Defend bipartisanship and drain the bulge on the relay … – Faro de Vigo

Defend bipartisanship and drain the bulge on the relay … – Faro de Vigo

Mariano Rajoy

defended yesterday its balance bipartisanship as the “model” that brings “stability and certainty” to a country, why he pledged to “make an effort” to restore the confidence of the voters PP lost in the European elections. Rajoy acknowledged that the results of the elections of May 25 were “other than the usual” throughout Europe, although in Spain, recalled, PP and PSOE remained first and second political force.

President considered that “like the Spanish model”, in which two major parties alternate in power, is “the model that exists in countries with higher levels of well-being” among those cited United States, United Kingdom, Germany or France. “That’s what gives them stability and certainty,” he proclaimed.

While respecting said “deeply” entirely new policy options chosen by the Spaniards in the European elections, in which they stormed the political landscape formations as we, Rajoy avoided making “value judgments”

When asked about whether to submit to the next general election and what you think of the generational change that is occurring in Spanish politics – with the arrival of new leaders comoPedro Sanchez, 42, and Pablo Iglesias, 34 – and its institutions, a new King who is 46 years old, Rajoy was inclined not respond and merely remind reporters that he was elected prime minister because he “voted the Spaniards.”

For Rajoy, Spain boasts a recovery “firm”, “healthy”, “diversified” which “treads solid ground” and said, “It has come to stay.” Proof of this, he said, is that the expected upward revision of growth is accompanied by a reduction in unemployment forecasts. Also, Rajoy said he was confident that the data on registered unemployment and Social Security membership last July, which will be broadcast next week, showing the “same right direction” in recent months.

Rajoy defended public support to financial institutions, which have not recovered, and launched into a tight defense of tax reform passed yesterday by the Government, while postponing the next legislative amendment of the current financing system. The president also hoped that the economic situation is not affected by the developments in Catalonia.

The resounding optimism prompted Rajoy approaches thereupon to give his own wheel press, the PSOE leader, Pedro Sánchez, hiciese a call for restraint to the president: “I would ask you not to call Rajoy recovery impoverish the middle class,” Sanchez, who recalled 800,000 more unemployed said that were generated since the PP came to power, the 739,000 households with no income, or an additional EUR 25,000 million paid in taxes the middle class since the PP won the general election in 2011.

As for Sanchez who met on Monday, Rajoy claimed not to have “no doubt” that will maintain agreements with the PSOE on the state model, the European Union, the Defense and Foreign Affairs, because, he said, “are policies that do not be changed by mere changes of Government. “

Since in Monday’s meeting, Sanchez defended a reform of the Constitution, Rajoy said in the press conference yesterday that it adamantly opposes to it, but nobody has raised any specific proposal, so he appealed not to “trivialize” this issue.

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the PSOE to agree the proposal for direct election of mayors, Rajoy held that this case “is not closed” and explained that the proposal is not “crazy”.

The Chief Executive assured that it will drain the legislature and is not intended to make any change in government and stressed normal, “almost unknown” in Spain, with which it has carried out the relief in front of the Head of State.

Asked about the case Barcenas and other corruption scandals affecting PP, Rajoy insisted his players no longer active in the popular ranks, noting that justice is working and treating everyone equally, while regarding ETA insisted that you have to do is dissolve. As for the reform of the abortion law, chose not to enter the question and simply said that the Government is seeking maximum consensus.

About the clemency request of the two policemen convicted by the supreme revelation of secrets in the “Pheasant case” which thwarted an operation against ETA extortion network in 2006, said that “as always “The Government will consider that.