Feijóo promises to strengthen the welfare state for “the Spaniards of today and tomorrow”

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has committed this Saturday, if he can govern after the November 29 elections, to work to leave the welfare state and public services better than they are "for the Spaniards of today and for the Spaniards of tomorrow" in the midst of the debate on pensions that he himself tried to close on Thursday and that on access to housing.

The leader of the PP, in his speech at the XII State Congress of Progressive Unity of La ONCE, has warned that a strong welfare state “is not the one that promises the most, but the one that fulfills what it promises”, explicitly alluding to the promises of the Sánchez Government in terms of housing. “Politics cannot consist of generating expectations that are never answered later,” he reproached the Executive.

And although he has not mentioned pensions, the president of the PP has warned that the welfare state must be guaranteed "to future generations" which is why he has demanded that "we do not live off of our children."

And for him, in recent years, which he has described as “chaotic”, the welfare state and public services have not been managed to improve them. In his opinion, the population growth of almost four million people since 2018 “required planning and an adaptation of human and material resources”, something that, according to him, has not been done and to which he has committed. An idea that has been summed up as “arriving, working and solving.”

To this end, Feijóo has proposed an “ambitious and demanding” agenda capable of addressing the major pending transformations, making people's lives easier and helping them make ends meet. He recalled that the welfare state is one of the great achievements of Spanish democracy and a “collective conquest” that allows millions of people to have more opportunities, protection and security.

Feijóo, who has praised the work of ONCE - "if it did not exist it would have to be invented" - has also announced that if he governs he intends to correct the fact that blind people cannot vote without depending on third parties, because "then their political participation is not full." "I want blind people to be able to fully exercise their right to vote. In an accessible, secret way and in all electoral processes," he stated.

Before the ONCE event, the leader of the popular party took the opportunity to reproach the PSOE for its “hypocrisy” due to the resignation of its already former spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, due to her partner's real estate businesses, and he mocked the “coalition of the desperate”, in reference to the agreement reached yesterday by the PSOE and the Frente Amplio to present joint lists in the Senate.

The president of the Popular Party has considered that Mínguez “has neither left nor been expelled” from the PSOE: “What has happened is that the PSOE has had its maximum hypocrisy explode in its hands.” "Evidently, people are already beginning to realize that the PSOE and hypocrisy are synonymous," said Feijóo, who has pulled back to evaluate the replacement of Mínguez with Rebeca Torró: "Mr. Sánchez always makes good signings. First Mr. Ábalos, then Mr. Cerdán, Mr. Salazar, Ms. Montse Mínguez and now Ms. Torró."

But the irony has been saved for the left's agreement for the Senate. “I show solidarity with Mr. Sánchez for having to take Mrs. Colau to try to save the furniture.” “The coalition of desperate people that the PSOE has built by diluting its acronym with 20 political formations proves that the fact that the PSOE is going to win the elections is yet another hypocrisy,” added Feijóo, who recalled that the formations to the left of the PSOE have not been able to form a single coalition for Congress and, therefore, “we have at this moment the political alternative in Spain that is made up of Mr. Sánchez, Mrs. Colau and Mrs. Irene Montero.”