• National Accounts The new president of the INE undertakes her second upward revision of the GDP: it rose 1.5% in the second quarter

Elvira Rodríguez

, the financial manager of the PP during the presidency of Pablo Casado, former Secretary of State for Budgets and also former president of the CNMV, has accused the Government of manipulating the growth figures published today by the National Institute of Statistics and that show a sensitive upward revision of four tenths.

"

The Ministry of Economy moves the balls of GDP

; the goblets are the quarters and some go up but others go down," he said on his profile on the social network Twitter.

"But it cannot hide the truth: that we are the only ones who have not reached the pre-pandemic situation and that every time a forecast is revised it goes down," he added.

The criticism of the PP is directly related to the fact that the Government pressured, even assaulted, the presidency of the INE and caused the resignation of the previous head,

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Poo

.

The economic ministers, headed by

Nadia Calviño

and

José Luis Escrivá

, expressed their doubts on numerous occasions regarding the Statistics data because they did not reflect, in their opinion, the real situation of the economy.

All this led to the appointment of

Elena Manzanera

as the new president of INE, and a prior warning from Europe in the face of the pressure that the Government is exerting on a key body.

But at the same time, the criticism of the current PP deputy

is not based on specific data

, figures or assessments about what is incorrect in the INE review or why she considers that the Government has manipulated it.

The Government, for its part, has expressed its satisfaction with the upward revision of the INE.

This has been done by the First Vice President and also by the Prime Minister himself.

"

This encourages us

because we believe that, protecting the social majority and making investments to be able to modernize our economy and make us more competitive, is the way to overcome a situation as complicated as that derived from Putin in Ukraine", Pedro Sánchez stated in his speech at the tenth anniversary of

eldiario.es

in Valencia.

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