The Spanish will go to the polls this Sunday under one of the most pessimistic economic situations of recent years. The sudden braking that the labor market is experiencing is very worrying: the latest unemployment figures are disastrous. According to data published yesterday by Labor, in October 97,948 people have begun to swell the unemployment lists. There was no such aggravation since 2012, one of the worst moments of the crisis. Then, with more than four million unemployed, the labor reform of the PP was approved that served to boost the economy. However, the inaction of the Government of Sanchez has left the country devoid of a lifeguard to cling to bypass the coming cycle change . But it's not just about unemployment. Growth is contracting steadily, industrial production is in very low hours and even tourism has lost its bellows. And the horizon, with the more than foreseeable impact on exports of Brexit and Trump's tariff war, does not invite optimism. Especially if the 10-N does not leave a combination that allows to end the interim of the Executive and thus begin to act thinking about the future of the country and not the electoral calculations. And yet, given this alarming drift, there is no political reaction to the altitude. We saw it on Monday in the debate among the candidates: while the acting president hid the raw data, some opposition candidates incurred in the populist registry to offer grandiloquent measures without taking into account their effect on national accounts. A contempt for voter intelligence.

The one who cheated the longest was Sanchez, who had already worried that the debate would take place the day before the publication of the unemployment data so that it would not affect him negatively and thus try to hide the job impairment. Along the same lines, on Monday he ignored or responded evasively to the questions about economics that Casado and Rivera asked him. But if something deserves a major criticism of the candidates is the fact of tiptoe over one of the biggest challenges facing our economy: pensions. All promised to increase them, some more demagogically than others, but none addressed the issue as what it is: a structural problem that requires a joint and viable solution for its sustainability . This silence responds to the fear of upsetting one of the groups with the greatest electoral weight. But the national coffers do not admit more dissimulation: as we publish today, the accumulated deficit of Social Security since 2011 already exceeds 100,000 million euros, which would throw a debt for each pensioner of more than 10,800 euros. The good ruler is distinguished by telling the truth to the voters, however uncomfortable, to act accordingly.

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