Madrid (EFE).- Economic representatives of the four main formations (PSOE, PP, Vox and Sumar) discussed inflation, housing, employment and fiscal policy in the electoral debate organized by the EFE Agency on the occasion of the elections on the 23rd of July (23J), within the cycle called “EFE Forum 23J”.
The Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Executive of the PSOE, Patricia Blanquer; the Secretary of Economy in the Executive of the PP, Luis Marín; Vox’s economic spokesperson in Congress, Inés Cañizares; and the Secretary of State for Social Rights and economic spokesperson for Sumar, Nacho Álvarez.
Held at the headquarters of the Ortega-Marañón Foundation (Madrid), the debate left, among others, the following sentences:
Patricia Blanquer (PSOE)
“The problem is access to housing and what we want is to develop this housing law that, precisely, what it does is put a stop to speculation.”
“The ‘squatting’ at the moment is not the big problem.”
“He says there is hidden employment. Discontinuous landlines have been with us for many years. If they are active, they are listed as employed and if not, they are listed as unemployed. I don’t understand the discussion.”
“When the fiscal rules are approved, we will go with our homework done.”
Luis Marin (PP)
“We will deflate personal income tax rates at a national level below 40,000 euros so that it has an immediate effect on taxpayers (…) and we will reduce VAT on meat, fish and preserves.”
“In this country we have a basic problem, there are people without jobs and there are also jobs without people.”
“What has happened with the rent cap is very easy, it has caused the rent to rise by 10% in this country.”
“Isn’t it true that lowering taxes endangers public services (?) You have to spend better.”
Inés Cañizares (VOX)
“The reality is that with the salaries that Spaniards earn today, you can’t do the shopping like you did three years ago. Now we are much worse off than when Sánchez arrived at La Moncloa”.
“‘Squatting’ in Spain, which is protected by the current government, is a real problem: 17,000 ‘squatting’ in 2021. We will have zero tolerance for ‘squatting’.”
“It is not true that it has created more employment, it has cut it into pieces.”
“The Government taxes work as if it were something pernicious. When you want people to quit smoking, you tax tobacco. If you want me to stop drinking, you tax alcohol. If you want me to stop working, you tax work.”
Nacho Álvarez (Add)
“We need mortgage portability to guarantee, as has been done in other sectors of our economy, that families are not trapped in a bank pen.”
“The office against the ‘squat’ that Vox has forced the PP to believe in the government of Castilla y León has not yet received any calls.”
“The labor reform has made it possible to put an end to a historical anomaly, the temporary rate, transforming 1.5 million temporary into indefinite ones.”
“When we talk about taxation, the key question is not if we go up or down, but to whom and for what.”