Pensions are something very serious and they can twist a march towards La Moncloa. And Alberto Núñez Feijóo is not willing to have things go wrong now due to “an inaccuracy”. Yesterday he committed it in an interview on TVE, and today, on Antena 3, in an interview on Espejo Público, he has admitted that he said that inaccuracy, but maintains that he did not lie.
“I did not lie, nor am I lying. If I say something wrong, I am not lying, it is the result of inaccuracy and I rectify it.” And he explained the inaccuracy. He said on TVE that the PP governments had always raised pensions in accordance with the CPI, and the reality is that inflation was equal to or exceeded the increase in 2014, 2016 and 2018, while they rose below the CPI in 2012, in 2013 and in 2017.
With these data, the president of the PP insisted on his approaches. that “it was Zapatero who froze pensions, for the first time, and Sánchez voted in favor of freezing while he was a deputy.” That the PP “assumed the government of Spain in a complicated situation, and always raised pensions, never froze them”, although once, he stressed, it did not do so according to the CPI. “That is the inaccuracy and I have admitted it immediately, because when an inaccuracy is said, it must be rectified, although there are those who do not distinguish the truth from the lie.”
Asked about what the PP will do with pensions, if it governs from July 23, the president of the PP explained that first it will be to make an analysis of what the situation of the system is, the second to have a forecast of the number of pensioners that will to be in the coming years, when those born in the 1960s join the baby boom, and then sit down with the social agents to find a way to raise pensions according to the CPI, guaranteeing the sustainability of the system”.
And it is that, Feijóo assured, what the Government of Pedro Sánchez sent to Europe as a pension reform, has a final provision that talks about reviewing the system to see if the balance that was raised is maintained, and if it does not admit two possibilities or raise contributions or lower pensions. In his opinion, this must be avoided, and it can only be achieved with economic growth that implies an increase in contributors.
After this rectification to this inaccuracy, Feijóo maintains that he does not lie, and that one of the main characteristics that a president of government must have is “to tell the truth to the people”, and recalled that much has been said about his “inaccuracy”. on Monday on TVE, but none of those committed by the Prime Minister in the face-to-face debate on Atresmedia, which his team, in an analysis made, estimated at 38. He also asked that team for any inaccuracies that he may have committed , and cited two.
The first has to do with the file of the Pegasus case, through which the telephone of the President of the Government was spied on, among others, due to the lack of collaboration of the Spanish Executive. Despite admitting the inaccuracy, he stresses that the judge’s order that he archives also speaks of the fact that the state attorney or the attorney general, that is, the Government, would have been logical to ask the Israeli Government to collaborate.
The second inaccuracy was about the debt of Galicia, which Feijóo said during the debate that it was the community with the least debt, and this is the case among the communities of the general regime, but not if one takes into account those of the foral regime, that is to say Basque Country and Navarre.
On how he is going to try to govern alone with the data provided by the polls, except for the one from the CIS, which the president of the PP considers could begin to resemble an embezzlement of public funds, Feijóo stressed that having around 150 seats would be “extraordinary” and that “whatever it is to go up from there, magnificent”, although “it is very difficult, which does not mean that it is impossible” In any case, the president of the PP speaks of “a powerful majority and of concentrating the vote” .”
My main problem, at this moment, is that the vote is concentrated” and that is why he appeals to the “useful vote” of everyone who wants to change the government”, and that Spain has “a strong government, without the need for a coalition, because the coalitions with the extremes are not good”.
And in search of this objective, he finds that “Vox and the PSOE want the same thing”, and exclaimed “what would Sánchez do without Vox, he would be left without a campaign”, although “I have nothing to do with Vox, nor my party “. It is they, Vox and PSOE, who have the same objective “they want the PP to have fewer deputies”, although they recognize a difference, Vox, wants to govern with the PP.
