The third vice president of the Government, Nadia Calviño, assumes that the set of shock measures for the coronavirus crisis "will have a budgetary impact from the point of view of the deficit and debt without any doubt." And he also believes that a great lesson is that "we must strengthen the public sector," he said, without actually increasing tax increases.

Calviño did not want to give figures in Parliament in his hard exchanges with the PP spokesman, Jaime de Olano, and Vox, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros , but he has taken for granted a strong growth in the fall of the Gross Domestic Product and the decrease in income and increase in expenses that will continue over time after the end of the alarm state.

Calviño has also assumed that the crisis will have a "significant impact" on the Spanish economy, contrary to what she declared a month ago , but she herself has stressed that she already said then that the forecasts in the which was based then. "They always seemed too optimistic to me , " he has revealed now in the Congress of Deputies.

How much will GDP sink? The vice president has declined to give figures herself, but has put on the table that analysts speak of "between -1.8% and 15.5%" this year . As for the duration, it has been in tune with the consensus of analysts that " the fall in GDP will be temporary and from the fourth quarter of this year it will move towards a significant recovery in 2021." However, the Galician minister has repeatedly emphasized that everything will depend on evolution and that nothing can be taken for granted.

One of his few emphatic statements has been that "a lesson from the crisis is that the public sector must be strengthened" without going into detail whether this will imply in the future a rise in taxes and the weight of the State in the economy. He says he does not perceive criticism in the reports of the International Monetary Fund, but rather the opposite, and has rejected Olano's reproaches. "Improvisation and inconsistency, none; agility and determination in decision-making, everything."

It has been one of the few inquiries in which Calviño, usually with a technical profile when speaking in public, shows his teeth. He has criticized the opposition's ineffectiveness in this crisis and called for "rowing together".

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