Feijóo proposes support for families against those who only want to “impose their ideology”

2023-06-25 14:37:45

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured this Sunday that, in the face of the attempts of the Government to “impose family models for ideological reasons”, his party will support families with concrete measures. “Faced with those who seek to politicize families, we will not do it: what we will do will be good policies for families,” Feijóo stressed, in a pre-campaign event held in Salamanca.

For the leader of the PP, in the next elections “a model of society is at stake”, so “it is not about changing to change the government, but about guaranteeing the family models that we have in our country, helping them and not to impose our ideologies on them because they are ours”.

The PP candidate has reproached President Pedro Sánchez for having, in his five years in office, tried to politicize families and defined “correct or incorrect” family models; that he has presented “a very large list of types of families and a very small list of support measures”, a trend that the PP seeks to reverse. “We are going to help make Spain a good country to have children, and this is not done with more politics in their lives, but with concrete measures”, he said before going on to list them.

Feijóo has proposed four areas of specific attention with specific measures to support families, “because having a son or daughter cannot be a luxury”: birth, conciliation, early childhood education and social networks.

Thus, it has proposed to give employers a discount for hiring working mothers, increase the benefit for dependent children from the fifth month of pregnancy, increase the family minimum in personal income tax for the second and subsequent children, agree to the creation of a “bank of hours” with companies to ensure reconciliation and extend maternity and paternity leave for single-parent families, among others.

In terms of Education, Feijóo has assured that it is proposed to extend the hours of educational facilities to use them on vacations and long weekends, recover special education centers and guarantee children’s education from 0 to 3 years co-financed by the Government and the autonomies.

In addition, it has indicated that it is time to return to parents control of their children’s education and the interest in not leaving children unprotected before the Internet, for which it is proposed to agree with companies on the possibility of restricting access to certain content.

Feijóo thanked the Association of Mothers of Adolescents and Girls with Accelerated Dysphoria (Amanda) for their participation in the event, and the Autism Spain association, since “the exercise of humility of the politician who hopes to serve the citizens begins by listening to them” .