Pedro Sánchez is willing to take advantage of the executive power of the Council of Ministers until the last breath before the general elections on July 23. The President of the Government has announced, in an interview in the Ser, that the Council of Ministers this Tuesday will approve a 15% deduction in personal income tax for the purchase of electric vehicles. A measure that he has warned will last until December 31, 2025.
This deduction, he assured, was already contemplated in the addendum presented to the European Commission, with the aim of encouraging “the green transition that we have to make to face the challenge of the climate emergency and improve sustainable mobility”.
The head of the Executive has assured that this will be one of the measures that will be incorporated into the new decree that this Tuesday will extend some of the initiatives deployed to try to stop the rise in inflation unleashed after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and which were about to about to expire, such as the reduction in VAT on food, which will be extended until the end of this year 2023, or the discount on public transport. “All those social elements that I said, from the beginning of the war, that were going to always be on the table, are going to be extended,” he assured. Sánchez has insisted on defending that he will use “all state resources to protect the middle and working class of our country while this war lasts.”
The royal decree law that the Council of Ministers will approve this Tuesday will also include one of the political commitments that Sánchez adopted during the recent campaign for the municipal and regional elections on May 28: the right to be forgotten oncology. The advance of the general elections forces him, to fulfill his commitment, to approve it by decree instead of through a bill or hang it from a parliamentary process already in progress, as he had planned.
The discount for public transport, as he has highlighted, will also indirectly compensate for the increase in the cost of living and will make “the day-to-day life of citizens more bearable”. In addition, the new decree will incorporate another of its commitments in the municipal and regional election campaign: the ICO guarantee for the purchase of housing by young people or families with minors in their care.
