Yolanda Díaz sees the deductions for energy companies with "obscene" benefits as "incomprehensible"

The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, sees it as “incomprehensible” that taxes are reduced via deductions to energy companies with “record” profits that she describes as “obscene.”

He was referring to the royal decree approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers, in which temporary taxes on banking and energy companies are extended for one more year, although the latter may deduct strategic investments linked to industrial projects and decarbonization.

“It is absolutely incomprehensible that the large energy companies that have record profits lower their taxes,” said the leader of Sumar in an interview on TVE, in which she warned that energy companies “double the profits and profitability in relation to the European energy companies”.

“Neither to me nor to any sensible person in our country,” he insisted when asked if he was satisfied with the situation. “There is no one who can defend this if it is not for ideological reasons,” added the second vice president who considered that the tax was “working well”, which is why she announced that her parliamentary group is going to work in Congress so that “These incentives are corrected” and “far from lowering taxes, they (the energy companies) are the ones who contribute to the solution to the crisis in our country.”

Despite everything, Díaz has been satisfied with the decree in general and has highlighted the maintenance of universal bonuses for public transportation and the maintenance of taxes on large fortunes and financial entities.

Regarding the Galician elections that will take place on February 18, the leader of Sumar, after confirming the pre-agreement between her party, Izquierda Unida and Podemos to run in a coalition, has rejected any possibility of a pre-electoral agreement with the BNG.

However, the second vice president has called on the left, and in particular the progressive electorate, to mobilize. “If the progressive Galicians who went to vote on July 23 do so again on February 18, the PP leaves Montepío,” said Díaz, referring to the official residence of the president of the Xunta de Galicia.

“We can defeat Feijóo again,” insisted the leader of Sumar, who beyond confirming that the current spokesperson for Sumar in Congress, Marta Lois, will be the candidate of the Sumar Galicia brand, has warned that the final agreement on The coalition is pending ratification by the Galician organizations. Along these lines, Díaz has predicted that Lois “is going to be the key, the key to change in the Xunta de Galicia” and to the “progressive future” of this region.

On the other hand, Díaz has referred to the motion of censure that will be held this Thursday in Pamplona City Hall, with which UPN will be evicted from the municipal government, which Bildu will take over with the support of the PSN. “This motion of censure is absolutely democratic. Therefore, absolute respect,” said the leader of Sumar. Likewise, she has highlighted that “Sumar will always be adding in favor of progressive governments, therefore, logically, to improve people’s lives.”