MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has stressed this Tuesday to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, that some General State Budgets (PGE) that do not lower taxes on average incomes and short are “antisocial”. In addition, he has pointed out that the fact that it is “news” that PSOE and Podemos agree on public accounts proves that the country has spent four years with a “divided and confronted” government.
This is how he pronounced himself during his visit to the International Fruit and Vegetable Fair Fruit Attraction 2023, after that budget agreement was known. According to Vice President Yolanda Díaz, the pact reached within the government coalition on public accounts for next year includes, among other things, the deployment of a Family Law that will include new reconciliation permits and the revaluation of pensions .
In statements to the media, Feijóo has criticized that it is “news” that the Government is “agreeing with itself”, something that, in his opinion, proves the situation of the Executive in Spain and that the country has been “four years ” with a “divided and confronted” cabinet. In addition, he has recalled that he now has to agree on the public accounts with his partners from ERC and Bildu.
Next, he has blamed the Government for talking about increasing social spending when the Spanish “have never paid so many taxes.” “These Budgets without lowering taxes in the year 22, are some PGE from the point of view of the antisocial middle and low income”, he has emphasized.
The head of the opposition has picked up the glove to discuss taxes with the Prime Minister because “there are clearly two models in fiscal and economic policy” in Spain. Thus, he has said that with the current government, Spain has become the “bottom country in economic recovery and the one that has increased taxes the most” according to OECD data. In his opinion, it is not “good” to be in the classification “in the worst position”.
“Hopefully we can discuss taxes and hopefully we can offer two models to Spaniards. The model that lives at the cost of asking people for more effort to buy the same thing and the model that proposes that when people make an enormous effort to increase prices, we must return part of the taxes they pay for buying the same thing”, he emphasized, adding that he would like to debate with Sánchez and hopes to be able to do so in both Houses.
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