The leader of the PP,

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

, has asked businessmen for "faith" so that they do not go to Portugal in the face of the Government's tax increase.

In a speech before the auditorium of the 25th Family Business Congress held in Cáceres, Feijóo assured that he himself has known, since his time at the Xunta de Galicia, suppliers of Inditex and the automotive industry who have moved to Portugal for their lower fiscal and labor costs and has presented the march as a real risk.

"

And what I am telling you is to continue to have faith in your country

because I believe that we are a great country and that, in the same way that we have solved the problems that we had in recent years, we are going to solve the ones that we are going to have in the next ones", he declared before the audience, presenting himself without expressly saying so as the next Prime Minister.

Feijóo has stressed the "tough measures" that his PP predecessors had to take to enter the euro or avoid the rescue and has assured that his fiscal policy will avoid "the great mistake" of

Pedro Sánchez

's of "pushing investments towards other countries ".

"It is a mistake to tell Spanish investors and assets that they are not well received here and that they can go to Portugal where they are well received."

He has praised the Portuguese prime minister, the socialist

António Costa

, for his pragmatism with the tax burden and looser environmental policy.

"He is indeed a social democrat", he has come to affirm.

He has also criticized that the Government's fiscal plan does not take advantage of "the 32,000 million extra revenue expected this year" and that the part of the reduction announced by the Minister of Finance,

María Jesús Montero

, "will be noticed in June 2024".

"This making

tax cuts at the expense of the next government is not reasonable

," he stressed, reminding the audience that in 2022 no one will lower personal income tax, although he admitted that there have been cuts in VAT on electricity and gas, "proposals by the PP".

Feijóo has pointed out that the situation is a "reserved prognosis" and that "in extreme moments", what

"has to do is govern and not stay".

The head of the opposition has received a long applause from the members of the Family Business Institute chaired by the president of Sener, A

ndrés Sendagorta

.

The Basque has not directly attacked the Government, but has included this sentence before the government tax plan that focuses its relief on micro-SMEs: "

I want you to hear me say it:

beyond the fact that every company must aspire to grow, family businesses are not only small companies and not only small ones are good".

The Congress has been inaugurated by

Felipe VI

who has given a new personal accolade to family businesses.

"That effort, that leadership, that sense of responsibility allow us to understand many of the achievements that our country has achieved in the last three decades."

The president of KPMG,

Juan José Cano

, has asked "that businessmen not be demonized" and the director general of the IEF,

José Luis Blanco

, has asked Feijóo if Spain "can recover centrality".

The Galician has assured that on his part, yes, but that Sánchez does not inform him of anything, not even of State policies such as the turn in the Maghreb or the NATO Summit.

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