Sánchez, on the tax cut: "When the periphery enters into a fiscal competition with the capital, the periphery loses"

Pedro Sánchez does not like that Andalusia and Murcia lower taxes.

Instead, he believes that it is the task of the Government of these autonomous communities to improve the competitiveness of those territories.

This was expressed this Wednesday, in an informal meeting with the media on the margins of the

, in which he spoke on Friday at three in the morning, Spanish peninsular time (9:00 p.m. on Thursday, in

).

"When the periphery enters into fiscal competition with the capital, the periphery loses," Sánchez said, in what appeared to be a reference to Madrid's fiscal policy, which, he said, "has the benefit of being the capital."

The President of the Government specifically referred to Andalusia, to which he recommended that it carry out a series of actions in areas such as education or

energy .

"That is public policy," said the Prime Minister, using a term that is applied to state actions.

Sánchez said that "we have to avoid fiscal

" -that is, the race to lower taxes, even at the cost of reducing the financial position of Public Administrations- to refer to the race between the different autonomous communities to reduce the burden tax, and insisted that there are autonomous communities, including some governed by the PP, that want fiscal harmonization throughout the territory of Spain, something that today is politically impossible to achieve.

In a more political field, Sánchez criticized that Andalusia is eliminating the Wealth Tax that, he said, affects 0.2% of the population of that autonomous community, and that he opposes the increase in the fiscal pressure on electricity companies.

In this sense, the President of the Government used the letter from the Secretary General of the United Nations,

, who in his speech on Tuesday, with which he opened the cycle of speeches by heads of government of the General Assembly of the organization, " defended taxes on electricity companies and

', according to his own words. The

seems to be the literal translation of the

, which is what is known in English as the exceptional and non-recurring extra income that a company obtains for some event over which it has no control, as is the case of the energy crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Regarding the energy crisis, Sánchez stressed that "we have to prepare for the worst scenario", that is, the total cut off of gas and oil supplies from Russia, and predicted the intervention of the

's energy market , "just as the financial market was intervened during the financial crisis" from 2009 to 2013. "The distribution of the burdens of the war should lead us to demand more from those who have the most", said the President of the Government, who did not want to comment on the statements of the President of the community of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist

to EL MUNDO last Sunday praising the figure of the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo.

"What is important is the image and unity that we gave in Zaragoza," Sánchez settled, referring to the recent PSOE rally in that city.

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