In a new face-to-face in Congress between the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has urged Pedro Sáchez to not take advantage of the Iran conflict to push through a new omnibus decree and has demanded that he “copy” the PP in the initiatives proposed to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices.
In his response, the head of the Executive has reproached him that he is already “putting the bandage before the wound” and has demanded that he clarify “whether he supports or not the war of Trump and Israel in Iran”.
Feijóo asks Sánchez to stop "squeezing" Spaniards
With two days to go until the Council of Ministers gives the green light to a new package of measures against the consequences of the war, Feijóo has accused Sánchez, during the Plenary Session of Congress, of “taking advantage” of the situation and has warned him that, in his opinion, every day that the Government “collects more”, citizens “have less”. The leader of the PP has insisted that the Executive is using the international crisis to increase tax pressure.
In this vein, Feijóo has demanded of the president that he stop "squeezing" Spaniards. "I warn you, Mr. Sánchez, don't even think about bringing the measures in an omnibus decree, as you did with pensions. For once, do the right thing and copy the measures that the PP presented two weeks ago: lower income tax, VAT on energy, fuel taxes, professional diesel", and stop squeezing Spaniards," he demanded of him.
Sánchez asks the PP to "rectify"
In his reply during the government control session in the Plenary of Congress, Sánchez has defended that his Cabinet “does assume its responsibilities”, while, according to him, the PP “is already putting the bandage on before the wound”. The president has framed the opposition's attitude within a strategy of systematic rejection of the Executive's initiatives.
“He is already telling us that he is going to vote against the royal decree-law to protect people as they did during the pandemic, as they have done during the trade war, as they have done during all the crises that this Government has had to manage”, Sánchez has reproached the PP leader, accusing him of repeating the same pattern in every complicated situation.
Furthermore, Sánchez has reproached Feijóo for not specifying “whether he supports or not Trump and Israel's war in Iran”. “You cannot encourage and support those who set fires and then complain about those who cause that fire,” he snapped at him, demanding that the PP “rectify.” The head of the Executive has insisted that the popular party's position on the international conflict must be unequivocal.