The drought that half of Spain is suffering was yesterday the electoral argument of the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In Granada he undertook to bring “water where there is none”. A cause, he assured, for which “it is well worth winning a general election”.
Feijóo spent the whole day in Andalusia, one of the communities that suffers the greatest straits resulting from the persistent drought and where water has become the object of political dispute. In the case of Andalusia, for the exploitation of the resources – according to the opinion of the experts, non-existent – of the Doñana aquifers.
Feijóo knows that the shortage of water is one of the most urgent problems facing agricultural holdings in this region and a large part of the Mediterranean coast. For this reason, accompanied by the president of the Board of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, Feijóo assured that “between you and I we will put the water in Andalusia, it is my personal, political and institutional commitment”.
Feijóo and Moreno starred in a party event in a hot GarcÃa Lorca park in Granada to support their mayoral candidate, Marifrán Carazo, who aspires to become the city’s first female mayor.
For Feijóo, the change that came to Andalusia a year ago – when Moreno obtained the majority that has guaranteed him a stable government in the community without the need to count on his eventual ally, Vox – “will arrive in a few days in Granada. And it is the change that will come to Spain in a few months” and he added that what had happened in Andalusia reminds him of “that change in 1982 by Felipe González”. “Spain, for the first time, voted with a majority for the socialist party to consolidate democracy, and looking at that PSOE and the current one, it is clear that Spain got it right in 1982” he assured, making an implicit criticism of Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE.
“I want to win the elections so that the Spaniards win the changes they have been waiting for a long time. I want a united country, I want citizens to trust politics again, I want to be the best version of real politics, and for that we will all work together”, he assured.
His intention, he assured, is to “prove that things can be done in a different way”, that “in the face of the politics that confronts” – of which he accused Sanchismo and its partners – another one will be made that “adds and contributes”, which works “for the citizens and for the citizens” and not for the obsession of being in power. “Faced with a policy that legislates based on nyaps, a policy that makes laws for the citizens”.
Feijóo lamented the loss of purchasing power of wages due to inflation and criticized Sánchez for once promising an income pact that he has never fulfilled and which, in his opinion, could create more jobs “of quality”.
In this sense, he celebrated that unions and employers are about to close an agreement to raise wages, “despite the Spanish Government’s attempts to confront them”.
From the PP, they emphasized that workers and employers will never be “insulted, nor will they be confronted, so that the Spanish can regain purchasing power” and asked the Spanish Government to stop “stinging” the middle classes with increases of taxes and has demanded that the personal income tax be lowered for the lowest incomes and that the VAT be reduced on foods such as meat, fish or canned goods.
