The Spanish will be able to compare, and that is why it will be an important day. The PP attaches great importance to the first face-to-face meeting that will take place between the Prime Minister and the leader of the main opposition party, after Alberto Núñez Feijóo has obtained his senator’s certificate, which will allow him to debate with Sánchez once a month.
“It’s going to be interesting, because we’re going to talk about the real Spain.” According to the general secretary of the PP and spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, “the Spanish will be able to verify the differences that exist in substance and in form between the two political leaders.”
Núñez Feijóo, according to Gamarra, will make these differences clear so that Spaniards “can compare two models of doing politics and governing.” On the one hand there will be that of Sánchez, who in the opinion of the PP represents “incompetence, tension and lack of credibility”, compared to what the president of the PP represents: “stability, growth and employment”.
Núñez Feijóo, who has submitted a question about whether Sánchez considers that “the Executive is up to the needs of Spanish families”, intends, according to his number two, to address the problems of the Spanish, compared to other sterile debates that in the opinion of the PP they are promoted by the Government. But in the debate not only the substance will be relevant, but the form, and thus, from the PP it is emphasized that Feijóo will question Sánchez, “from respect, parliamentary courtesy and good manners.”
The PP rejects other types of behavior, such as that of the Andalusian PP president, Manuel Pezzi, who called Feijóo “silly cocks”, for praising his sunset in Granada, although he assured that he stayed with the sunsets in Finisterre, in his land native.
The popular consider it very necessary that the President of the Government and the leader of the main opposition party talk about the problems of the Spanish, after a week in which, once again, “the economic situation marks the political news”, with the data known, which lead the PP to consider that “the Government has become a drag on economic growth and well-being”, with skyrocketing inflation, funds and direct aid “that do not arrive” and an average price of electricity which stands today at 186 percent more than a year ago.
Cuca Gamarra also referred to the unfulfilled promises in this area by Sánchez, who stuck his neck out with “the Iberian exception” in February, and which has not been reflected in the electricity bill for April or May, and from what is seen it will not have an impact on June either.
Given this, and the fact that the measures to fight inflation have not worked, in the opinion of the PP, the popular leadership is once again putting its anti-crisis plan on the table, highlighting the reduction in VAT on electricity and of hydrocarbons up to 5%, as well as a deflation of personal income tax. The position of the PP is that “the Government does not continue collecting, but that the excess collection goes so that the Spanish have disposable income.” The only thing that has changed since the PP made its proposal, said Gamarra, is that then there was an excess of collection of 9,000 million, and now that figure is already 13,200 million.
The PP proposal also emphasizes “inefficient spending”, which according to a study by the Institute of Economic Studies would amount to 60,000 million, in addition to reformulating the management of European funds. The PP stressed that, contrary to what the Spokesperson Minister, Isabel Rodríguez, said, there has been no contact between the Government and the PP to negotiate the new package of measures.
The difference that can be seen tomorrow in the debate in the Senate between Pedro Sánchez and Núñez Feijóo, is what can be seen, said Gamarra, in the Andalusian campaign, where “the only party that thinks of Andalusia and the Andalusians is the PP, the only party, moreover, that offers, he said, “a government that has stability.”
