The PP opens in Barcelona with the 'squat' a tour of thematic conventions that will be the basis of Feijóo's program

Bendodo says that, instead of a "fiscal cushion", Sánchez is preparing "an electoral springboard" of 15,000 million to go "doped" to the polls

MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has announced on Monday sectoral conventions of the party throughout Spain with which they seek to be the "speaker of society" and whose conclusions will serve to prepare the electoral program of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. For now, the first stop will take place this Friday in Barcelona and will deal with 'squatting' and the tour will continue on Monday with another act in Madrid focused on youth.

In a press conference at the PP headquarters, after the meeting of the party's steering committee chaired by Feijóo, Bendodo has indicated that with these conventions the PP wants to address the problems that concern the Spanish and provide solutions.

As he added, what the party is looking for is to become the "voice of society" at a "complicated moment", using the conclusions as the programmatic axis of next year's electoral calls. "We are going to build proposals from the bottom up," he stressed, insisting that these proposals will be "the seed" of Feijóo's government program in the future.

The general coordinator of the PP has explained that the tour will begin this Friday in Barcelona where squatting will be addressed and has underlined that they have chosen this city because of the numbers of houses occupied illegally. "Why Barcelona? Illegal squatting has become a serious problem for thousands of families, who are totally helpless and desperate," he added.

At this point, he stressed that his party intends to provide security and legal protection to homeowners and approve the necessary regulatory changes so that the eviction of squatters is as fast as possible.

The next convention will take place next Monday in Madrid and will deal with Youth. The participation of the president of the PP is planned in both, according to Bendodo, who added that Pedro Sánchez is "punishing" two groups: the youth and the middle classes, whom he refuses to lower taxes and tries to compensate with " crumbs" and small helps.

At this point, he has warned that "the broadside" of the Government with young people and the middle classes "does not match the class struggle rattle" to which Sánchez resorts. "The facts are what they are and 80% of families, which are middle class, have been excluded from Sánchez's tax cut," he said.

Bendodo has affirmed that the PSOE always does the same: "a lot of marketing and banner of health, education and social services, but deep down they are three great frauds of socialism, to which we must add the fraud of the middle classes that it fries with taxes".

Next, he stressed that a third of the salary increase for civil servants is going to be left to the State by increasing personal income tax and the increase in contributions. "Much of what the government gives civil servants and pensioners with one hand, it takes away with the other by raising taxes: that's shellfish," he asserted.

Bendodo has accused Sánchez of "saving at the expense of the ruin of the Spaniards" since he launches a "fiscal cushion of 15,000 million euros that is really a fiscal slab that suffocates the middle and working class, the self-employed and the SMEs".

"More than a fiscal cushion, it is an electoral springboard of 15,000 million with which Sánchez wants to reach the next elections doped," he stated, to proclaim that "this is summed up in that Sánchez invites and we Spaniards pay."

When asked about the statements of Vice President Nadia Calviño, not ruling out targeting fuel aid in certain sectors, Bendodo said that he hopes the Government will make a serious proposal to rule on the possible withdrawal of the 20-cent discount on fuel for the entire population.

Asked later about the situation of the PP in La Rioja, Asturias and Navarra, three autonomies where a unity congress has not yet been achieved, Bendodo pointed out that in La Rioja there is already an agreement on a "winning candidate" with the former councilor Gonzalo Capellán. "In other cases it will be a matter of weeks when we address the two issues that remain in Asturias and Navarra," he added.

When asked if a candidate will also be sought in Asturias and Navarra outside of a conclave, as has happened in La Rioja, Bendodo stressed that the Executive Committee of the Riojan PP has proposed "unanimously Mr. Capellán as a candidate."

"From then on, it will be the PP of La Rioja itself that will mark the processes internally for organic renewal", declared Bendodo, to insist that Capellán is a "winning candidate" and proposed "unanimously" by the PP of La Rioja.