Feijóo returns to the economy, to management. With these credentials he assumed the presidency of the PP a year and a month ago. He exploited his reputation as a good manager, in the Insalud, in the Post Office, in the Xunta de Galicia, until Pedro Sánchez tried to destroy that characteristic, in an already famous debate in the Senate in which the President of the Government coined the phrase, addressed to the new president of the PP speaking of "incompetence or bad faith".
The law of yes is yes, the presence of members of the extinct ETA on the Bildu lists and the pacts between the Government and the Abertzale coalition, distracted the president of the PP from that field in which he feels comfortable, because it is the one that has He marked his political career in Galicia, and now he is trying to resume it.
What better place than the South Summit 2023 that is being held these days in Madrid, a leading event in southern Europe that connects the most innovative entrepreneurs with the most important global investors and companies that seek to improve their competitiveness through innovation. Alberto Núñez Feijóo appeared before them to make himself known: "I am an aspirant to change my country," he told them, and with a coded speech more of the president of the Government than of the leader of the opposition, he explained what he offers.
"I believe in management," said the president of the PP. "I like rigor, cooperation, union, commitment." And what he wants: "That the economy grows, but that growth is healthy and not based only on public spending, that it be solid growth" and that the increase in employment does not occur only due to growth in public employment .
Alberto Núñez Feijóo told the international innovators that the policy he proposes is based "on realism and reforms", among them the reform of education, "with little ideology and a lot of quality", the reform of controlling public accounts and not continue with an "exorbitant public debt" that will make Spain have to pay 44,000 million euros in interest next year, "more than what we are going to invest."
The president of the PP offers entrepreneurs "a better orientation of public spending", tax incentives "for those who take real risks", tax systems oriented towards employment and investment attraction. Feijóo promises to streamline bureaucracy, to give more dynamism to companies, that already in education the "values of innovating, creating, risking and contributing to society" are violated.
The PP leader's program will aim, he said, to put Spain back among the 10 world economies; work so that by 2030 technical unemployment is zero; for Spain "to be a leader in energy, technology and good places to live". But above all, Feijóo considers that his government, if he wins the elections on July 23, what he has to do is "generate certainty, prove legal certainty, and dedicate ourselves to growing, creating and believing."
To do all this, Alberto Núñez Feijóo considers that the most important thing is to make a good diagnosis of the economic situation, and in his opinion the Sánchez government does not do so because "unjustified triumphalism is a bad diagnosis." In his opinion "it is not true that the Spanish economy is going like a motorcycle", because "the clinical history is not good". He considers that there is a "stagnation", which is why the GDP of before the pandemic has not recovered, when the other European countries have, and when out of every four European unemployed, one is Spanish, and Spain is the second country in female unemployment and youth unemployment. Without forgetting, he stressed, that the Spanish have lost purchasing power, that the Government is not capable of balancing the accounts and has a deficit of 4.8%, while that of Portugal, for example, is 0.4. Thus, the main objective continues to be "for the economy to grow", but for it to be "healthy" growth. And that's what he's going to do.
