There are 11 pages. Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team took a few days, but they have prepared an 11-page dossier with Pedro Sánchez's "lies" in the debate held last Monday, the face-to-face between the two main candidates for the presidency of the Government. With this document, the president of the PP tries to stop the campaign that the Socialists have been running since Monday that Feijóo did nothing more than tell lies, and that with them he is muddying the electoral campaign.
The report, to which La Vanguardia has had access, includes 38 "false data", as the PP calls it, and that Feijóo will reel off to "dismantle the PSOE campaign." For now, the president of the PP clings to the statements, on Thursday, by the general director of the DGT, Pere Navarro, to confirm that he was telling the truth when he showed him the document sent to the European Union with the commitment to implement tolls in the highways, to which the European Union has set a date, said the popular leader this Friday at a rally in Oviedo, 1924.
The false data is grouped by the PP, in that report, by sections: Economy, Employment and Social Security, Institutional, Justice, Health, Social Policies, Energy, Housing, Tolls and Tourism. And in each "False data" that Sánchez gave in the debate, the PP includes the "correct data", and the source of the data that he qualifies as false: either EPA, National Accounting Reports, Eurostar.
The dossier begins with the "false data" that "we have created 2 million jobs", "we are creating quality employment". And he emphasizes that the correct data is: "Affiliation to Social Security, 1,863,000 more jobs. EPA data 1,109,000 jobs." The second that he tries to dismantle is that "so far this year we are multiplying GDP by 4". false, determines the PP, because it says, "we would like to multiply our GDP by 4 and go from 1.3 trillion to 5.2 trillion" and adds that the reality of GDP "is that Spain is at the tail of the economic growth of the EU, being the penultimate country of the 27 to recover the GDP levels prior to the pandemic".
It also includes Sánchez's statement that in February 2022 we had inflation of 2%" and counters it with the "correct data" that in February 2022 inflation was "7.6%, and even two months before, in December 2021 it was already 6.5%".
This is how he reels off the 28 "false data" that Sánchez said, such as that the Government is reducing the debt, when the correct thing, indicates the report, is that "the public debt continues to increase, although in relative terms of GDP it has been reduced by the denominator effect".
Regarding taxes, he answers Sánchez's information that "we have lowered taxes for the middle and working class", when the truth is that "some taxes such as VAT on food or electricity have been lowered, but many have gone up more, more than 40, have not adjusted any for inflation, and we are the European country that increased the tax burden the most: 10 times more than the European average". He adds that it is estimated that 80% of the extra collection falls directly or indirectly on families.
Regarding employment and the statement "We have created more employment than ever", the report maintains what Feijóo said, that Rajoy had created more employment, and with data from the EPA it underlines that since Rajoy was elected president until he ceased to be in 2018 it created 1,191,100 jobs, while Sánchez, from the second quarter of 2018 to the first of 2023 created 1,108,700 jobs.
It also underlines as false Sánchez's statement that "the PP has voted against revaluing pensions according to the CPI". The PP voted in favour, the report maintains, because "in 2020 we voted in favor of the Toleo Pact that calls for (recommendation 2) the" annual revaluation of pensions based on the real CPI" as a guarantee to preserve the purchasing power of pensions ". In addition, he adds, in September 2022 "we also voted in the Senate to revalue pensions according to the CPI". He points out that what the PP did not support was "a pension reform that is a patch, which harms the sustainability and contributory nature of the system. Not voting for the reform is not voting against the revaluation of pensions."
In the opposite sense, he once again points out as false Sánchez's statement that "Zapatero did not freeze pensions" and underlines, as correct data that "the greatest disloyalty to the Toledo pact was carried out by a socialist government when in 2010 - with Zapatero, they froze the pensions with the vote in favor of Mr. Sánchez" and it meant "the greatest loss of purchasing power in our recent history (2,060 million euros) and this was done strikingly at a time when the Reserve Fund had a total of 66,000 million euros".
In the institutional section, it begins with the affirmation of the President of the Government that "it is not true that the Law of Democratic Memory includes that the Government of Felipe González did not respect human rights", when, he emphasizes, Additional Provision 16 establishes that "the Government, within a year, will designate a technical commission to prepare a study on the cases of violation of human rights to people for their fight for the consolidation of democracy, fundamental rights and democratic values, between the entry into force of the Constitution of 1978 and December 31, 198, which indicates possible ways of recognition and reparation for them".
He also defends himself against statements by Sánchez that are not based on data, such as "agreeing with a macho party like Vox has consequences, such as hearing him say that domestic violence exists using the same language as Abascal's party." The PP classifies it as false because "that Abascal denies sexist violence does not mean that Feijóo does it. It was Sánchez who committed falsehood by denying intra-family or domestic violence." And it includes the discussion they had about whether Vox had supported the pact against gender violence, or Podemos had not supported it. The PP recalls that the only agreement that has been approved in Parliament is that of 2017, when the PP governed. Vox was extra-parliamentary and Podemos abstained. He adds that in 2021, the Government proposed an agreement to renew it that Vox rejected, but that the subcommittee in charge of renewing it did not finish its work due to the call for elections.
Feijóo's defense of a PSOE campaign, with which he intends to deactivate one of the "virtues" that the Pp leader claims characterizes him, in contrast to what Pedro Sánchez has been and his way of governing these years.
