The PP attacks the general strike for "electoral", "preventive" and for "working" for Sánchez's campaign

The PP has strongly attacked the general strike for this Wednesday in Spain, calling its call "electoral", "preventive" against an upcoming right-wing government and for "working" in favor of Pedro Sánchez's campaign.

This has been stated by the general secretary of the Popular Party, Miguel Tellado, who has disparaged the real causes of the call, which are officially to denounce the abuse of housing prices and the lack of revaluation of salaries, and who has expressly linked its celebration as a weapon in favor of the left in the general elections on November 29.

"It is evident that we are not facing a general strike, but rather an electoral strike," said Tellado in an interview on Telecinco, where he stressed that this type of protest "makes very little sense" at the moment and that the organizers themselves have "difficulties" in expressing themselves "against who it was, what they were demanding and what they wanted."

For this reason, the number two of the PP denounces that in reality we are facing "a preventive strike against the next Government of Spain" and before "the payment of the CCOO and UGT unions to their respective parties in a campaign in which it seems that the left is very much in need of support", in an implicit allusion to the PSOE and the Frente Amplio.

For Tellado, the purpose behind the strike is to "influence the electoral campaign" and he has suspected that the unions, which have been "silent for eight years", are now "working in favor of Pedro Sánchez" and "not for the rights of workers."

Thus, he has regretted that this type of calls on the threshold of a general election (posting of posters is tomorrow night) "does nothing to benefit" the "crisis of representativeness" that in his opinion the unions are going through.

Faced with Ayuso's calls against CCOO and UGT, Tellado has said that unions are "indispensable in a society" and has avoided going down the path of the president of the Community of Madrid, who asked to withdraw or cut the public financing they receive. Instead, the PP leader preferred to emphasize that there are other unions such as CSIF or USO that did not want to participate in the strike, which is why he demanded "not to put everyone in the same bag, because it would be an unfair decision."

Regarding the housing problem, Tellado has defended that the PP's proposal is to "build a lot of housing." He has pointed out that the "insecurity" caused by the Sánchez Government has caused a good part of the supply to have "disappeared" and he has trusted that with his recipes many new houses for rent will appear in weeks because the problem is that there is "fear" that they will be occupied or that the rent will not be paid.