He urges him to withdraw his “fictitious” Budgets and to stop “childish mantras” that only have their sights set on the general ones
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has harshly charged against the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, for boasting in his appearance at the Senate Plenary debate that Spain is doing “well” when it has high inflation, double unemployment than the EU average and is going to “mortgage” Spaniards with their General State Budgets (PGE) for 2023. In fact, it has summoned him to withdraw those “fictitious” public accounts and present new ones in Parliament.
“I think this is going to be his last Budget as President of the Government of Spain. I say it from the heart,” Feijóo snapped at Sánchez during his speech in the Senate plenary session on the occasion of his second parliamentary duel.
The president of the PP has criticized Sánchez for bragging about the growth of the Spanish economy when Spain is the last country to recover the GDP it had in 2019. In the same way, he has criticized him for bragging about containing inflation when Spain has “two points more core inflation” than the European average; or job creation when Spain has twice as much unemployment as other European countries.
Likewise, it has made him ugly that he boasts of photovoltaic or wind energy production when “they were files that were found when he arrived at the Government.” And in the case of photovoltaic parks, he has snapped that this decision corresponds to the autonomous communities. “A little respect for the territorial Chamber and for the CCAA”, he has proclaimed.
Feijóo, who has even blamed Sánchez for boasting of vaccination and other measures that the autonomous communities have adopted, has affirmed that the chief executive arrived in Moncloa “riding on the back of a lie”, alluding to the sentence of the Gürtel, and has continued to govern with more “lies”.
The head of the opposition has criticized that the President of the Government speaks of “social justice” and “social shield” when he denies the Minimum Vital Income to many Spaniards in a situation of poverty and does not lower VAT on basic products in the basket of the purchase. “But then he gives 400 euros to those who turn 18 to buy video games, for example, but not to buy food,” he has complained.
The head of the opposition has attacked the “fictitious” public accounts for 2023 and has said that he has “erred” in all his forecasts since he arrived in Moncloa, as different organizations say. In fact, he has asked if the fact that he has “always failed” in those forecasts is “insolvency or bad faith”.
In addition, the president of the PP has affirmed that Sánchez is the president of the EU who has “debted the most” to his country. “Land down, Mr. President. We live in a difficult time and nothing indicates that it will improve in the short term. It is necessary to mature and stop childish mantras that only have their sights set on the next elections,” he proclaimed.
Moreover, he has criticized him for using a “serious tone” in his appearance to ask for “sacrifices” from the Spanish but continue to maintain the “largest government in the history of Spain”, with 22 ministers and an increase of 144 million in spending in senior management, with 37% more than in 2018.
THE RENT PACT: “MISSING TARGET”
Feijóo has affirmed that some Budgets are not good “because of how big or small they are, but rather if they are “rigorous” and the PGE of the Executive of the PSOE and Podemos “is not.” He likes slogans, but I think this is going to be his last Budget of the Government of Spain”, he has stated, to criticize the fact that he does not lower taxes on families and “mortgage” Spaniards.
“We know nothing about the rent agreement and I am concerned about the mortgage that is already being left. Morally it is unacceptable that it burdens future generations with the largest public debt that Spain has ever had. It is unacceptable”, he stated, adding that this public debt our children and grandchildren will pay.
Feijóo recalled that in March the President of the Government said that “he would have closed an income pact”. “Missing target”, he has lamented, to later advise him to “copy” countries with social democratic governments such as Portugal or Germany.
The president of the PP has stressed that the country that Sánchez is going to leave is summed up “in less wealth, more taxes, less purchasing power, more public debt, more inequality and more poverty. “This is unfortunately the summary,” he has proclaimed.
At this point, he has indicated that in Spain the people need a government that “believes in them”. “And the problem is that you no longer believe in Spain and perhaps you are not in a position to believe in Spain again because the Spanish have stopped believing in you,” he snapped.
“SÁNCHEZ, CONCERNED ABOUT THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS”
The leader of the PP has affirmed that he is not “concerned about the next general elections”. “How could I be with how well you are doing in the polls!”, he ironized, adding that the “drawing of the Government’s economic, social and labor policy is the same drawing that comes out of the demoscopy of Tezanos”, alluding to the CIS surveys.
Feijóo, who has made Sánchez ugly that in the debate he has read “literally a copy of the paragraphs” of his appearance in Congress, has ironized by assuring that he could not congratulate the ministers because then his appearance time was over.
