The national economy continues to lose bellows. Despite the small rebound in the last quarter of the year, GDP grew by 2% in 2019, a slower pace than the Government had anticipated. In fact, this growth represents the weakest advance in the last five years. It is necessary to go back to 2014, until the dawn of the recovery of the crisis, to observe a trend so negative, that it only confirms the path of deceleration and the lower competitiveness of our economy, two evidences that the Executive has wanted to hide until the satiety. Bypassing this disguising irresponsibility, the most worrying thing is that while the national accounting data offers us such an x-ray, the Government is inane. Well, instead of taking measures aimed at reversing bad data, its program continues to be immersed in an electoral dynamic, opening uncontrollably the tap of public spending, making decisions aimed at satisfying large voting grounds such as pensioners and officials, and not at all compatible with the urgent and necessary limitation of the deficit and the reduction of public debt. On the contrary, as it shows that the State spends 300,000 million euros a year among pensioners, officials and beneficiaries of some type of benefit .

As we publish today, the State continues to be the great payer in Spain, where the number of payrolls is around 15 million, well above the number of private sector employees. The bulky bill, the 300,000 million euros, is the result of having legislated giving away the ear and pocket to the voter, as Sánchez has done in functions and as he intends to continue. The large disbursements are demanded by pensioners and officials, groups of enormous electoral weight on which the president has focused great efforts and resources. There is the 0.9% rise to pensioners and salary increases to public workers, or that in 2019, for the second consecutive year, the largest offer of public employment of the decade was approved.

Despite the continuous warnings of all types of organizations warning of the need to reduce public spending, nothing seems to indicate that the Government will work for, at least, not balancing the balance so much. At a time like the current one, in which the degree of vulnerability of our economy is not negligible at all, what is expected of the rulers is the responsibility to take measures that too often involve not satisfying citizens. The situation requires fleeing from expansive spending policies. It requires containment and seek the greatest number of consensus that is needed to address the structural reforms whose postponement burdens our economy. Facing this challenge implies replacing the ruinous demagogy with a rigorous economic management. Something that, for the moment, has shone by his absence in this Executive.

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