The PP foresaw that Spain would face the abyss of recession in 2023, but that omen has proven to be unsuccessful. The economy has held up much better than the popular leadership expected, but Alberto Núñez Feijóo believes that “the Government cannot settle in this triumphalism”, since underlying inflation – the one that discounts energy and food prices perishables- has risen to 7.5%.
“In the last year, food and housing expenses -water, electricity or gas- have risen by around 20%” and the price of clothing and footwear “23%”, lamented the leader of the opposition during his speech before the barons, in the National Executive Committee of the PP.
For this reason, Feijóo has insisted this Monday on his proposal to sign, together with the PSOE and the social agents, “an income pact” that includes an increase in the “interprofessional minimum wage” and “the wages of medium incomes”, to combat ” the escalation” accumulated of the prices and “the spiral of inflation of second round”.
“The Government has to get to work on an agreement that Sánchez promised in March 2021,” he said, but without providing data on how much he would like wages to be revalued. It is something, they point out in his team, that should be negotiated at the rental agreement table.
Feijóo has also offered the votes of his party to reform the Law of only yes is yes in Congress. “This law has caused so much pain to the victims that it is unacceptable for the government to continue broadcasting its discrepancies in real time,” said the president of the main opposition party.
“The only thing that fits is an immediate rectification. And if Mr. Sánchez does not find support for that in his partners, he will find it in the alternative that we represent”, he stressed. “I guarantee my support for the modification of the Law of the only if it is yes immediately, whether or not it has support in its Council of Ministers or in Congress,” he reiterated.
In fact, faced with the “errors” of the law of only yes is yes, the PP has used a new slogan this Monday on the screen placed behind Feijóo at the PP headquarters: “Win yes or yes.”
At a time when the popular are talking about the possible incorporation of Begoña Villacís, Feijóo has limited himself to ensuring that the PP will present “the best candidates and the best projects”, and advocating “the unity of those of us who share values ??and concerns”, in a veiled reference to the unification of the center-right vote.
Feijóo has also complained about the lack of information from the Government to the opposition in the shipment of Leopard tanks to Ukraine and before “an alleged terrorist attack” like the one in Algeciras. “It would not be acceptable in any country in Europe.” “There is a before and after of the consensus with Sánchez. Rajoy in two years contacted Rubalcaba eight times and seven with Sánchez in less than a year”, he has defended, while Sánchez hardly spoke to him through the CGPJ, he has saying.
For this reason, he has underlined his “commitment” that he will share “content” with the opposition leader if he reaches La Moncloa. Spain “needs to return to the channel of institutional respect” and needs “collaboration” between the big parties, he said. “It is not late. Another Spain is possible, and another path in Spanish politics.” “Given the contempt with which they treat us, we will continue to offer institutional loyalty, proposals, seriousness and unity”, he concluded.
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