He interviews in The Reason

He interviews in the today edition of the newspaper Reason realized by Esther L. Palomera

- the Government has finished the first round of political contacts with the parties and it seems that we can already give for discarded a global agreement.
- the Government has will to study in depth what joins us and to avoid what separates us. There is a wide margin to keep on speaking.
- the PP speaks only about minimal coincidence points.
- what less it imports is how it takes shape or how it is called. We are not looking for a final photo, but for measurements shared to anticipate the recovery.
- Does it mean that the PP does a speech in public and other inside the commission?
- there has been an evolution. They have moderated his criticism. We have just listened to mister Rajoy to say that he has proposed of the Government that they are positive and that is in disposition to support them. It seems to me that it is a very important jump. And with that it is with what we want to remain.
- proposals that earlier were pushed back by the Executive …
- in this moment there are priorities to which we have to give answer and someone correspond to some of the presented initiatives, truly. For example in case of the rehabilitation of the housing and the energy efficiency he had proposed similar, but what the Government raises now is more ambitious, since it includes a reduction of the VAT and also a tax relief of the IRPF for the works of reform.
- Would not it be reasonable that, after one year and a half of uncultivated negotiations between trade unions and businessmen, the Government was legislating on the labor frame?
- we did a series of proposals to the table of the social dialogue, but we understand that there is no effective labor reform that could be to the margin of the agreement between businessmen and trade unions. What we have to do is to urge, to be demanding and to overturn all the efforts so that the social dialogue yields his fruits.
- And does not he believe that it is time to impose a temporary horizon?
- we have already said that this process should hasten, and although we do not want to impose the times, two or three months it is a reasonable term because the needs for the country are pressing.
- if the Government agrees in that the Autonomies are so responsible as the State of the public deficit: why has not he considered the proposal of the opposition to fix the limit of expense and of indebtedness of the Communities?
- the expositions that they affect to the set of the administrations must be agreed in the Council of Fiscal Policy and Financier (CPFF). But I remind to him that we did an exposition in the Presidents' Conference so that the stability / austerity plan was a target of the set of Public administrations, and it was the PP who boycotted a final resolution on this topic. Nevertheless, I understand that in this moment we are not to reproach ourselves anything, but to be employed at shared horizons. The PP has now the opportunity to convince to his Autonomous regions so that in the CPFF they facilitate an agreement on the stability, but also on the austerity. The Government will present a very severe plan to save in running costs, to avoid duplicities, to add public synergies across the merger, to reduce managing charges and high charges … And I hope that this measurement should be completed also by the Communities and the Town halls.
- if, as they said to us, our financial system had a big fortitude: why now is it so urgent to confront his restructuring?
- it is necessary to obtain more reliable entities and with more aptitude to compete.
- And would not it be necessary to finish with the political control of the Savings banks?
- it is necessary to tackle a reform that, being respectful with the competitions of the different Articles of association, to we allow to add synergies and be more efficient and competitive. In turn it is necessary to guarantee the stability of the same ones because it is the best message that we can give to the thifty persons and to the companies. In this sense I believe that we should advance also in the depoliticization of the boxes.
- if Brussels has warned that with the increase of the VAT from July the recovery will be more difficult: will not it be reasonable, as him ask CiU and PP, the Government to postpone this decision?
- Spain is the country of the EU with the lowest VAT, below us only is Luxembourg. We have also a fiscal pressure as regards the GDP of the lowest of Europe and nevertheless we try to be the first country in infrastructures, well-being and protection to the unemployment. Both things are incompatible. If we were following the recommendation of some, we would be the only country of the EU that would lower in this time the taxes. In any case, in Spain, the Government wants a realistic vision to expire with the target of the reduction of the deficit and, simultaneously, to support the social protection and the productive investment. This, with the fiscal adjustment that the PP proposes, would be incompatible.
- Why does not the Government fulfill the order of the Parliament of reducing 25 per cent the high charges?
- the plan of austerity that the government is going to present is much more ambitious than a simple reduction of high charges and that the set of initiatives that have appeared in the Congress of the Deputies. The austerity cannot limit itself to if there is the minister more or less. This is the chocolate of the parrot. Our proposal will affect the whole Administration of the State, high charges, but also to public enterprises. It is so necessary to do it like agreeing it. It would be suitable that the rest of the Administrations also was raising it.
- Is the State of the Well-being sustainable with this conjuncture?
- if we do not do anything to future it will be untenable. When the Government does a proposal on the pensions, he does not think about the today pensions but about those of in 20 years. It is necessary to take decisions and to tackle the debates from the seriousness and the rigor. Spain will have some day to homologables appear that if he wants to have infrastructures of the first and a well-being of the first will have to have tax levels to the countries that have this type of services. In our country we have lived through an increasing revolution of rights and a diminishing income revolution. Some day we have to speak about that.
- Also of sanitary copayment?
- I am not raising any concrete proposal, what I say is that we cannot aspire to have social services and equipments of the first and have the lowest fiscal pressure of the EU. It is not compatible.
- Does he recognize any error of the Government in the management of the crisis?
- the Government did not see the intensity of the crisis that was coming. It him happened also to all the Governments, even to the opposition, although now he says the opposite.
- Why does he believe that you are in the commission anti-crisis and not the Secretary of Labor?
- because this way the president decided it. The Secretary of Labor is impelling the social dialogue and the negotiations of the Agreement of Toledo.
- Then his is not an ascent, a bet of future?
- sincerely I do not believe it. My presence obeys what I am and represent in this moment. Consequently, I am going to try to do the best possible work to answer to the confidence that the president has deposited in me.
- Are the declarations of Hugo Chavez tolerable against Shoemaker for the car of the Hearing on the supposed collaboration of the Venezuelan Government with ETA?
- I cannot share the declarations. In any case, I am sure that the Venezuelan Government is going to study the car of the National Hearing and to investigate the accusations contained in the same one, since he speaks about very serious facts. I am sure that he will be the first interested party in clarifying it.
- Has the Spanish Government been to the height after the death of the dissident Osvaldo Zapata?
- the only purpose that guides us is the progress of life of the Cuban, the respect to the DD.HH. And I believe that in this sense there is necessary a politics of demanding dialogue, which is what impels the Government.
- Was shoe a common criminal?
- not.
- Is it, then, in disagreement with actor Guillermo Toledo?
- absolutely.