Salamanca (EFE)
“Faced with those who seek to politicize families, we will not do it: what we will do will be good policies for families,” Feijóo stressed, in a pre-campaign event held in Salamanca.
For the leader of the PP, in the next elections “a model of society is at stake”, so “it is not about changing to change the government, but about guaranteeing the family models that we have in our country, helping them and not to impose our ideologies on them because they are ours”.
Criticism of the attempt to politicize families
The PP candidate has reproached President Pedro Sánchez for having, in his five years in office, tried to politicize families and defined “correct or incorrect” family models; that he has presented “a very large list of types of families and a very small list of support measures”, a trend that the PP seeks to reverse.
Help to have children
“We are going to help make Spain a good country to have children, and this is not done with more politics in their lives, but with concrete measures,” he said before going on to list them.
Feijóo has proposed four areas of specific attention with concrete support measures for families, “because having a son or daughter cannot be a luxury”: birth, conciliation, early childhood education and social networks,
Thus, it has proposed to give employers a discount for hiring working mothers, increase the benefit for dependent children from the fifth month of pregnancy, increase the family minimum in personal income tax for the second and subsequent children, agree to the creation of a “bank of hours” with companies to ensure reconciliation and extend maternity and paternity leave for single-parent families, among others.
In terms of Education, Feijóo has assured that it is proposed to extend the hours of educational facilities to use them on holidays and long weekends, recover special education centers and guarantee children’s education from 0 to 3 years co-financed by the Government and the autonomies.
In addition, it has indicated that it is time to return control of their children’s education to parents and the interest in not leaving children unprotected in the face of the Internet, for which it is proposed to agree with companies on the possibility of restricting access to certain content.
Feijóo thanked the Association of Mothers of Adolescents and Girls with Accelerated Dysphoria (Amanda) for their participation in the event, and the Autism Spain association, since “the exercise of humility of the politician who hopes to serve the citizens begins by listening to them” .
Mañueco defends the management of his Government: “We continue to grow in social rights”
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León and the PP in this autonomous community, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has defended in this act the management of his Government (PP-Vox) at the service of the people: “We continue to grow in social rights”, has stated.
“For more than a year many things have been heard about our government but we continue to grow in social rights, we have strengthened the fight against sexist violence and also the protection of families with more and better public, social, health, education and better job,” he argued.
During his speech at the opening, Fernández Mañueco referred to the “utility and effectiveness” that in his opinion characterize his management against those who “choose the sad path of raising barriers” and opt for exclusion, because “when there is political will and management capacity, the objectives that we set ourselves are achieved”, he stressed.
“There are four weeks left to vote and Spain needs and wants a new government and from Castilla y León we are going to contribute strongly to make it happen, to achieve a resounding majority”, he concluded before holding a round table in which he participated the vice secretary of the PP of Social Policies and Demographic Challenge, Carmen Fúnez.