The PP’s campaign spokesman, Borja Sémper, defended yesterday in Barcelona that it is necessary to act in matters of taxation, political management and economic management from the central government because “Catalonia cannot be lost as an economic engine”.
Sémper, PP candidate for Madrid on 23-J in the list headed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, advocated for focusing political action on the issues that interest the citizens and “overcoming stages” in which “we talked more about our navel”, with reference to the process. “I respect a lot those who talk about their navel, but it’s better to talk about the pocketbook”, he defended during a colloquium at the Círculo Ecuestre with the deputy director of La Vanguardia Lola García.
Among those attending the colloquium, organized by the Círculo Ecuestre and La Vanguardia, was the CEO of the Godó Group, Carlos Godó, and the vice-president of the Círculo Ecuestre, Enrique Lacalle, who introduced Sémper. Prominent figures from the Catalan PP also attended, such as the mayor of Badalona, ??Xavier Garcia Albiol, the councilor in Barcelona Daniel Sirera and former councilor Alberto Fernández Díaz.
Fully engaged in the pre-campaign for the July 23 general elections, Sémper announced that a PP government will conduct an audit of public accounts and study how to reduce the inefficient spending of the Administration before seeking more resources from the citizens . And he called for great agreements and State pacts between the PP and the PSOE and other formations to address the country’s main challenges during the next legislature, among which he mentioned the reform of the pension system, the health system or the political exterior, and abandon the “mess” and “living entrenched in watertight compartments”.
For this reason, he defended the need for the PP to obtain a “sufficient” majority to be able to govern alone. He described Vox as “a populist party that does not come with solutions, but with a particular electoral interest”, which “gives easy answers to complex problems” and “uses gasoline to put out a fire”. “What we have to do in politics is try to calm the situation”, he said.
“If you partner with others, you can have one vision of the country and the other not. We can guarantee stability if we govern alone”, he defended. But he assured that, in any case, the PP will not “relinquish important positions, even if the partner demands it”. “We don’t want to reproduce Sanchism in reverse”, he said.
In a Catalan tone, and on whether the PP would support a president of the socialist Generalitat to avoid an independence government, along the lines of what he has done at the Barcelona City Council, he implied that he would: “Feijóo understands Spain d ‘a way similar to that of colleagues from the PP of Catalonia. We will always be on the side of generating stability. The example of Barcelona is clear”.
