MADRID, 29 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has indicated to Vox on Tuesday that she cannot talk about improper public spending because its leader, Santiago Abascal, occupied a “chiringuito” created expressly for him.
Montero, who responded in Congress to a question from the Vox deputy, José María Figaredo, about the increase in public spending, assured that the only political party that cannot talk about unproductive spending is Vox, because “Mr. Abascal has been known because he was the only member of a beach bar that was made expressly for him”. “One preaches by giving wheat,” the minister told him.
Thus, he reproached him that in Castilla y León, where Vox occupies a Vice Presidency and several ministries, spending on advisers has increased by 33% and the number of senior positions has gone from 81 to 99. “Have him look at it,” he snapped at the deputy, after indicating that the Vice Presidency they occupy “does not have any type of function”.
The Vox deputy, on the other hand, accused the Minister of Finance of having the Government “most expensive in the history of Spain”, with the creation of general directorates “for close friends of the President of the Government”, which he has placed in public companies to their cabinet chiefs or fellow party members.
“They squander, spend and throw away the money of the Spanish, and in this situation of unstitched and uncontrolled spending, Spain is in a very complex situation,” stressed the representative of Vox, who recalled the rise in interest rates, the increase in the inflation or rising public debt.
For this reason, he asked the Executive to “stop spending on nonsense, on marketing and on salaries for their friends” and dedicate the money to things that are really important and guarantee the equality of Spaniards.
Given this, Montero replied that behind Vox’s words there is not an attempt to seek efficiency in public spending, but rather to generate a “breeding ground” to “impose its ideological agenda”, which involves denying diversity “in this week of pride” or the dignity of women and their real equality.
“Just tell him that 80% of the money in the Spanish budget is allocated to welfare and, therefore, to the provision of public services that allow us to be basically equal,” he reiterated.
