The President of the Government highlights that Spain has one of the lowest inflation rates in the European Union and highlights that the Executive is redistributing growth with fiscal responsibility, thanks to the country’s good economic performance. Sánchez has also highlighted the Executive’s management to improve coexistence in Catalonia.
During the control session in the Congress of Deputies, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, highlighted the actions of the Executive in economic matters. “Spain is in better shape than the European Union: we are growing five times more than the euro zone average,” he assured in his response to deputy Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of the PP Parliamentary Group.
“We have one of the lowest inflations, 21 million Social Security affiliates and we have a temporary employment rate of 16%,” continued Sánchez, who anticipates that 2023 will close with a public deficit of 3.7% of the Gross Domestic Product.
The president has explained that the Government is redistributing economic growth, revaluing pensions, raising the minimum interprofessional wage and strengthening public services and, according to Sánchez, it is doing so “with fiscal responsibility, thanks to the good economic performance of the country.”
In his response to the question about the political situation in Catalonia asked by deputy Miriam Nogueras, from the Junts per Catalunya Parliamentary Group, Pedro Sánchez recalled his Executive’s commitment to economic growth, the extension of rights and coexistence.
“There is a great lesson that we have to draw from all this time and that is that Catalonia cannot advance if it does so alone and does so divided, I believe that we must clearly commit to coexistence and that is what the Government of Spain is doing,” stated Sánchez, for whom the commitment to coexistence “means betting on self-government.”
In this context, the president has assured that with this government Catalonia has had “record public financing and investment from the General State Administration.” “More than 40% of resources have been transferred in these five years on average compared to the previous five years,” added Sánchez, who also recalled the launch of a dialogue table and the reactivation of the recognised bilateral commissions by the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in response to the question posed by Deputy Mertxe Aizpurua, of the Euskal Herria Bildu Parliamentary Group, recalled the expansive nature of the 2023 budgets, currently extended. And he has indicated that work is already underway “on the draft budget that we are going to present in the second half of the year for the year 2025.”
The Chief Executive has highlighted different initiatives that the Government has carried out since the date of the investiture, such as the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage or the revaluation of pensions. “We have brought to these Cortes Generales important laws that define this progressive coalition government, such as the parity law, the trafficking law, the family bill, and the artistic education bill,” he added.
Sánchez concluded his presentation by citing the investments that Euskadi has received until February: “2,914 million euro of European funds to reindustrialise Euskadi, almost 60,000 people have received the Minimum Living Income, more than half a million Basques have seen their pensions revalued and 61,000 workers have benefited from this increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage.”
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