Sánchez now asks "to read the unemployment data with different lenses" and Calviño no longer rules out the recession

• Employment Spain loses 7,366 jobs and unemployment rises by 3,230 people in the worst July in more than twenty years

Pedro Sánchez sticks out for the employment data even despite the figures published today, which reflect the loss of more than 7,000 jobs in the worst month of July in more than two decades.

And for this, the President of the Government now asks "to

", in light of the "labour reform".

Sánchez, in the press conference that he offered after his first summer office with Felipe VI at the Almudaina Palace in Palma de Mallorca, defended that traditionally in July the hiring of permanent jobs fell and that "100,000" jobs were lost of work of these characteristics, while this year 76,000 temporary jobs have been reduced.

Which, for him, means that we are facing a "

."

That is, an increase in permanent contracts and a reduction in temporary contracts.

Sánchez has clung to that data of indefinite contracts to defend his labor policy, without going into value the data published today, which reflect the extraordinary destruction of employment in a month of July, in the middle of the tourist season.

"The Government of Spain is not going to fall into euphoria or catastrophism," he has reiterated on several occasions, while underlining the "

" that his executive is carrying out in the labor market.

Calviño and the recession

The data, however, indicate a change in trend that the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, had already warned about.

And the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, has also recognized this Tuesday that there has been a "

" in the labor market.

In an interview granted to Cadena Ser, Calviño has also highlighted the benefits of the labor reform, and has claimed that "the volatility of a specific month should not mislead us from the big figures such as the fact that there are 11 million people with indefinite contracts" .

But, the change of tone of the maximum person in charge of the economic field of the Government has been evident.

So much so that, for the first time,

, something that she has done until now.

Today he pointed out that "it is clear that everything depends on what happens with the war."

He has also pointed out that "there are many factors of uncertainty and it is difficult to anticipate what is going to happen", and that "we must prepare for the worst but hope that it does not happen and that is what we are doing".

A hardening of the tone, in short, that makes clear

.

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