The PSOE alleges that the unemployment data is given by the CCAAs and asks the PP if their presidents also "make up" them

Ask the Three Wise Men that "a few doses of responsibility and a sense of State" for the 'popular'

REINOSA, Jan. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PSOE spokesperson and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has responded to the accusations leveled by the PP towards the Government of "make up" the unemployment figures and has explained that it is the autonomous communities that transfer this data to it, also the governed for the 'popular'.

"Are Mr. Feijóo and the PP spokesmen wanting to say that the presidents of the communities that the PP is governing lie and deceive with the employment data?" The socialist questioned in statements to the media regarding these criticisms of the main opposition party, which ensures that the data is "made up" by not counting the permanent-intermittent as unemployed, despite the fact that they do not have a permanent job.

Faced with this, Alegría has stressed that the data "are the same" and are collected with "the same method that has been used since 1985" in the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), for which he believes that the PP uses this argument because "he is not happy" that there are 20.3 million jobs.

"The leaders of the PP who make these comments should apply themselves a little more, and above all do not try to deceive and confuse the public," said the Socialist, who made these statements during her visit to Reinosa, where she was at the headquarters of the municipal PSOE together with the general secretary of the party in Cantabria and regional vice president, Pablo Zuloaga.

After reviewing the latest employment data known this week, the socialist stressed that the year closed with 20.3 million Social Security affiliates and 2.3 million permanent jobs thanks to a labor reform promoted by the Government and that the PP "delegitimized from the outset."

For this reason, he has opined that, "instead of trying to mask, deceive or torpedo the information that is being given", what the training should do is "join that exercise of responsibility" necessary for 2023.

In this sense, the minister has asked the Three Wise Men on January 5 to "bring the PP a few doses of responsibility and a sense of state" so that it supports beneficial measures for the Spanish - "they could start by supporting the last package of measures that the Government has approved to improve the lives of Spaniards", he added - and also to "comply with the Constitution" by renewing the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

And it is that the PSOE spokesperson believes that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, "ceased to be a viable candidate when he voluntarily decided to breach the Constitution by not allowing the Council to be renewed", exercising a blockade that, according to what he has said, he does "whenever he is in the opposition", and that he "does not understand" coming from a formation that "defines itself as a state party".

The socialist has called for "high vision" so that "normality be returned" to this body and has argued that the position of the PSOE "is none other than to bet on compliance with the Constitution."

Thus, and "in the face of a PP that continues to subscribe to catastrophism", he has assured that "the PSOE will continue to propose measures, responses and solutions to improve the lives of citizens".

In this sense, Alegría has extolled that the party is facing the regional and municipal elections next May with "a roadmap of absolutely compelling facts" -with data such as that the country is growing "above 5%" or which is the one with "the lowest inflation in the European environment" -, thanks to which he hopes to be able to "recover cities" in which he did not manage to govern in this legislature.

"In 2019 many millions of Spaniards gave the PSOE their confidence and we hope that in the next elections we will not only maintain the support we received, but that it will allow us to recover cities that were not possible in 2019," he said.

For this, and after being asked about the discrepancies between the members of the Executive, PSOE and Podemos, she has asked to "look back" and see "what has been possible to achieve with this progressive government", listing measures "as important" as the increase in pensions and the minimum wage or the implementation of the Minimum Vital Income. "That is the measuring stick of the state of good health of this Government", she has settled her.

Finally, in view of the new political project promoted by Yolanda Díaz with the 'Sumar' platform, Alegría has preferred to be "very prudent and cautious" with respect to decisions that concern other groups and has limited herself to pointing out that "unity within the different progressive parties is positive".