Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP has not received any call or notice from the Government of Pedro Sánchez to talk about the new General State Budget project for 2023, nor does it expect it.
On the contrary.
The popular leader and his team disqualified them as "the most antisocial" in their entirety, before considering the difficult hypothesis that the PSOE would include them in the round of contacts that will begin this week to obtain support with which to overcome their parliamentary debate .
Both Feijóo and his spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, dismissed them as the accounts "that Spain and the Spanish do not need" and as the "counterpart" that his usual partners in Congress will demand from the president "to keep him another year in The Moncloa”.
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Feijóo has questioned the Budget project recently agreed between the PSOE and United We Can, and approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, describing those accounts as "antisocial" and linking them to the current and acrimonious fiscal debate.
"For a government to talk about increasing social spending when Spaniards have never paid so many taxes, and that at this time all incomes pay the same taxes as the highest incomes, that is the most antisocial thing we remember," said the popular president.
The leader of the PP has also criticized the internal situation of the Government itself, despite the agreement between the two partners, and has also charged against their foreseeable parliamentary alliances: "That in Spain it is news that the Government agrees with itself proves the situation”, Feijóo has complained.
And he has stressed: "This country has spent four years with a divided and confronted government and now it has to agree with its partners, ERC and Bildu."
The argument used by Feijóo has been immediately replicated by his spokesman in Congress.
Gamarra has expressed that he was disconcerted by "the triumphalism" that he observed on the part of the Government ministers who presented on Tuesday the guidelines of the public accounts for the coming year.
He has listed and collected all the data, perspectives and negative or pessimistic forecasts that lie in wait for the economic situation for the coming months to underline: “Watch out, curves are coming”.
And he added: “These Budgets are not what Spain and the Spanish people need, but rather those that will allow Pedro Sánchez to continue for another year in La Moncloa with his Frankenstein Government in exchange for items that we do not know and at a very high price, as is improve the situation of ETA prisoners with Bildu;
of the dialogue table and pardons with ERC;
Feijóo's PP insists that the Government's plans and forecasts are all wrong and defends that the only alternative is theirs: deflate the first three sections of personal income tax;
extend the VAT reduction on electricity throughout the winter and also on basic products;
and lower to 4% the tax on diapers.
Gamarra has stressed that the PGE project for 2023 "is not social justice but ideological" and has expressed his fear of "the compensation" that the Government's allies will now demand.
The PP spokeswoman has supported this concern in the different press conferences of the usual partners, ERC and EH Bildu in particular, who this Tuesday have warned that they will demand more social measures and transfers and will make the Executive "sweat" to achieve their support, essential for the accounts to move forward.
those partners,
The PP, Vox and Ciudadanos have coincided this Tuesday in harshly questioning whether these Budgets are the ones that Spain needs now or the ones that are going to quantify the most social investment, as the PSOE spokesman, Patxi López, has presumed.
The socialist leader had also taken the opportunity to praise the fact that the president himself, Pedro Sánchez, had asked to appear in Congress (October 13) and in the Senate (18) to explain these measures and "collate and contrast" his model of support for the middle classes and the most disadvantaged against the alternative of the PP of Feijóo.
Sánchez will repeat in this way on October 18 a melee with Feijóo (who is a senator and not a deputy).
Both starred in a bitter face-to-face in September, from which in La Moncloa they think that Sánchez came out well.
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