The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured this Sunday that the project of the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2023 “is the most expensive electoral program in history.”
This has been indicated during his speech at an act in Infecar, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with which the regional PP has opened the party’s traveling convention to present its program for the next regional elections and where Feijóo has given a bath of masses when participating in front of more than 1,000 people, even having the party to enable a room attached to the main one, since the 750 people that fit in the room where the act has been developed have been exceeded.
During his speech, Feijóo stated that the PGE project “is far from what Spain needs”, considering that it is the “most expensive electoral program in history” at a time when inflation is highest in recent times. 40 years, with one of the “lowest” economic growth rates and an “exorbitant” public debt.
In this sense, he stressed that “never” the “adequate” recipe to curb the increase in current prices has been “the increase in public spending financed by the increase in taxes.” An example of the central government’s fiscal policy, he said, is that Spain is the “only” country that “has not recovered” the economic situation it had before the pandemic.
He added that Spain owes one and a half billion euros in public debt and that since 2018, when Pedro Sánchez took over the Presidency of the Government, Spain “has cost more than 200 million euros more in debt every day.” “This being progressive for Sánchez means that our children pay the debt and I don’t think it’s very progressive to live on your children’s account,” he stressed.
All of this is framed, he understands, by the “internal competition” that exists “within the Government and within the Government’s partners”, clarifying that there is the “strategy of the PSOE, the strategy of Podemos, the strategy of the United Left and the strategy of A project that consists of subtracting all the others is called an addition project.
To this he added that the PSOE itself “is in its own electoral races: the Sánchez electoral race is the only one that interests him –Pedro Sánchez–, that of those who do not want to be harmed by Sánchez’s strategy and the of those who are thinking about how to organize the PSOE when Sánchez leaves. The PP also wants that”.
On the other hand, Feijóo has pointed out that after his experience in autonomous governments, he considers that one should “think about governing and not about appearing or resisting”, as well as “always respect the institutions of the State before the political party” in which he is a member. and “always think” of the country before the next elections because “governments are the guarantors of the general interests of a land.”
In this sense, he has defended that when one takes office as President of the Government “it is not due to his party, it is due to the interests” of the same and of those who have voted for him and “that is the difference between being President of the Government and to be general secretary of the PSOE”.
He added that Spain currently has a government made up of “two soccer teams”, the “most expensive in history” that he understands “is unacceptable” and currently a “provocation that cannot” be silenced. With this, he has reproached the central Executive that “only those who support” the Government benefit because “it is not governed for the majority”, since it is “hostage to the minorities” who are the ones who “impose” the national policy.
THE PSOE IS THE “CRUTCH” OF INDEPENDENTISM
As for Spanish not being a teaching language in Catalonia, he has accused the PSOE of being the “crutch” of the independence movement because “independence is the PSOE’s crutch in the Cortes”, thus causing the pact with the Generalitat de that Spanish “is not a vehicular language in teaching in that part of Spain”.
Thus, the president of the PP has defended Spanish, a language that “exceeds Spain”, with more than 600 million people, while criticizing that “you cannot trade with the civil and fundamental rights of the Catalans” agreeing that ” Spanish has the same treatment as English” because Spanish “is not a foreign language in Spain, it is a common language. A government cannot act as a lifeline for independence.”
“THERE IS NOTHING DONE”
On the other hand, in terms of party, Feijóo has asked the militants and supporters of the PP in the Canary Islands “to take advantage minute by minute, day by day” of the next seven months, before the autonomous electoral appointment because “there is nothing done” , “there is not a single vote in the polls”.
In this sense, he has requested to be available to the neighbors and to be prepared to manage at a “critical moment” because, he affirmed, they will arrive to “pay what is owed” and must work “with the rigor of knowing that they will not” have the “opportunity” to make a mistake because, he clarified, the PP “has never been relegated to anything”.
Thus, he said, building a plan to govern needs references of good practices, where it has been done well and as an example he referred to Andalusia, where he said they began to govern three years ago and when the PP arrived it was “the caboose of the economic activity and number one in unemployment”, however at that time he has ensured that he has become “one of the locomotives of employment, one of the economic locomotives and an absolute majority of the PP”.
I also cite Galicia as an example of “stopping nationalism” and where the language has “not” been handed over, to add that “there is a benchmark of good managers, of good mayors, of good council presidents, of good ministers who have had Spain and the Canary Islands (…)”, thanking the presence of former Minister José Manuel Soria. In contrast, he gave the central Executive as an example of “how not to govern.”
Finally, he concluded convinced that Spain will come out of the “third great crisis” with a PP government, just as, he said, happened in the 90s with José María Aznar and from 2010 to 2011 with Mariano Rajoy.
