Gabriel Rufian began his speech at a congressional meeting on Wednesday with a completely anti-parliamentary phrase. “Doubt is a sign of strength.” The president’s administration had to call him in order and ask him to remove his words from the session log. The custom on chairs is the opposite. The whole of Europe may be shrouded in uncertainty and the darkest signs of a possible recession, but politicians in Spain are clear about everything. If they are in opposition, reasonable suspicion is synonymous with betrayal.
Before the plenary session began with the unusual appearance of Pedro Sanchez, information about the latest CPI data fell on MPs. Annual inflation is already 9.8%. This will again be the worst data in Europe, partly also because of the electricity tariff being set in Spain and this is causing huge profits for electricity companies. It seems that the EU is ready to allow the Spanish government to impose restrictions on this system. Do not hurry. March inflation is the worst since 1985, when several readers of this newspaper have not yet been born.
First of all, what is happening in Europe now is war. Sanchez has a figure to measure this influence. “The 73% increase in prices is explained by the price of energy and unprocessed food. And all this was exacerbated by the war in Ukraine,” he said, citing an assessment by the Ministry of Economy. It may sound like the government is looking for bulletproof vests to protect itself from opposition attacks and population unrest. The fact is that the economic press of the whole continent speaks of nothing but the impact of the invasion of Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. The same is wrong or bought by Sanchez. Von der Leyen is in the boat, of course.
The question is what the government is doing to reduce these impacts. This is within your responsibility. Sanchez explained the measures announced this week with $ 6,000 million in direct aid that will be in effect for three months. This is where the suspicion that Rufiani was talking about should arise, because it would be naive to think that serious economic problems would then be solved.
For the right-wing everything is declared a lost opportunity. Due to lost taxes. everyone. Among them, half of which goes to the treasury of the Autonomous Communities, led by the People’s Party, which inevitably demands an increase in funds received from the central state to make up for the difference. Otherwise there would be a scandal. “The Spaniards can not demand more sacrifices as long as you live as king,” said Kuka Gamara.
Sanchez’s pay is lower than that of Gamara – although the president spends nothing on housing – so we have to conclude that the PP speaker was doing a metaphor.
A few days ago, Alberto Nunez Feio in an interview showed that he was ready to reach some agreements with the government to reduce public spending. This was already news. In fact, it’s a very specific part of the cost. “There are many places to cut costs: political public spending and bureaucratic, unproductive public spending,” he told La Razón. That was Vox’s message to this legislature, and Feio thinks it makes sense.
Proof that a reduction in the number of ministries – which is high in a coalition government – and in some public companies and civil servants may be relevant in a country with a debt of 121% of GDP and a state budget of 458,000 million. It is said that citizens believe that they can pay for purchases with monopoly tickets. If there are, they are the only ones buying the idea of how important it is to reduce “unproductive” costs. It is very unproductive to have politicians who use such an argument.
The plenary also had explanations from Sanchez in favor of changing the government’s position on the Sahara in favor of the Moroccan autonomy proposal. The president did not provide more information than Jose Manuel Albares provided to the Foreign Affairs Committee. No one knows exactly what Morocco will give in return because its government has not said so. Sanchez did not resolve the opposition’s demand for unity in times of crisis and war, but in the event of one of the most important foreign policy decisions during his presidency, no one hoped and informed no one beforehand. Rabat knew the news was not surprising that no one in Congress supported him.
In this gloomy time, which has been practically all since 2020, Josep Borrell was the last to raise his hair about what awaits us: “We must be ready for a world in which hunger will appear. First one. We had a plague (with coronavirus); “Then we have a war and now there is a famine.” Meanwhile, Congress remains unchanged in its style. There is something stone in Spanish politics. The world is trembling, but we stand firm.
Source: El Diario
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