40th edition. His proposal is to create a fund, in collusion with the banking entities, to help the families most affected by the rise in mortgages. “It’s more interesting to change it,” Bravo said.
The economic manager of the populares thus responded to the words of the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, who hours before in the same forum assured that the tax was “fair and necessary” in the war context in which it was created.
The economic proposal of the PP for the next appointment with the polls does not contemplate repealing the tax on energy companies, but rather “adapting it to European legislation”, as the formation led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo had previously clarified. In the same way, it does not plan to repeal the Housing Law, recently approved by the Sánchez Cabinet, but to modify some of the points that have generated the most controversy. “The Housing Law has two fundamental things: the limitation of prices, where there are examples that have shown that it causes a reduction in supply and an increase in prices, and for this reason we believe that it should be removed, because it does not contribute. And on the other hand, it is a law that protects squatters and goes against the owners,” said Bravo. In his opinion, however, it is not about making a housing law, “but about making houses” to make up for the lack of stock that currently exists in the market. The training figures between 130,000 and 140,000 annual needs for houses currently and proposes streamlining administrative procedures, using available land or promoting public-private collaboration as ways to start them up. “There is no formula. You have to build housing,” he stressed.
Bravo has also insisted on some of the points that Feijóo himself has presented in the last hours about his economic proposal in case he manages to form a government. Among other aspects, the PP proposes to deflate the personal income tax, “reduce superfluous political spending”, simplify the administrative and bureaucratic obstacles of the processes or reduce the number of ministries. “We are not going to have 22 ministries. We are going to reduce expenses,” he said in this regard.
However, the economic manager of the PP has not released any pledge on the possible candidates to lead a hypothetical portfolio of Economy in an eventual popular government. In recent days there are several names that have been rumored, without the president of the PP having given any clue about them. “Until he is president, Feijóo is not going to announce who will be the Minister of Economy,” said Bravo; “I will be where President Feijóo wants, I have no more ambition than that,” he added about the possibility that his name is finally chosen.
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