He reproaches him for proposing the same neoliberal agenda that the PP applied and assures that his measures are closer to Rajoy than to Vox
MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS) – The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has today disfigured the candidate for the motion of censure presented by VOX, Professor Ramón Tamames, who has accepted the offer of Santiago Abascal’s party because they are the “heirs de Blas Piñar”, the historic leader of Fuerza Nueva.
In the opinion of Pedro Sánchez, this “has not been the best idea he has had in his life”. He has expressed it this way at the beginning of his response to the speech given by Tamames, which lasted about 52 minutes. The head of the Executive has warned that Vox “is not just another party” but “is something else.” He also considers that the measures that he has proposed are closer to former President Rajoy than to Vox.
For this reason, he has reminded the economist that he has not taken the floor with the support of the PCE to which he belonged, nor with that of the party of Adolfo Suárez “to which he migrated”; nor in the name of Fraga and the founders of the PP, but those who promote the motion of censure, he has pointed out, “are the successors of Blas Piñar.” “You and those who keep memories of the people of the transition know what I mean”, he exclaimed.
However, Pedro Sánchez, who has said that he does not agree with most of the things that the candidate of the motion has said, has recognized the “tone of the debate and the effort to contribute ideas and not insults.”
Although, yes, he has regretted that with his intervention he contributes to “whitening” a party that, according to the president, rejects equality between men and women, denies scientific evidence of climate change, is with the anti-vaccination, penalizes immigrants and he supports the banning of parties for ideas that do not coincide with his own.
Pedro Sánchez has responded to Tamames for an hour and 25 minutes following some of the thematic blocks that the candidate had raised, accusing him of defending the same neoliberal agenda that the Popular Party of Mariano Rajoy carried out during his Government.
In fact, and at the end of his speech, Sánchez has come to insinuate that Ramón Tamames is more the candidate of the PP than of Vox by stating that the professor’s ideas “are more related to the PP project.”
“It has been said of you that you were not the right candidate to lead this motion because your ideas were not fully aligned with the Vox project, I think those analyzes are right, that your ideas are much more related to the PP project,” he said. exclaimed.
Immediately afterwards, he specified that Tamames’ defense of low wages, cuts, tax dumping, privatizations in public services, recentralizations in the CCAAs, “old patriotic values ??would have fitted perfectly into Mr. Rajoy’s program and equally also in those of Mr. Feijóo”.
Along the same lines, he pointed out that Tamames has defended the same recipes that Rajoy applied during the 7 years that he governed “with heartbreaking results.” For Sánchez, Tamames has defended in his intervention lowering wages, making dismissal cheaper, cutting spending and opening the doors to the privatization of public services.
BACK TO THE ANTISOCIAL AGENDA
Thus he has indicated that Rajoy did what the candidate proposed by Vox has invoked this Tuesday, that is, cut labor rights, freeze the interprofessional minimum wage, grant tax amnesties, “cut off” public services and cut social benefits.
He has also warned that these recipes have already failed and destroyed two and a half million companies, increased the gap between Spain and the most advanced European economies and lost a million hours of working days due to the labor conflict for which he blames to the “labor counter-reform” approved by the PP in 2013.
According to Sánchez, they do share a “common point” both the candidate and Vox and the PP and it is the “peremptory” will to evict the Government and prevent progress in social policies.
But he believes that the problem with the motion, after listening to the candidate, is that it intends to return to the “happily overcome antisocial” agenda, which the only thing it proposes is the “2013 cutback agenda.” A motion, he has insisted, that is not against the government or against it but to go back 10 years in the case of the PP and 50 in the case of VOX, “will return to a Spain that defended the privilege of a few” and from which it follows “decline and decay”.
Sánchez has described the aforementioned policies as a “legacy of ashes” and has maintained that currently economic orthodoxy has changed and international institutions such as the European Commission or the International Monetary Fund welcome measures such as European funds or the Iberian solution.
Thus, he has pointed out that conservative governments in Europe privately acknowledge that they want a similar measure for their country and that the only ones who have found out are the right and the extreme right in Spain.
Sánchez has also reproached Tamames for the fact that in the time he has spent talking about environmental policy he has not mentioned climate change at any time, emphasizing that Vox, the party that has proposed him as a candidate, denies that it exists.
AVOID ANSWERING ABOUT THE SAHARA
On the other hand, regarding foreign policy, Sánchez has responded to questions from Tamames that he may share or disagree with the decisions, but he cannot criticize him for not working on it.
Thus, he has indicated that when he came to the Government in 2018 Spain had lost all relevance and international prestige in Europe and Rajoy limited himself to going to Brussels to “take note” of the decisions that were made there, while now his Government has influence in the main discussions.
Regarding the change of position on the Sahara and the rapprochement with Morocco, a matter for which Tamames has questioned him, Sánchez has limited himself to pointing out that diplomatic relations with the neighboring Alawite have been strengthened, as has been done with other countries such as France and Portugal.
DEMOCRATIC QUALITY
Regarding Tamames’ criticism of the Government for not respecting the separation of powers, as he has launched, Sánchez has assured that Spain is a full democracy and this is confirmed by the three main indicators at a global level.
He has also pointed out that if Spain is still not higher in those rankings it is because of the PP that does not renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). “Remind Feijóo of that the next time you eat with him,” she launched at him.
EARLY ELECTION PETITION
Sánchez has reproached Tamames that both he and Vox and the PP share the request for an early call for general elections. “They ask for it for active, passive and periphrastic, they demand it morning, afternoon and night,” he claimed.
At the same time, it has warned that in the event that this electoral advance were carried out, the pension reform decree that links the increase in retirees’ payments with the increase in the cost of living could not be validated.
In addition, Sánchez has gone back to the first motion of censure presented by Vox in October 2020 and has stressed that if he had gone ahead, measures that in his opinion are positive for the social majority would not have been approved, such as the labor reform, the increase in the scholarship item, the science law, the food chain law, as you mentioned. Neither are taxes on large electric companies, financial institutions and solidarity taxes on large fortunes.
