The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has opted this Friday not to publicly criticize the words of his second vice president and minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, about Junts, and has focused his reproaches on the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and on that of Vox, Santiago Abascal.
In the press conference following the Spain-Brazil bilateral summit held in Barcelona, Sánchez has underlined that it is Feijóo and Abascal who, in his opinion, have made "racist and also xenophobic statements, linking migration with insecurity".
The head of the Executive responded to this question when Díaz had already left the press room, since she left before the journalists conveyed this question to Sánchez.
The day before, Díaz had accused Junts of being a racist and classist party, statements that led Carles Puigdemont's party to suspend its relations with Sumar until the vice president rectifies.
For Sánchez, a sign that Feijóo and Abascal promote these types of policies is the government agreement that PP and Vox have reached in Extremadura and which, as he has emphasized, does not reflect the majority sentiment of Spanish society.
Before entering into valuing these issues, the president had already emphatically defended the extraordinary regularization process for migrants, about which he has said: "I am very happy that the Government has made this decision, because we are making Spain a better country".
Along the same lines, he has insisted that "we are setting an example for the world, setting an example also of solidarity and openness to Europe, and good things will come out of this regularization process, certainly a much better country."
Negotiations on Personal Income Tax and Budgets in Catalonia
In relation to the conversations between Salvador Illa's Government and ERC to move forward with the Catalan Budgets, Sánchez has neither revealed details nor clarified if the eventual transfer of the IRPF will be applied in 2028.
He limited himself to pointing out that "regarding the agreements of the legislature of the Generalitat of Catalonia and also of the Government of Spain, well, we are negotiating and working on them", thus considering any additional precision closed.