The President of the Government appears in the Senate to report on the economic and social measures to mitigate the consequences of the war in Ukraine
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, reproached the PP on Tuesday for entering “in tax disputes” at a time that he has described as “hard”. He did so while he was appearing in the Senate at his own request to account for the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine. An appointment that also served Moncloa to confront two anti-crisis models with the PP, especially due to the presence of its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the upper house. With whom he had his third face-to-face in the legislature.
Without making any reference to the negotiations for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CPGJ), which were resumed between PSOE and PP last week. Sánchez began his intervention by detailing the measures of his Government, such as the energy saving plan, which he has defined as “supportive” and “ambitious”. The president assured, with the help of a graph, that Spain “is the country where inflation has fallen the most” in recent months, a fact on which he relied to reduce the drama of the current situation.
Regarding the consequences of the war for Europe, Sánchez considered that the EU nations “are bending” their dependence on Russian gas and predicted that inflation “will continue to fall.”
However, the president does not spare hot cloths for the future performance of the Spanish economy, especially on the same day that Funcas decided to lower the growth forecast for the Spanish economy to 0.7% (compared to 2.1% that the Government foresees), “there may be critical moments, but we Spaniards will overcome this crisis, as we overcome the pandemic”.
Precisely, the head of the Executive defended that the coalition plan to respond to the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with that of the pandemic, “a success”, in the words of Sánchez, who warns that “if in the pandemic the The objective was to bend the curve of the pandemic, now it’s time to bend gas prices and inflation.
“Social” way out of the crisis
Sánchez insisted again, as he did last Thursday in Congress, on the “social” way out of the crisis, a model that happens “because those who have the most pay.” «All the resources of the State are going to be at the service of the social shield. What we must do is distribute the costs of the crisis fairly, so that they do not fall as usual on ordinary people.
Moncloa is convinced that measures such as the joint purchase of gas or the reform of the electricity market to decouple gas prices will become a model for Brussels. A double victory after the PP harshly criticized them in Congress. “It would be good if they recognized the mistake, they called it a European scam,” the president pointed out.
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