The opposition leader believes that the government’s proposals were a “patch” and asks him to act with “humility” thinking of families

MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured this Monday that the “runaway” inflation of the month of May shows that the measures approved by the Government led by Pedro Sánchez do not work and has urged him to apply those proposed by the Party Popular and that he “despised”. In his opinion, the Executive must act with “humility” thinking of families.

Specifically, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.8% in May compared to the previous month and increased its year-on-year rate four tenths, to 8.7%, due to higher gasoline and food prices , according to advanced data published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

In this way, inflation resumes its rises in May this month after it moderated in April by 1.5 points of blow, reaching 8.3%. The May data, which must be confirmed by Statistics in the middle of next month, is 1.1 points below the March peak, when the CPI reached 9.8%, its highest rate in almost 37 years .

In a message on his official Twitter account, which has been collected by Europa Press, the head of the opposition has stated that these data “confirm that inflation is still out of control and the government’s patch does not work”.

“Measures like those that the PP proposed in April and the PSOE despised are necessary. The Government must act with humility and think about the families that find it so difficult to make ends meet,” said Feijóo.

Three weeks ago, the PP sent Moncloa a 41-page document –without the PP logo– divided into four axes: rationalization of government bureaucratic spending; “selective and immediate” tax cut; redesign of European funds to “make them more useful”; and medium-term structural reforms to encourage economic activity.

As Feijóo has highlighted, it is “a serious and rigorous plan”, with a selective and temporary reduction in taxes with retroactive effect from January, and aimed at medium and low incomes that “are the ones that are having the worst time.

The general secretary of the PP and spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, has expressed herself in similar terms, stressing that the CPI “continues to rise and the Spanish do not make ends meet.”

“The economic situation is worrying and the Government continues to despise the measures proposed by Feijóo,” Gamarra said on Twitter, who has asked the Prime Minister not to delay the exit from the crisis for another day.

In the same way, the parliamentary spokesman for the PP in the Senate, Javier Maroto, has lamented that the CPI, “the tax of those who have the least”, is already at 8.7%, while Pedro Sánchez “continues to sit idly by” . “A measure that could alleviate this today is to accept the European proposal that fuels have a VAT of 5% and not 21%. Will Sánchez continue saying no again today?”, he asked.

The spokesperson for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has also spoken out, indicating that “the exorbitant inflation crushes the economic triumphalism that the Government has been dragging”.

In his opinion, Spain “needs measures and reforms, not propaganda and expensive macro-governments that are incapable of managing.” “Taxes must be lowered and European funds streamlined,” Montserrat declared in a message on Twitter, which was collected by Europa Press.

For her part, the former minister and deputy spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Elvira Rodríguez, stressed that the rise in the CPI is “scandalous” and “that of underlying inflation is enormously worrying.”

“Fuel continues unchecked and the effect on families is unbearable. But the Government refuses to mitigate the impact by deflating income tax and adapting withholdings. It’s another ball,” Rodríguez said.

In similar terms, Daniel Lacalle, the PP’s former Secretary of the Economy, has expressed himself, who believes that inflation “destroys the middle class.” In his opinion, the advance CPI data for May is “very worrying, with the underlying one at the highest level since October 1995.” “Wage earners pay more and more taxes due to inflation and lose more purchasing power, he has added.