Alberto Núñez Feijóo does not want anyone to trust himself. “The polls are going well but the important thing is Sunday,” said the president of the PP in Zaragoza, the first of his stops on this election day. Despite the fact that the CIS continues to give a socialist triumph, most of the published polls tip the balance in favor of the PP and those of the organizations that make the average of all the published polls, too. It is these studies that the PP leadership trusts the most, and makes the popular leader focus on the places where a push is still needed.
A push, and that nobody takes things for granted. “We have not yet achieved anything. We still have the final stretch, although the goal is already in sight,” was the message of the PP in Zaragoza, on his fourth visit to Aragon, where he went for the fourth time, and gave his candidates homework , Jorge Azcón, for the community, and Natalia Chueca for the mayor’s office. It was not a place that before the campaign the PP thought that it was in a position to fight for it, but day after day, the polls give them better results. The average, according to what was published by Datos RTVE, gives the PP the winner, but not with enough force to take the government of the General Deputation from Javier Lambán.
The novelty, that the current president, the socialist baron, who would be second, would not have enough support to form an alternative government, adding the seats of the parties with which this legislature has governed. Under these conditions, Aragon stands as an emerging force, with about four seats, which the Government will decide in one way or another, and Feijóo wants it to be in his favor. Taking away PSOE Aragón would be a triumph added to having obtained the government of this community.
So Feijóo returned to Zaragoza this morning, after having been in Teruel a week ago and ten days ago in Zaragoza itself. The president of the PP flees from large rallies, and his activity in the Aragonese capital was to walk through its streets, enter a rockodrome to talk to those who were doing sports at that time; in a hairdressing salon, where he listened to what the clients had to say; in the market; in an awning store, because it is the way to “talk to the street, to feel what it says”.
And from there comes his speech, from which Bildu has already been banished little by little and the inclusion of 44 members of the extinct ETA on his lists, and he stops at the economy, but not in any economy, but in microeconomics , the one that affects the citizens the most. And among all the elements that make up that concept, Feijóo stops at inflation.
“What the street said is that the enormous problem it has is the great increase in prices,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo stressed in an act in the street, in the Plaza e la CiudadanÃa. “His problem is that everything is worth more, that we pay more for the same thing,” and as he always does, he gives the example of the price of oil, which has risen by 60%, he said, or that of milk or sugar, which They have done 20 and 30 percent.
But above all, he complains that the Government has not taken the necessary measures and has speculated with formulas, “at least part of the Government”, such as the creation of “public supermarkets”, which in his opinion does not fit in Europe and dates back to moments like the existence of the iron curtain. Hence, the PP insists on its measure, which it has been repeating for almost a year, “that the VAT reduction that has taken place be completed, after the Government rejected it when the PP said so, with the VAT reduction as well of meat, fish and preserves”, which were left out of the Government’s measures.
It’s not just inflation. Mortgages is another issue that the PP believes can take its toll on the Government, because it is suffocating many families, since it has meant, for an average mortgage, an increase of 300 euros per month. The proposal of the PP is to reach an agreement with the bank, for the creation of a fund with which “to be able to reduce the tension to vulnerable families.”
That, and lowering taxes, which he insists on after the OECD report has established, Feijóo stressed that Spain is where the purchasing power of wages has fallen the most. Hence, he insists on the reduction of personal income tax for families with incomes of less than 40,000 euros, something that all the communities governed by the PP have already done, he said, but not Aragón and others in socialist hands.
The conclusion of the president of the PP is 42,000 million more revenue for the Government, which means that “when the people need it most, the taxes rise the most and the Government collects more, with which the Government lives very well and the people very evil”. Feijóo also looks at the data on the electricity collection surplus in Spain, which has reached 6,000 million euros, at a time when the rate has risen by 50%, “20% more than the European average,” he recalls.
Feijóo, and that is why he also has an alternative to this situation. “that this surplus be reduced by 4,000 million and with that money the rate for small consumers and electro-intensive companies be reduced.” Above all, Feijóo stressed, that this surplus “is not dedicated to the electoral campaign”, as Sánchez is doing with the announcements of all these days.
