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While in Valladolid Alfonso Fernández Mañueco takes office as president of the Junta de Castilla y León, in Madrid Alberto Núñez Feijóo is meeting with the social agents.

In the morning he has held meetings with the presidents of Cepyme (Gerardo Cuerva) and CEOE (Antonio Garamendi), and in the afternoon he will meet with the top leaders of CCOO (Unai Sordo) and UGT (Pepe Álvarez).

The president of the PP wants to compare with them the economic plan that he is going to send to the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the end of the week.

The first stake, that of the businessmen, was the most favorable for Feijóo, who has garnered clear support for his proposals.

Upon his departure from Genoa, 13, Garamendi has assured that "there is a lot of room to reduce taxes" to "solve the problems of families in Spain."

Garamendi has applauded the "criteria" that Feijóo wants to apply, but has not wanted to detail the details of the proposal that the PP leader has outlined: "It has to be him who presents it."

After proposing to the Government more than a month ago (March 16) the reduction of VAT and the Special Tax on Hydrocarbons, as well as the deflation of the IRPF rate, the PP still does not detail the specific details of its new economic plan , beyond the scope of the adjustment of the Income Tax: more than 3,500 million euros.

Feijóo does not want to do it until he sends them to the President of the Executive.

"We are saying it clearly: as a consequence of inflation there are billions of more money collected every month, and it is much more logical that this money was on the street, in people and in companies," Garamendi said.

"Less rates means more tax bases," defended the president of the employers' association.

"In Spain, 24% of the economy is submerged and in the rest of Europe, 13%; there is a huge gap and we have to see where the people who do not pay are, and that those of us who pay, pay something less", has Garamendi explained.

In addition, Feijóo has embraced the proposal of the Institute of Economic Studies (IEE, dependent on CEOE) to reduce government spending by 60,000 million euros, and this is something that Garamendi "shares": "We think there may be a lot of room for efficiency of State spending, due to overlapping administrations and things that can be improved", without cutting back on health or education.

In his opinion, "there is a better way of managing" than the Central Administration, the autonomies, the town councils and "so many public companies" as, in his opinion, there are in Spain.

"We have been saying it for four years," he defended, after thanking Feijóo for the "first contact" between the two.

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