Yolanda Díaz announced yesterday in Valencia her intention to put an end to “the oligopoly of the big energy companies”. The Sumar candidate, in an event held with Compromís, assessed that “it is not decent that we have an energy system that depends on four to five multinationals; we will not allow companies that produce energy to also market it”.
During her intervention, Yolanda Díaz recalled that energy “has been distributed 19,000 million euros, when the electricity bill is impossible to pay for many people in Spain, for many self-employed”. He was also in favor of creating “public energy agencies” to establish real price control.
In the event, in which Íñigo Errejón also participated, he pledged to change the autonomic financing model, an eternal requirement of Compromís, by 2024. “You are the most poorly financed autonomy in the State, the system expired 14 years: the PP and the PSOE have not been able to solve this matter because they have a centralist soul and because they decide everything in Madrid”. “We know, he added, that funding is key to people’s lives, for health, education or social welfare”.
Regarding this, he added that “we need a comprehensive reform of public taxes, it cannot be that those who receive the most money are those who contribute the least”. “85% of personal income tax comes from the incomes of the country’s workers; it is intolerable that those who are lining themselves do not contribute; it is not fair that a small self-employed person pays 17% and those with the most fortune do so at 3.8%”, he concluded.
