The INE further cuts growth at the beginning of the year and the Government accelerates the "reinforcement" of the body

• First quarter Economic slowdown: GDP barely grows 0.3% and family spending collapses due to inflation

The Spanish economy grew in the first quarter of the year even less than what had been pointed out: the revised data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) shows a rebound in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of just

than the 0.3% that the agency itself advanced in April.

And furthermore, it is "two points lower than the estimate for the fourth quarter", which shows the strong economic slowdown in the first quarter of the year.

A new negative figure for the Government, therefore, at a time when the Ministry of Economy is determined to remodel and "

" the INE.

And what does that reinforcement entail?

Well, according to Nadia Calviño's department, improve processes and make the body work better.

However, within the Statistics Institute itself there are voices that this change includes a far-reaching movement with a strong political component:

to be relieved by the still Secretary of State for Social Security,

, and a man of total confidence of Minister Escrivá.

This is how it is published today by

, which cites internal sources of the INE and reflects the great discomfort that exists within the body.

The Ministry of Economy, however,

and limits itself to insisting that no change of this type is currently contemplated.

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