The president of the Popular Party of Extremadura, José Antonio Monago, has demanded today measures with “immediate effect” for the Extremadura countryside and that “do not put patches” which is what the Government of Spain intends with the reform of the Chain Law Food.
Thus, in a press conference offered today in Mérida, after the meeting of the Steering Committee, Monago has proposed a tax reduction, a reduction in labor costs and also in energy costs as “immediate” measures that “if approved tomorrow in the Council of Ministers, it would be noticed the day after tomorrow in the pockets of farmers and ranchers.
In this sense, he has asked the Government of Spain and Fernández Vara to "do things now" and not "cheat" with "patches" whose results would be seen in the short and medium term. "Farmers and ranchers want measures already," he said and "not that Vara tells them that there is no hard one."
The president of the PP has also referred to the last European Council that was held last week and in which he began to discuss the funds that farmers and ranchers will receive and has pointed out that Sanchez “came with empty hands” before the "soundtrack" that sounds in Brussels and that are "cuts".
In this regard, Monago has affirmed that it is a “nonsense” that is intended to cut the funds that Extremadura farmers and ranchers receive when the region “is the least developed” and “remains Objective 1” for the European Union, so He has demanded a road map to “negotiate the money of our farmers and ranchers on a dog's face”.
But Extremadura is late for the negotiation due to the "unpredictability" of Fernández Vara, which has been a "constant". On this, Monago recalled that the socialist has been part of the Committee of the Regions for four years and “has done nothing. She has not presented a proposal in defense of the agricultural sector ”so, in her opinion, when now the spokeswoman of the Board says that“ they are working against the clock ”is because“ they have caught the bull without working and untrained because there is no Ministry of Agriculture ”.
He also referred to the visit made today by a European delegation to Extremadura and has asked the Board "not to take them to eat ham to the farm of a socialist" as happened some years ago with the visit of the ministers of Agriculture of the EU, and "teach them the reality of the Extremadura countryside: low profitability, high production costs or lower profit margin". In spite of everything, the country people continue to make good products, which they have described as "miracle."
TAX HARMONIZATION
In another order of things, Monago has announced that the Popular Parliamentary Group has registered in the Extremadura Assembly a proposal to boost the principle of fiscal autonomy of the autonomous communities and to have zero taxes in rural areas, following the declarations of the finance minister last week, who announced the intention of the Government to carry out fiscal harmonization.
“When the Socialists talk about harmonization, it means raising taxes,” Monago said, who has rejected the government to eliminate the inheritance and donation tax bonus that the PP approved when it ruled the region. In his opinion, "more taxes means less competitiveness and more unemployment."
In addition, he said that what the Government of Sanchez intends is that the Spaniards pay more taxes to water Catalan independence millions and to shield the pensions of the Basque Country, the last transfer he has made to the blackmail of nationalism and that he has described as “Shielding of the private pension plan of the PNV”.
Given this, he has called for “forceful” measures to help fix the population in the villages. "People need a very strong incentive not to emigrate," he said, recalling that in the last year, not a single birth was registered in 52 municipalities in the region. "If we do nothing, today there are 52, next year will be 60 and within 10 years there will be 100 municipalities without births" he has sentenced.
