New elections in Spain, new political offers. Multipartism sees a post-election scenario where surely more than three parties are necessary to reach parliamentary majorities. Despite the bad political relations with Pedro Sánchez and Íñigo Errejón, Pablo Iglesias is preparing for a three-way negotiation. Faced with this scenario, he looks for a left-wing profile and asks his future partners to commit themselves to demanding a bank tax so that they return the money that the banks received on the occasion of the last economic crisis. It is the first measure launched to agree with PSOE and More Country.

"We must assume that 11-N will require that six, seven, eight parties have to agree. And it is important to know how we are going to agree on the new situation of economic uncertainty that is coming," said Noelia Vera , after the meeting of the Executive of Podemos.

The irruption of Más País further fragments the leftist electoral offer and puts in a crush on Podemos, as it must compete with an almost 'brother' party, constituted by its former number two, and driven by a person who not long ago were in The purple formation. Given this circumstance, the direction of Podemos bets to show its profile more left, compared to two competitors who, they consider, are more prone to, for example, a pact with Citizens.

This strategy frames the fact that the first proposal launched by Podemos to agree with PSOE and Más País is the bank tax and that it is these entities that pay the mortgage tax. Two circumstances that may bother, above all, Sanchez. Just what Iglesias is looking for, place him as a proclive partner for Cs or PP and not for Podemos. He wants to take the lead on the progressive axis.

"We propose something that we want to transfer to the rest of the progressive forces: disciplining the banks. We have experienced an unresolved situation: the crisis has been paid by the citizens and the interests of the banks have been put forward with a bailout that they have not returned That they return what they have been lent, because all the banks, directly or indirectly, have benefited from a specific bailout, "Vera said. His approach, already known, would imply raising the nominal rate of corporate tax by 10% on a temporary basis, until all the money borrowed is recovered within ten years, according to the calculation of Podemos.

According to the data of the Bank of Spain, the Bank of Spain, the State directly granted 54,353 million to the banks for the bank bailout. A public money destined to rescue 14 Spanish financial entities since 2009. The forecasts of this organization indicate that 90% of this amount will not be recovered.

The other measure launched is that it is the banks that pay the mortgage tax and not the users, as is the case now. A situation involved in controversy, after the Supreme Court changed its criteria in October 2018 and established that the mortgage tax should be paid by the banks, for 20 days later to reverse, in an unprecedented situation, and give the reason to the banks.

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