A belated, demagogic and unilateral plan

It is paradoxical that Sánchez, at this point in the legislature, wonders: "What else has to happen to put aside quarrels and sectarianism and join forces?"

Yesterday, after refusing for a month to apply urgent measures to alleviate the economic effects of inflation and the energy crisis aggravated by the war, Sánchez announced a shock plan with great fanfare that he could have adopted weeks ago.

After dismissing his partners and the opposition, not attending

Heeding their requests and hiding the supposed magic recipes from them, the president now calls for unity to support a project that most learned about through the press or a five-minute call from Félix Bolaños.

And yesterday, in the umpteenth exhibition of propaganda -surrounded this time by Ibex personalities-, Sánchez allowed himself to appeal to the patriotism of "political, institutional and social actors."

Certainly, they have already shown greater responsibility than the president by ensuring that they will seriously analyze and constructively criticize what they read in the media about the package of measures.

But all

, and they know that the patriotic invocation is their way of alluding to the mere

All European economies suffer the consequences of the invasion, but some more than others.

And Spain is less prepared than the rest to deal with them because of disastrous management.

Other countries have managed to articulate more or less successful strategies to deal with the crisis.

This has not been the case of the Government, which has delayed the adoption of measures arguing that it could only act with the permission of Brussels.

Under that premise, he embarked on a community tour aimed at strengthening his pro-European image, perhaps focused on a possible political withdrawal from some institution of the Union, since the detailed study of the measures reveals that

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Spain has lost precious time because Sánchez was obstinate in trusting everything to a negotiation from which he has only brought the commitment that his exceptional energy plan will be studied through price intervention.

In the absence of knowing the fringes, the plan outlined by the Government will cost 16,000 million.

It is approved today in a Council of Ministers that has been advertising for weeks in the purest style of its old electoral Fridays, and then there will be a period of 30 days for its validation in Congress.

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It does not take into account progressivity: the universal bonus of 20 cents benefits the rich as well as the poor, those who drive and those who do not, diluting the demand for transport.

It fails to its commitment acquired in La Palma to increase tax rebates.

And it gives off a rude electoral stink: why are the updates of the rents that correspond according to the CPI and not the rise in pensions or the civil service payroll?

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