Alberto Núñez Feijóo will reveal today in his inauguration speech the measures of his government program for the 48 million Spaniards. On the one hand, economic proposals, such as the lowering of personal income tax and the reduction of VAT on basic foods; also social, such as the reform of article 49 of the Constitution to delete the term diminished, and institutional, with more independence from the Judiciary.
These are the main initiatives he will address to contrast them with Pedro Sánchez’s project which, he will stress, only benefits those who are willing to give him the votes to be re-elected president: amnesty, self-determination referendum or pardon of more than 420,000 millions of euros.
The general secretary of the party, Cuca Gamarra, thus defined the dichotomy that will be raised by the PP leader’s speech: “O Feijóo or amnesty”.
The candidate presents himself with the certainty of having won the election. According to sources from the national leadership, “with the endorsement of the one who has the direct support of more than 8 million voters, and up to 11 million with the parties that will support him”. Also with the “moral support of an immense majority of Spaniards” who mobilized, according to the PP, at the event organized on Sunday against the amnesty. the PP guarantees them all that “it will keep its word”.
Aside from the programmatic proposals, amnesty, one of the demands of the pro-independence parties for the investiture, will occupy an important part of the speech. Discarded and censured by the popular candidate, it will affect the Chamber in which, if Sánchez approves it, it will be a cession to the promoters of the unacceptable process for the PP, even if this costs him the presidency of the government.
Cuca Gamarra explained it yesterday: “Feijóo is the first candidate who, having the possibility of obtaining the necessary votes for the investiture, resigns to be president, because he prefers dignity to a government with indignity”. The leader of the PP “is a person of his word” and will not give in to demands that, according to the candidate, go against his principles, “as they went against the principles of Sánchez”, the PP underlines, although now the socialist president be willing to take them on.
With this panorama, the PP presents itself at the investiture of its leader calling “to the awareness of different political sensitivities”, so that they reflect on whether they prefer “a firm and solid government, but dialogue and reliable”. And they make a specific appeal to the nationalists, to whom they suggest that they question whether, with his experience, “Sánchez is more trustworthy”.
Despite the fact that Feijóo’s investiture is a priori doomed to failure, the leader of the PP will also occupy his time to present his government program. He will draw a smaller Council of Ministers than that of Sánchez, so that instead of the current 22 ministers, there would be 15. He will set the priorities of a government that he will not be able to form and list what would be his first measures if was president
The economy will be the protagonist. In this area, he will mention measures such as the reduction of personal income tax for the lowest incomes of 40,000 euros, to compensate for inflation; the reduction of VAT on meat, fish and canned goods; that the tax on large fortunes – the tax created by the Sánchez Government that taxes fortunes of more than three million euros – be managed by the communities through the Heritage tax so that the autonomous communities can decide if they want it suppress – as Madrid and Andalusia have done – or maintain it, as in Catalonia.
In institutional matters or democratic regeneration, the PP candidate will undertake to guarantee the independence of the Judiciary with a new system of appointments. The candidate also plans to guarantee market unity through collaboration with the autonomous communities and commit to administrative simplification.
Another of the issues that Feijóo plans to address refers to the application of a tax incentive program to take advantage of European funds more effectively and review the tax framework and deductions for investments and emerging companies.
A program drawn up to govern, but with no possibility of execution if the result of the investiture is as expected.
