The PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has believed that progressive women theoretically dissatisfied with some decisions of the coalition government have found a gap through which to attack the Executive and weaken the electoral power in that social sector of the PSOE and United We Can. The problems in the application of the law of only yes is yes, and the differences in the Council of Ministers on how to fix it, have given ammunition to the opposition leader in the fourth face to face that he celebrates against Pedro Sánchez in the Senate, whom he has pointed out for not “thinking about women”, but rather in sustaining in Moncloa. The socialist leader has replied to Feijóo that he intends to reform the Criminal Code and has counterattacked with a battery of policies aimed at women approved this legislature, with the rise of the SMI to 1,080 at the head.
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Sánchez has appeared in the Senate to report on the economic measures approved by the Government to combat the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. The head of the Executive has announced in his initial speech the rise in the minimum interprofessional salary to 1,080 euros, which leaves the indicator very close to the objective of 60% of the average salary recommended by the EU. The SMI was at 735 euros in 2018, when Mariano Rajoy governed. 46% less than it will be in 2023.
It is not the only measure aimed at women, in the words of Sánchez, who has recognized the “undesired effects” of the reform of the Penal Code “in some cases”. The Prime Minister had dodged the controversy surrounding the rule during his first speaking time, although after a direct appeal from the opposition leader he responded that it is a “technical question” that, in his opinion, “does not reflect the will of the Government nor of the eight parliamentary groups that supported it in the Cortes”. For this reason, he added, they are going to “correct themselves”. “If there is one thing that unites the entire parliament and deputies and senators, it is that nobody expects to alleviate the punishment of the aggressors. The unwanted effects are corrected, but there are plenty of insults ”, he has settled.
Sánchez has promised to try to stop the reductions in sentences for sexual offenders. “We are going to correct them”, she insisted before claiming the feminist policies implemented by her Executive and reproaching the PP pacts with VOX on account of controversies such as the abortion law in Castilla y León. “Their criticisms would be more credible if they did not have that background,” she replied to Feijóo.
But, in addition, Sánchez has counterattacked in defense of his feminist policies: “Who if not women benefit from the SMI but women workers? Who benefits from the revaluation of pensions? Of the equalization of paternity and maternity leave? And with the equal pay law? Or the recovery of Social Security contributions that you cut? And with unemployment protection for domestic workers? Or the voluntary termination of pregnancy, which you took to the Constitutional Court?
“His speech oozes populism,” Feijóo replied, “thank goodness Spain no longer believes him,” he added. The leader of the PP has indicated the existence of a “mythology sanchista” which means going from saying that he is going to “fight against corruption” to being “the only president who makes it cheaper”. Or be a “feminist government” that “has perpetrated the greatest setback in defense of women in Spain.” Or that “he came to combat radicalism and independence, but the entire independence bloc is delighted with his Presidency.” “It values the economic management of the Government”, he continued, “but we are the last country to recover pre-pandemic GDP, leaders in unemployment, a record in public debt and 13 million people at risk of poverty”.
Feijóo has also attacked Sánchez for his supposed lack of international presence. The leader of the PP has ironized that “the president is stopped in Davos, in the EU and in the world to ask him about the Spanish miracle.” “Sánchez goes to the European Councils and they ask him to admire his recipes to ask how the Spanish economy has not recovered the pre-pandemic GDP”, he ironized, to settle: “The EU is the only class in which all the students copy the last ”.
Regarding the law of only yes is yes, Feijóo has admitted that “it is human to be wrong”, but that “the law is the result of his insensitivity and his irrelevance as president”. The Galician leader added: “Last night the first vice president [por Carmen Calvo] She confessed that from the first moment she knew what was going to happen, that she and the minister had warned of the consequences. And despite all this, they let you do things for you to maintain the coalition. What kind of feminism justifies lowering the sentences of hundreds of knowingly aggressors? How much longer will it take to change the law? Are you going to continue allowing your government to insult judges, parties and the media? When are you going to apologize?”
“Neither moderate, nor reformer”
In his first intervention, Sánchez has focused on drawing an economic context far removed from the apocalypse announced by the right and on contrasting management models with the PP governments. With messages included to the Spanish business elite. “Real wages have been falling for more than a decade, with prices rising 17%, and wages 10.6%. Purchasing power has been reduced and part of the responsibility lies with politics, when we have lacked the courage and courage to revalue pensions at the CPI. And another part, it must be said, is owned by the private sector, specifically some large companies that increase their profits year after year and pay millionaire bonuses to their executives but do not raise their employees’ salaries by a penny”, criticized the president .
Already in hand-to-hand with Feijóo, Sánchez has taken pains to try to blur the opposition leader as a reformist and moderate politician, once again stirring up the specter of the influence of the ultra-right in the popular ranks. “We would all be better off without Vox, maybe even the PP would be better off without Vox. In principle, it may cost them the government of some town halls or Autonomous Communities, but I believe that in the end that would make them better as a party and their image would improve. And they could even behave like a European democratic party and they could stop going to those demonstrations to shout those outlandish slogans that you don’t even believe, ”he snapped at his opponent.
Sánchez has established a parallelism between the figure of the Galician politician and his predecessor, Pablo Casado, establishing a common thread in the way of doing politics. “We received the change with a certain expectation that you would contribute a less harsh, less harsh, less tense political debate. But in terms of insults he has dispatched himself at ease: he has called me a liar, frivolous, mediocre, weak, sectarian, arrogant, egotistical. Luckily he did not come to insult Mr. Feijóo ”, lamented the president.
In his final speech, the President of the Government has lashed out particularly harshly against the leader of the PP to disqualify his career in national politics. “An opposition is said but it is also done, and its legacy almost twelve months later has been to validate the first coalition government pact in a territory with VOX, having blocked the renewal agreement of the CGPJ and signing two defectors for giving them an award for his betrayal”, he said in reference to the UPN deputies, Sergio Sayas and Carlos García Adanero. “With his departure from the presidency of the Xunta, the Galicians have won but all the Spaniards have lost,” he concluded.