Pedro Sánchez promises a tax reduction and more defense spending without specifying

There will be a tax cut to deal with the economic consequences of the invasion of Ukraine, but we will have to wait.

The President of the

did not want to anticipate tonight in the interview he granted to La Sexta, any specific measure and sent to the

on March 29 that it will approve the

on the Spanish economy .

There will also be, he said, an increase in defense spending, but in this case too, we will have to wait.

At least until, after the summer, the next

project is drawn up .

According to Sánchez, defense spending in

it is now 1.4% of GDP, however, experts barely put it at 1.2.

Sánchez insisted that what must be avoided now and by all means is a third world war and for this reason, he said, it is convenient to “measure the words” and “act united in the condemnation, in solidarity and in the forcefulness of the sanctions. ».

However, he did not rule out this dramatic possibility in view of the proximity of the Russian aggressor to the borders of NATO territory and the EU.

's expansionist urge

is there," he stressed, "we are at a defining moment."

"We have to stop the war and that means stopping Putin's feet," he said before emphasizing the need to provide "humanitarian aid and also defensive and offensive material to Ukraine."

"We don't know which country is going to be next," he said.

Despite this, he did not want to anticipate what Spain would do in the event that Moscow attacked a member of the

, although he did assure that we are obliged by

of

and by article

of

solidarity with any member country that is attacked.

For now, he did guarantee that Spain will continue to send weapons to the Ukrainian resistance but not troops.

Sánchez justified his change of opinion in a matter of hours regarding the shipment of weapons by following the example of other nations that are also changing their position: the

with respect to

or

or

, leaving aside its historical neutrality.

The president believes he has the majority support of Spanish society, although not that of members of his government belonging to United We Can, who maintain a position, in his opinion, "wrong."

According to Sánchez, the Ukrainian resistance receives the Spanish weapons "crying" with gratitude.

The president also announced that he had requisitioned this Monday in the

a mega yacht belonging to a Russian oligarch that he did not identify.

To deal with the economic consequences of the war, the president put two dates on the table.

The first, on March 24 and 25, when the

meets and addresses the possibility of modifying the formation of energy prices by intervening in the price of gas.

The second will be on March 29 when the

approve the shock plan to deal with the economic repercussions in Spain.

Until then, the entire Government, he said, will dedicate itself to dialogue with the social agents and the CCAA while he himself makes a tour of capitals in search of a closed support for the proposal to intervene in energy prices.

"We will do everything in our power to cushion the consequences of the war and to ensure that the burden is shared fairly," he said.

In the national plan there will be tax cuts, he assured, but he did not specify any of them.

Sánchez hopes that this roadmap will receive broad support from the Chamber.

“If we are united around the sentence, we must also be united in the response to this crisis.

We must not allow this energy blackmail that Putin imposes on the EU », he stressed.

He assured that the tax reduction measures that have already been adopted will cost the State between 10,000 and 12,000 million euros.

They will be discounts, he said, that will be maintained and to which new ones will be added that he did not specify last night.

At this point, he described the statement of the PP's leader

, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as "a joke," for whom the State is "popping money" thanks to the runaway increase in fuel and electricity prices.

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