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The Minister of Education and spokesperson for the Executive of the PSOE has accused Núñez Feijóo and the opposition made by the PP of being "a poof".

Pilar Alegría thus referred to the statements of the PP leader this weekend in an interview in EL MUNDO in which she assured that Pedro Sánchez has put each Spaniard "a poof" of 6,000 euros in debt.

The socialist spokeswoman, in an interview on

Onda Cero

, has assured that Feijóo is lying when he transfers figures on the economic situation to citizens.

And she has cited rising public debt and inflation.

Pilar Alegría has lamented that the popular are "anchored in the no" and refuse to support all the measures adopted by the Government to try to alleviate the effects of inflation and in "catastrophism" when it does not recognize that the Spanish economy is among the eurozone countries "one of the fastest growing".

According to the minister, the Government insists that "the country's economic foundations are solid" and despite this, the Government, she said, "does not settle for optimism."

"What infuriates me about the PP is that it seems that the worse things are going for the country, the better things are going for them", he stated and asked the PP to "assume that they lost the elections" and decide to "put their shoulders to the wheel".

"Having such an opposition in this country is a bummer," she said, referring to Núñez Feijóo's statements this weekend in EL MUNDO.

In this sense, Alegría wanted to insist that the Government has managed to reduce the debt from 120% of

GDP

to 117% and has emphasized that the leader of the PP is lying when he draws the country's economic situation to the citizens.

The minister has defended the measures of the Executive as beneficial "for the majority" and has pointed out as one of the "most important" the reduction of VAT on electricity, whose first tranche of reduction was decided by the Executive but resisted for several months to the second, proposed by the PP.

Alegría has ruled out the possibility of deflating personal

income tax

because, in his opinion, "it would not benefit the lowest incomes, those that are below, he said, 24,000 euros and are not required to file an income statement. Despite To this end, this measure has been approved by the PSOE in the

Basque Country

, something that according to Alegría "is not an inconsistency" given the "very different" regional system that Euskadi and

Navarra

have and the "much higher income level" that exists in those communities.

He has also defended the extraordinary taxes that the Government intends to impose on banks and energy companies as an appropriate measure for the Executive to redistribute what is collected for the benefit of the working class.

It is a question, he has said, of "redistribution and solidarity."

The PSOE spokeswoman has minimized the advantage that, according to the polls, the PP now has over the PSOE.

"There is still a long way to go before the elections and things can change from one day to the next," she said.

"Time to time that someone is going to have an eternal legislature," she concluded.

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