Pedro Sánchez deploys the umbrella of his economic management to protect himself from the intense political downpour unleashed by the Popular Party and the extreme right of Vox. And to try to protect themselves from the controversies that threaten the Government, they tighten the seams of the coalition between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos, and fuel the controversies over their agreements with ERC or EH Bildu, before the imminent new electoral cycle.
The President of the Government exhibited yesterday the reduction in unemployment, just as since last Tuesday he wields the drop in inflation, as a success of his economic measures and anti-crisis plans.
In Moncloa and the leadership of the PSOE they warn, in line with this strategy, of a change of record in the speech of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his team: “The PP no longer wants to talk about the economy, because the economy is going well”, they highlight . And this is so, insist the socialists, despite the uncertainties caused by the global energy and inflationary crisis as a result of the war in Ukraine.
The maintenance of economic growth and the creation of employment, the increase in affiliation to Social Security and pensions, the reduction of the electricity bill, or that Spain is already positioned as the country in the entire euro zone where less The cost of living rises, in addition to general State budgets for next year already guaranteed, and with the largest social investment in history, are precisely the arguments with which Sánchez tries to support that he governs, as he always says, ” for the social majority.
And they are also the arguments with which the head of the Executive tries to combat the right-wing discourse that he governs only for his own interests, for those of his partners in the Government, United We Can, and for those of his parliamentary allies, singularly ERC and EH Bildu. The alliances that do the most damage to the PSOE, to begin with, before the next municipal and regional elections in May.
Sánchez exhibits economic management, in addition, to avoid the numerous controversies that wear out his mandate and threaten the electoral expectations of the PSOE, such as the undesired consequences of the application by some judges of the law that only yes is yes, with reductions in sentences to sexual offenders; or the ongoing reform of the Penal Code to replace the crime of sedition for which the procés pro-independence leaders were convicted. Questions, precisely, on which the right-wing offensive against Sánchez revolves.
“In the last four months, with great difficulty and deploying many resources, we have managed to bend the inflation curve with greater intensity than any other country in the euro zone,” the President of the Government celebrated yesterday, presenting an industrial development project in Jaen. “In November – he added -, employment is maintained and unemployment has fallen by more than 33,000 people, in the second best record in all history”. “Despite the uncertainty caused by Putin and his invasion of the Ukraine, Spain is moving forward. We are weathering the difficulties much better than the European countries. And the figures are clear: this year, Spain is going to grow more, it is going to create more jobs and it is going to reduce unemployment more than most of the countries around us, and we have the lowest inflation in the entire euro zone” Sanchez stressed.
The government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, used in the same sense the “facts and data” of the lowest level of unemployment in the last 15 years, the more than 20 million employed, or the two million young people with a permanent contract. “Some political groups are interested in talking about other issues, instead of talking about what interests the vast majority of Spaniards, which is the progress of the economy and employment,” he warned in the face of the right-wing offensive for the effects of the Law of Sexual Freedom or the reform of sedition. “Feijóo arrived as leader of the opposition saying that he was only going to talk about the economy, and he has not spoken at all about the economy for a long time, because, fortunately, the progress of the economy in our country is going well,” Rodríguez settled on TVE.
