After hitting rock bottom in the 2020 Basque Parliament elections, the PP aspires to recover positions in the Basque Country by focusing the debate on economic matters and focusing on the PNV as a rival to beat, after the jeltzales have fished in their electoral fishing grounds. During the last years. The popular candidate for Lehendakari, Javier de Andrés, has been talking during the Basque pre-campaign about “loss of weight of the Basque economy”, about “excessive intervention by the Administration” or the turn to the left of the PNV, and this Friday he has been escorted by Alberto Nuñez Feijóo to influence these arguments. The popular leader has questioned Jeltzale’s economic management and that he “accepts” the Government’s actions in economic matters.
During a visit to the Teknia company, in Bizkaia, Feijóo assured that his party “will not compete in sovereignty or separatism with the PNV, Bildu and the Socialist Party”, but will work “obsessed by the economic growth of the Basque Country, by the energy, industry, housing or to be able to finance good public services.”
From there, the popular leader has criticized the PNV, accusing it of having assumed the economic policies of its partners in Congress. “I hope that Euskadi does not begin a decline as a consequence of assuming the economic policies of the PSOE and Sumar, which have nothing to do with reality and the Basque industry,” he indicated. The popular leader has also regretted that the PNV “looks the other way” and does not make a “claim regarding the alleged cases of corruption in the financing of European funds by the central government.”
Feijóo has also questioned the economic situation in the Basque Country, in line with Javier de Andrés’ line during the Basque pre-campaign, and has put on the table the fall in foreign investment, “which goes from representing 16% to 5 ,5%”. “Euskadi has always been a reference in industry and energy, but we are beginning to see symptoms of stagnation and slowdown,” he noted.
The popular leader has made an even more critical reading of the economic situation in Spain as a whole, which in his opinion is losing “leadership and industrial weight” in Europe, while foreign investment is contracting.” “In the last five years we have seen an absolute lack of industrial policy and an ideologization of energy policy that leads to a slowdown in GDP. “We are not in a good economic moment no matter what the Government says,” he stated. Feijóo has also accused the Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, of having “caused an unprecedented confrontation between Repsol and Iberdrola.”
The popular leader, finally, has invited to take “the data of the last five years on debt, deficit, GDP, investment capture, competitiveness or purchasing power.” “Spain would be among the three worst countries of the 27,” he indicated, in obvious contrast to the official figures and which, in his opinion, would be “make-up.”
