Bendodo accuses Sánchez of crossing "all the red lines" and ending 2023 with gifts of electricity and gas tax increases

RONDA (MÁLAGA), 30 Dec. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The deputy secretary of Autonomous and Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has assured that this 2023 "has been one of the worst years in memory in terms of democratic quality and social progress" in Spain and has accused the president of the Government of having "crossed all the red lines", while criticizing Pedro Sánchez's "two gifts to Spanish families to end the year, raising taxes on electricity and gas".

In statements to the media in Ronda (Málaga), together with the mayor, Mari Paz Fernández, Bendodo has criticized "what we call the electrical shock" and that it makes "the gas bill" at Christmas "more expensive than ever." history, as proven by the rise in the CPI to 3%". "This is the progressivism of the PSOE," he lamented.

Thus, he has considered it "urgent to put an end to this slab of taxes with which Sánchez is suffocating families so that he can pay his investiture in cash and maintain a pharaonic government with 23 ministers," he said, "and more than 1,400 advisors and high ranks". He has assured that the PP "will continue to demand the reduction of VAT on meat, fish and preserved foods and the reduction of personal income tax via deflation."

"Sánchez continues to fatten that pharaonic court of minister, senior officials, advisors, pulls the checkbook, buys the independence movement, doubles the VAT on electricity and four times that of gas and continues at full speed with the relocations and placements of his friends "he lamented.

But, also, for Bendodo, this year Sánchez "has broken the main thing that our country had, which was equality between Spaniards, between territories, and he has done so by unilaterally forgiving 15,000 million euros to an autonomous community, without consulting it, not even talk about it with the rest."

He has pointed out that it has been the year of amnesty, "which has also broken the equality of citizens before the law"; a law "that did not fit in the Constitution and that now they say that it does, and that they do so by seven votes that have allowed the investiture of Pedro Sánchez."

"It has been the year in which Sánchez has dared to buy the independentists and the heirs of ETA. Sánchez spoke in this year 23 that was the year of politics, of high politics and has been the year of mercantilism. Some "They bought and others sold. Junts and Bildu sold their votes in congress and Sánchez bought them at whatever price was necessary," he said.

In this regard, he stressed that "the independence movement was bought with the amnesty and Bildu, among other things, with the Mayor's Office of Pamplona", a point on which he insisted that this past Thursday "an infamy was consummated that was something we had never seen before." thought that could happen, which was for the PSOE to give the Mayor of Pamplona to Bildu", which, he recalled, "in the last municipal elections there were 40 ETA members on the lists"; and he did it "because he needed his six votes."

"There have been almost a thousand, including politicians from the PP and the PSOE, national police and civil guards, who have died and been murdered by the terrorist group ETA and there has been no repentance. And they give the Mayor's Office to the party that committed those attacks "he reiterated.

Bendodo has pointed out that 2023 is also the year in which "the PSOE and Sánchez have given free rein to tributes to ETA members" and in which "the PP had to stop, with its votes in Congress, the 'Solo law'. yes it is yes' disastrous", in addition to the year of "the parties, the commissions, the prostitutes in charge of everyone's money, of the Tito Berni plot."

For the 'popular' leader, "it is worrying that Sánchez has totally replaced management with ideology" and he recalled that the Court of Auditors has given "another slap on the wrist" to the Government "in the face of the disastrous management of European funds by the absolute opacity, which distributes employment instead of creating it and which is going into debt at a rate of eight million euros an hour, almost 200 million a day.

In this regard, he has indicated that this Government "has collected an extra 10,000 million euros through personal income tax, which has fundamentally been contributed by the middle classes"; money that "has not been reinvested," said Bendodo, who has pointed out that the PP has demanded "lowering personal income tax via deflation, just as President Juanma Moreno is doing in Andalusia and also in the autonomous communities governed by the PP."

For Bendodo, Sánchez had "a golden opportunity" to reduce the structure of the Government and has once again assured that "although I have appointed the Andalusian María Jesús Montero as first vice president, the message is prepare yourself that I am going to raise taxes on all of you again." time" and that "the reality is that the first vice president is not Andalusian, but lives in Brussels, his name is Puigdemont and evidently he is the one who has the key to the government."

He has criticized that "the reward for the former Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, for ruining the image of Renfe is to place her in the Presidency of Paradores with a salary of 200,000 euros a year" and also that Sánchez's former chief of staff in the PSOE "has left a hole of 1,000 million euros in the Post Office."

"The PP is going to dedicate the year 2024 fundamentally to defending unity in our country, to defending democracy, to trying to tear down the wall that Sánchez wants to build," he concluded.