The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy, has opted this Thursday to return to one of the proposals of the last legislature and establish a basic shopping basket that allows intervene from public powers to guarantee affordable prices.
Bustinduy launched this idea again during his appearance at the Senate Social Rights Commission, where he presented the general lines of his project and listened to the criticism from the PP of his management Until now.
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Senator Bienvenido de Arriba has reproached him for maintaining a speech “riddled with geopolitics” while families “increasingly have harder to make ends meet”, while his partner Carmen Riolobos has urged him to stop doing international politics and “attack a friendly country like Israel” and to defend consumers.
Bustinduy has recognized that poverty rates are unacceptable and, to fight against them, he has appealed to the collaboration of the PP to carry out initiatives such as family law. And “if your concern for this country is sincere,” he has also urged them to apply the housing law, “which puts a stop to the culture of speculation,” and to abandon policies of lowering taxes on large companies or suppressing of the inheritance tax.
*Information prepared by Efe
