The lack of self-criticism of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, in his assessment of 2023 was replaced 24 hours later by the head of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with an analysis that leaves the Spanish Government and the PSOE ” outside the Constitution and dignity”. The leader of the PP confirmed his training in the only constitutionalist party or, in his own words, “the common house of Spanish constitutionalism”.
In a scenario with the slogan “a Spain without walls” on the back, Feijóo described the current coalition government as “the weakest, with less words and less ethics” that Spain has had. Sánchez “is finding it increasingly difficult to deceive the Spanish”, he warned.
Yesterday, the president of the PP made a black balance in the economic field – which countered the laudatory speech of Sánchez the day before –, black in the institutional and democratic aspect and black from the ethical point of view.
It was in this last aspect where Feijóo was harsher, because, in his opinion, Sánchez “crossed all the lines”. Proof of this, he said, was what, almost at the same time he appeared, was happening in Pamplona, ??where the motion of censure that the mayor’s office submitted to Bildu was being debated with the votes, among other forces, of four councilors of the PSN.
“Spain has not won a progressive mayor’s office but has lost a state party”, said Feijóo. The PSOE preferred to “end the year toasting with Bildu”, he added. According to the leader of the PP, what happened yesterday in Pamplona places the PSOE “outside the Constitution and dignity”.
Faced with this dark panorama, Feijóo pledged to “fight against amnesty, against amnesia, against lies and in favor of the interests of the Spanish”.
In their diagnosis, these interests pass, first of all, through the economic field, to admit a bleak panorama from their point of view. Spain is “one of the worst economies in the European Union, where taxes have grown the most, which has more debt, more unemployment, more waiting lists, more poverty and more school dropouts”, he argued.
Feijóo went so far as to affirm that the Spanish have “the same purchasing power as 15 years ago” and that they have paid 58,000 million more in taxes to a Government that has indebted them and suffers from an “out of control” deficit of 4%, while Portugal, he stressed, with a “yes social democratic” Government, has one of 0.4%.
A country, continued the head of the opposition, with one in four people on the poverty line, with eight million Spaniards who are in energy poverty and which is the third worst in school dropout rate.
Feijóo’s conclusion is forceful: “Apart from his partners, who have economic and criminal privileges, no one has won” this year 2023 with the Sánchez Government.
Despite this, or because of this, the leader of the PP reaches out to the Government to find solutions, starting with the social measures decree approved on Wednesday. “I am ready to help if the Government’s arrogance allows it to receive support”, he offered, although he made it a condition for the deflation of the personal income tax rate and the lowering of the VAT on meat and fish.
During the journalists’ question period, the leader of the PP had to speak about the recent incident involving Vox councilor Javier Ortega Smith at the Madrid City Council. He, like the mayor of the capital, believes that the Vox councilor should resign due to his “inadmissible” behavior.
