- The PP will take to the next plenary session of Parliament an initiative to reject the central government's economic, fiscal and labour policy and to request that the rise in VAT and energy prices be temporarily halted
- The Popular Party will create a prize in memory of the recently deceased deputy for Seville, María Díaz Cañete, to annually recognise people or entities that stand out for their capacity for dialogue
The spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Andalusian Parliament, Toni Martín, has flatly rejected “the economic, fiscal and labour policy” of Pedro Sánchez’s Government and has announced that the PP will bring to the next plenary session of the Andalusian Chamber an initiative with which it intends to “react” to the measures of the central Executive which, together with the uncontrolled inflation of recent times, “have caused a rapid impoverishment of Spanish and Andalusian families and also of the productive sectors, which has led to the rate of risk of impoverishment in Spain being the one that has grown the most in the European Union”.
The Non-Law Proposal that the spokesperson presented at a press conference, and which bears the title Impoverishment of families, “The parliamentary spokesperson explained that the impoverishment has been evident since Pedro Sánchez became president and, in particular, since inflation has grown out of control.
“We reject the economic policy of the Spanish Government, based on expansive and unreasonable growth in public spending, on a huge increase in tax pressure, which means that today a Spanish family has to spend 3.800 euros more in taxes each year than they did before Sánchez was president, and which contrasts completely with the fiscal policy that Juanma Moreno applies in Andalusia,” said Toni Martín.
The spokesman stressed that "Andalusia hardly has any taxes to lower, which has led us to be the second community in Spain after Madrid with the lowest tax pressure," while defending that "the money does not have to be in the pocket of the
Administration so that it is not the politicians who decide how it is spent, but in the pockets of the Spanish and Andalusian people, who are the best ones to decide how it is spent, to generate a more dynamic economy and more employment, and greater revenue that will be converted into more and better public services."
In addition to rejecting Sánchez's economic and fiscal measures, Toni Martín has also criticised the central government's labour policy, "based on reforms that were intended to bring more jobs, but the reality is that jobs are of lower quality and also cause lower productivity than ever in Spain," he said. In the initiative that will be taken to the Plenary Session next week, the PP will also ask "that the increase in VAT on essential items and energy be temporarily halted until Spaniards and Andalusians can recover their purchasing power, which has been so diminished in these years of uncontrolled inflation."
On the other hand, Toni Martín explained that, as happened in relation to the initiative debated in the last Plenary Session on the modification of the Basic Statute of Public Employees on access to public employment for people with intellectual disabilities, in which the Popular Group will give part of its votes to the proposing group (For Andalusia) so that it can be present in the Congress of Deputies to defend the initiative; the PP will proceed in the same way so that the Adelante Andalucía Group can do the same when the time comes regarding the Bill on Free Optical Products and Visual Health, which will also be debated in the Plenary Session next week in the Andalusian Parliament. “It is only fair that it should be like this and majorities sometimes count for this too,” said the PP spokesperson.
On the other hand, the parliamentary spokesman for the PP has announced that the Popular Parliamentary Group has unanimously decided to establish an annual award that will bear the name of María Díaz Cañete, “our beloved colleague”, who recently passed away and that “will be given to a person or an institution that has stood out in Andalusia for its capacity for understanding, dialogue and consensus”. “With this gesture we hope that María will always remain in the memory of all the deputies of Parliament and very particularly of those of us who make up the Popular Group”, said Martín. The date of presentation of this award will most likely be June 28, the date of the inauguration of the parliamentarian as a deputy, according to the spokesman.
SAS Contracts Commission: “Smokescreen of the opposition”
Regarding the opposition's request for a commission of inquiry into the contracts in the Andalusian Health Service, in the opinion of Toni Martín, this request "is a smokescreen" and "is more due to the impotence of certain opposition groups, who see how the years go by and are unable to undermine either the President of the Andalusian Government or his Government, and take initiatives of this type, trying to make it seem that we are all equal and we are not all equal," he stressed.
“Andalusia had a party, the PSOE, which is the party of corruption and still, six years after leaving the Government, the headlines of the news are about the FAFFE, the ERE, the dark period of corruption in Andalusia,” he said. In contrast, in his opinion, “the PP is the party that has come to banish corruption from Andalusia forever” and he assured that currently “the opposition has had all the information about the SAS contracts at all times, something that the PP never had when it was in the opposition,” he concluded.
