The order of the factors has not altered the product, although it has shortened it. And after having harshly confronted each other early in the morning in the debate on international politics, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo participated, during the control session held this afternoon, in a face to face that was shorter than usual, although just as harsh. .
President of the Government and leader of the opposition have competed over who best defends the interests of the Spanish people: “You have dynamited the initials of your party: you are no longer a socialist, nor a worker, nor Spanish,” the PP leader snapped at him to Ask him if he plans to do something about it or if, on the contrary, he is going to exclusively defend his personal interests.
Sánchez has taken notes for his response and has buried Feijóo’s attack under a long list of economic data about employment -21 million people working-, economic growth -five times above that of the euro zone-, and revaluation of the pensions. “This Government is moving forward,” Sánchez added, “while in front of us we have a destructive opposition that is based on nothing and mud. He will continue in the opposition for four more years,” he predicted by way of finishing.
Feijóo has also pulled his punch in his reply, ensuring that Sánchez has raised taxes 69 times, we are the fifth country with the largest deficit in the EU, the fourth with the greatest increase in public debt. “We have less purchasing power than when you came to power. Thirteen million Spaniards live at risk of poverty.”
“We Spaniards have never been as poor as with you,” the Galician insisted, to which the socialist leader reminded him of some more information such as that the Spanish have one of the cleanest and cheapest energy in Europe, that tourism breaks records. , that there is also a record of foreign investment.
The icing on the cake with which Sánchez ended the national policy debate had a Catalan accent when he pointed out that the fact that “coexistence and reunion are making way in Catalonia in the face of the bankruptcy of the constitutional order that occurred when you governed is also defend the general interest.”
The witness has been picked up by the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, blaming the PP for the “social, institutional and political conflict” in Catalonia during the Government of Mariano Rajoy. For her part, the popular deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo has accused the Executive of “rewarding the crime” of the Catalan independence parties by granting them the amnesty law that forgives the process.
The PP deputy has also claimed that what her party did in 2017 was “to restore peace, which is the law”, referring to the application of article 155 of the Constitution.
