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  • DANIEL VIAÑA

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Monday, 2 November 2020 - 02:17

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Ramón Tamames (Madrid, 1933) is a doctor in Economics and Law from the University of Madrid, professor and State Commercial Technician.

He was a member of the Communist Party, the IU and the Social Democratic Center (CDS).

In short, it presents a curriculum as extensive as it is impossible to summarize.

And with all that baggage, he maintains that a six-month-long state of alarm is "nonsense" and that Minister Montero tries to convince people of things that "are not possible", such as raising taxes now is good.

From your extensive experience and experience, is this the worst economic moment in Spain?

In the 1940s people died in the towns of hunger and starvation.

In 1959, the IEME, the Spanish Institute of Foreign Currency, had 500 million dollars to attend to all the needs, with the frozen Levante oranges, the export mired in misery while we waited for the change from autarky to the economy of free market.

So no, I don't think it's the worst time.

And socially, in the Transition, the years 76 and 77 were very hard, with an inflation that arrived as you will remember, or at least you will have studied, at 26%.

Today we do not have inflation, we have a level of income and savings that allow resistance and also a situation with Europe that we did not have then.

What happens is that it is a very hard test due to the ignorance of the great enemy: the health worker.

Some say: 'Economy or health?

Death or stoppage of the economy? '

No, it is an integrated problem, a synergy between the two aspects is necessary.

And to declare a state of alarm until May is to stop the economy again in addition to constitutional nonsense. Is it even anti-democratic? Article 116 speaks of 15 days and successive extensions.

The message that the President of the Government has given, in addition to getting out of the way by passing responsibility to the Minister of Health, is another sign of lack of tact.

Former President González assured last week in a forum organized by Expansión that the situation is "a bloody madness."

Do you think that the previous presidents would have faced the health, social and economic crisis differently and, above all, better?

It would have been a very good time to make a great coalition.

The situation would require another type of government, that is clear, a government with a large majority and representative of what society is and not just a corner of society.

The Frankenstein Government does not make things easy for us.

And the president has many tables talking and it seems that he convinces of everything but you forget the words you just heard and nothing has been resolved.

In addition, the Administration is very deteriorated and with telework there is going to be a greater deterioration.

And in the midst of this scourge, a government with 22 ministries. There are those who say that it is the worst government at the worst possible time.

Do you share that idea? The government is deficient, with great ignorance, with ministers who are of no use like Garzón.

What has Garzón done in Consumption?

What has the University done?

I thought I was going to bring a bit of the Berkeley and the University of California model, or even the Oxford and Cambridge model.

(Serie).

Do you mean that there are ministries that are useless? That Ministry of Territorial Policy of Mrs. Darias, with a federalism on the march that Sánchez has invented and for which he has not been ambiguous ... Consumption, what is it for ?

How many people are there?

How many secretaries of state?

Universities, I have said it before, it would have to be in Education.

And then in the investigation Cotec always appears saying that we do not invest more than 1.2% while the EU proposes 2%, Japan goes for 3%, the United States for 3.5% and China no longer knows.

So what is the astronaut for?

Not at all.

The demographic challenge: Mrs. Ribera has it parked because fewer children are born here and we have a more disorganized immigration.

This is a group of ministers who I don't know how they are not ashamed to park their car in Moncloa, to sit at that table where some of them have nothing to do.

Finance, inevitably;

Economy, inevitably;

Foreign Affairs ... But there are ministries that are useless.

The Ministry of Equality, what is it for?

They are rules of civility that can be administered from the Presidency of the Government itself.

Is it to have the marriage at home, or what?

Should ministries therefore be eliminated?

It is not that I long for the times of Rajoy, but in his Government there were 12 ministries!

We now have 22 and four vice presidencies.

Before they were one or two.

There were three in the Moncloa Pacts, and at one time there was the civil, military and economic one. He has previously referred to the Ministries of Economy and Finance.

How do you assess the role of Vice President Nadia Calviño and Minister María Jesús Montero?

I have no doubt that the head of the Treasury, Mrs. Montero, is a hard worker and takes things half seriously.

But what happens is that it tries to convince us of things that are not possible.

They can't convince us that raising taxes is good when everyone is lowering them.

Nor can they convince us that public revenues next year will be 33% higher than this year.

I wouldn't give Mrs. Montero more than a 5 scrape.

On the other hand, Nadia Calviño has more savoir faire, which the French say, more experience from her time in the European Union.

He is doing what he can but it seems to me that he does not speak enough because of the projects that had to be presented in the draft on October 15 [to Brussels] they have not told us anything.

And they have drawn up a Resilience Plan, which by the way 80% of the Spanish population does not even know what Resilience is.

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