The PP deputy secretary for Health and Social Policy, Carmen Fúnez, has predicted that the general strike called for next Wednesday 11 will be "an outright failure, sell it as you will". She has questioned "what objective is pursued" by a mobilization of this kind just 15 days before the general elections on 29N and has underlined that it already "was a mistake before the Urda accident and now it is a lack of respect for all Spaniards".
Fúnez has expressed herself this way at a press conference held at the PPCV headquarters in València, two days before the general strike called across the country by the unions CCOO and UGT in defense of the right to housing.
The official, who is running for the elections as the lead candidate for the PP for Ciudad Real, has said that her party "trusts in Spanish society" and that, for this reason, she is convinced that this "electoral" strike, called "against the opposition, not against the Government", will be "an outright failure" because "it makes no sense at all".
"You cannot pull the wool over Spanish society's eyes," she has stressed, to underscore that a family that cannot make ends meet does not understand this call when there is an Executive that "boasts" of a record in tax collection, set at 325,000 million euros in 2025.
The 'popular' official has recalled that, in her view, the former Minister of Finance María Jesús Montero herself already made the "assessment" of this strike at a PSOE rally, "by saying that it was not a strike against the Government that has created a very poor middle class, nor against the Government that has made the housing problem the first, nor against the Government that has weakened public services".
"It is a general strike against the opposition, an electoral strike --she insisted. Of course, it was a mistake before the Urda accident and now it is an outright lack of respect not only for the Partido Popular, but for all Spaniards".
Next, she defended that "Spaniards know where the unions have been in recent years, at least UGT and Workers' Commissions: they have not been demanding improvements in working conditions, nor improvements in the living conditions of Spaniards". "And now they intend to come to the election campaign by strengthening a government that has weakened the workers of this country," she criticized.