Pedro Sánchez has always liked to dynamite clichés in Spain. For example, that the right is the one who manages the economy more effectively, while the left limits itself to skyrocketing public spending to deploy its social agenda and advances in rights. Instead, the Prime Minister wants to capitalize on the best of both worlds, and in this 28-M campaign he defends his economic management, with a cascade of figures and data, while remembering that all social progress in Spain bears the signature of PSOE And it is what he also wants to confront directly with the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, before the general elections scheduled for next December.
“In these elections we are going out to win and to compete in management!”, warned Sánchez during the rally he led yesterday in Albacete. “If something has become clear these years, it’s that the right always wins in insults and noise, but not in management”, pointed out the president. “We, the management”, he insisted. This, he believes, is his best political capital to stop the cycle change that Feijóo is driving.
The leader of the PSOE assured that the “neoliberal recipes” that Mariano Rajoy implemented a decade ago to deal with the financial crisis not only failed, but also caused great social “pain” in terms of inequality. Some recipes that, he insisted, are the only ones that Feijóo wants to republish if he manages to get to Moncloa.
Sánchez thus listed, as milestones of his Government management, the labor reform and the revaluation of pensions, the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage, the deployment of European funds to reindustrialize the country and modernize its productive fabric, or the “Iberian solution” to reduce the price of light.
The president celebrated that, very contrary to the gloomy prognoses of the right, the consequence of all these measures is that economic growth is maintained, employment increases, the public deficit is reduced and inflation is cut in half, a fact that places Spain as one of the countries with the lowest rate in the entire eurozone, only behind Luxembourg. And, moreover, without social conflict. “Spain is the country with the greatest social peace in Europe!”, he cried. “And all the social advances have been made despite the PP, without the PP and with the PP against”, he denounced. Feijóo’s party, he assured, only “squares itself in front of the powerful”.
Sánchez assured that he was proud of the “piece of president” of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano GarcÃa-Page, who nevertheless did not accompany him to the rally, as he had another event in Talavera. Yes, he did it during the previous visit that the Chief Executive made to the Skydweller company, where he attended the demonstration of a prototype of an unmanned solar plane. Sánchez highlighted the “historic figures” of direct foreign investment in Spain in 2022 of more than 34,000 million euros, “result of the confidence offered by our country for its legal security, human capital, public support, institutional stability and social peace
