The PP accuses Sánchez of not "stopping the recession" with his PGE and demands "transparency" in the "concessions" to ERC and PNV

"We are facing the last PGE of Sánchez", predicts Gamarra, who calls the intervention of the Minister of Finance "disappointing"

MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has accused this Wednesday the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, of "looking for a little oxygen" with his General State Budget (PGE) project instead of trying to "stop the recession" that anticipate bodies such as Airef. In addition, she has demanded "transparency" in the "concessions" and "cessions" that, according to what she has said, he is making to his partners, such as PNV and ERC.

"The Spaniards have the right to know what Pedro Sánchez is negotiating with the independentists in exchange for getting support for the Budgets," Gamarra declared before journalists after the intervention in the plenary session of Congress by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.

Gamarra has called Montero's speech to the deputies "disappointing". "What we expected from a government, if it were serious, is the withdrawal of some PGE that does not have the support of any institution or international organization," he stressed.

In this sense, he has stressed that this "disavowal" of the PGE of the Executive has become "in the first amendment of the entire Budget" and has insisted that Pedro Sánchez should have withdrawn them. "That disappointing defense of the PGE reveals that we are facing the last Budgets of Pedro Sánchez", he highlighted.

According to Gamarra, what the government is looking for with these public accounts is for Sánchez to "take a little oxygen at the cost of suffocating the Spanish, fundamentally the middle classes, who are the great forgotten ones."

In addition, he has ironized that the Government says that the Budgets are based on "social justice" when what they seek is to live "at the expense of future generations", since public accounts are "mortgages" for the president and the future of the Spanish.

The 'number two' of PP has affirmed that the PGE "do not seek to tackle the" economic recession "when it is possible to do so" nor do they seek to "stop inflation when it is possible to do so". In the same way, he has said that they do not seek to "clear up a scenario of uncertainty" when the PGE are the "fundamental instrument to give certainty" to Spanish society and the situation it must face.

"We are not before the PGE but before the general mortgages of the State" because Sánchez to continue at the head of the Government is willing to mortgage not only the present of the Spaniards but the future", he has abounded.

When asked if the Budgets could avoid the technical recession anticipated by Airef, Gamarra said yes because the public accounts set the bases of economic policy and at this time these accounts have been "discredited" by different organizations, such as the Airef. According to her, she added, more debt, more spending and more deficit together with high inflation "is not the path that Spanish society needs to face a recession scenario".

In addition, Gamarra has demanded "transparency" from the Prime Minister regarding the negotiations he is carrying out with his partners. "Sánchez does not negotiate from a personal point of view, but with the present and future of the Spaniards", he stressed.

At this point, he regretted that there are issues that are not within the PGE and are separate "concessions", as Sánchez has done in not defending the application of the Law in Catalonia, with linguistic rights, or with the dejudicialization of politics, articulating a system so that those "who have pending accounts with the Justice do not have to render them", as he added.

"The concessions are not within the Budgets but are negotiations parallel to the approval and processing of the PGE itself," he stressed, also citing the latest amendment to the PNV that will allow the Basque autonomous ball and surf team to compete abroad .

For this reason, he has insisted on asking for explanations because, in his opinion, the Spanish "have the right to know what they are negotiating" with the independentistas. "We demand transparency and that these negotiations be realized," he added.