In view of the speech he gave yesterday at the Cercle d’Economia, it would seem that Salvador Illa simply wanted to paint a bright picture of current economic growth and a brilliant future but without addressing the problems. New budgets and future model of regional financing (if political stability and the PP allow it and if Junts restrains itself), with the consequent shower of millions, largely investments in infrastructure. These were the main points of an unusually short intervention, which was appreciated by the attending audience and focused on selling his successes. Otherwise, cold and vague. His own team was unable to explain in the corridors the 3.3 billion plan he announced.
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Hardly a mention, forced by the president of the Cercle, Teresa Garcia-Milà, to the conflict with teachers and professors. Nothing about the doctors. Nor about Rodalies. Both serious symptoms of the fracturing of the welfare state. A degradation of significant areas of essential services, one of the drivers of the rampant social discontent that surveys are beginning to record steadily. Like the waiting lists.
Illa skims over the clash with teachers and doctors… and avoids the general political situation
The temporal coincidence of the protest actions is more than casual. It is the manifestation of a climate and the response against it. It is a matter that directly challenges his political proposal and his shared prosperity program, which he has turned into a government slogan and on which his next electoral result will depend. And few business forums will he find like the Cercle, due to its cross-sectional nature, to discuss and openly expose them.
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In the housing sector, where the differences with businessmen and the Cercle are clearly defined, he elegantly distanced himself from the link with immigration and regularizations proposed by Garcia-Milà. She also did not talk about taxes, which the president must have appreciated.
But if the mentioned gaps are striking, even more so was the evasion of any reference to the critical Spanish political situation. While the right and far-right pressure in favor of early elections and seek various ways to present a viable parliamentary motion of no confidence to overthrow Pedro Sánchez’s government, also harassed by more or less transparent judicial causes, depending on the cases, Illa preferred not to say a word. Today the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will attend the sessions. Perhaps Illa wanted to leave all the political protagonism to Sánchez, who closes tomorrow.
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