2023-09-26 15:14:27
The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government of Spain, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has presented his economic plan in the investiture debate, whose main axes include raising the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to 60% of the average salary but negotiated with entrepreneurs, lower the income tax for 90% of Spaniards, end all tax pressure for new entrepreneurs, make the labor market more flexible through a bank of hours to reconcile, urgent plan against inflation, business investment plan in digitalization and ecological transition, more land supply to make housing for young people and new impetus to the most deteriorated staff of the Administration, such as Health or Justice.
To this end, Feijóo has announced a plan with an extraordinary contribution of 6,000 million euros to reinforce aid to families, both large, single-parent and the most vulnerable, with greater support for the middle classes. It will also facilitate access to housing and increase conciliation aid. To do this, it will call on social and economic agents to work so that within “one year” Spain has a general framework that can then be developed via collective agreements in each workplace, with two priority formulas: the flexible work week and a bank of hours so that workers can use them, for example, during non-school periods.
In this sense, it has proposed convening social and economic agents so that, within a year, a general framework can be available to be developed later in collective bargaining that addresses “two priority formulas” to address time management. of work: the “flexible” working week and the establishment of a bank of hours so that workers can use them, for example, during non-school periods. For Feijóo, this challenge cannot be faced “in any way” and even less “by decree.” “The economic fabric is sufficiently complex for this issue to be resolved with surgical precision in each company,” Europa Press reported. “80% of employees in Spain claim to have no decision-making power over the organization of their work schedules. This figure contrasts with that of other countries: in Sweden and Finland, the percentage is just over 30%; in Denmark and Germany, close to 50%; and in Belgium and France, slightly higher than 60%,” he explained.
The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government has also proposed facilities to promote self-employment, freeing small business owners from paying taxes during the first two years of activity. “It would, without a doubt, be a strategic commitment to entrepreneurship to reactivate the economy with more intensity in the face of current uncertainty,” stressed Feijóo, who added that this has to be “the legislature of SMEs and the self-employed.”
In his speech, Feijóo warned that structural unemployment is the “most important economic fragility” that Spain has, with an unemployment rate that doubles that of the rest of Europe and a youth unemployment rate that is the highest in Europe, he denounced. . “Despite officially registering more than 2.7 million unemployed people in Spain, the economy suffers from the lack of almost a million workers (…) Despite allocating 6,000 million to active employment policies, the placement ratio is one out of every hundred, according to AIReF”, argued Feijóo.
To try to reverse this situation, the ‘popular’ leader has proposed making public the number of inactive permanent-discontinuous employees and designing a ‘National Training Strategy’, with the autonomous communities, within the framework of a specific Conference of Presidents, and with the collaboration of training centers. He has also asked for the collaboration of companies to concentrate all job vacancies on a “mandatory national platform” with the aim of “adequately” matching supply and demand.
Regarding pensions, Feijóo has stressed that “the PP never froze pensions as the PSOE did” and that it does not support reducing them “as provided for by the current law in force.”
The PP leader has asked to leave pensions “out of the political fray” and return them to the Toledo Pact, guaranteeing “always and under any circumstances” their revaluation. “Neither freeze nor reduce. And protect its sufficiency today and in the future,” he emphasized.
The candidate has also promised that if he is inaugurated president he will promote a National Water Pact and defend the ecological transition although he rejects the “activist dictatorship.” To achieve this, the plan will invest 40,000 million euros in public works over the next six years; define a strategic water network, to advance better integrated management, as well as governance adapted to the 21st century and a plan to modernize infrastructure, dams and canals, to adapt them to current needs.
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