“Inflation is not slowing down, some prices are above 30% and GDP points to a slowdown.” The Popular Party has once again insisted this Friday on the “need for change” at the head of the Government of Spain although, on this occasion, it has done so arguing the excess of “euphoria” and the “optimism” with which the PSOE has read the latest macroeconomic data without ceasing to ask “efforts to families”. And all this, just one day after confirming the record of 603,900 jobs in the second quarter known yesterday.
In the absence of a public agenda for the leader of the popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as well as other prominent leaders of the PP such as its general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, it has been the formation’s deputy secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, who has charged against the Executive of Pedro Sánchez pointing him out as the culprit of “the rise in inflation, the increase in mortgage prices” as well as the commitment to “more taxes” instead of tax incentives.
“Someone has to start considering that we should not ask the Spanish for more effort with 22 ministries and without control of superfluous political spending,” the Andalusian claimed at a press conference in Ceuta in which he opined that “that is what we claim and that is why Feijóo has won the elections, because the Spanish are asking for an important change to improve their day-to-day life”.
The economic reading that the PP has carried out after the electoral hangover insists on warning of the supposed seriousness of the economic indicators. Even of the GDP, which has just been revised upwards by 0.4% but which the popular frame in the fact that “the increase is mainly due to issues of domestic demand with a sharp drop in exports.” “We have been the penultimate country to recover the data prior to the pandemic, because in any case we are rebounding before growing,” Bravo insisted.
The leader of the national PP has also predicted that the latest rise in interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB) will make an average family pay “between 3,000 and 4,000 euros more per year for their mortgages.” In this context, in his eyes it is not admissible that the policies of the Sánchez government made the Spanish pay in 2022 a total of “43,000 million euros more in taxes” and that in the addendum to the Recovery Plan “in addition to the payment for highways, a suppression of fiscal incentives of the order of 30,000 is contemplated”.
With all this, Bravo has delved into the PP’s strategy of claiming the governance of Feijóo at the head of a government of change: “He has won the elections and until now he has never governed who has not, but the PSOE has not even congratulated or acknowledged victory”. “We are going to try and we are working on it because the scenario we have outlined demands changes”, he pointed out in full harmony with the decalogue displayed by Genoa once the insufficient victory harvested at the polls had been digested.
“We have a country so stagnant that the Spanish are demanding a change in management, not in headlines, because we need to build homes, not confrontational speeches, and create jobs because that is the best social policy,” he exemplified his alternative.
