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The President of the Government has launched the publicity phase of his Budgets in the control session in Congress and has taken the opportunity to further deepen his discourse of rich versus poor.

His thesis emphasizes that the PP defends the former and he the latter.

This has been the line that Pedro Sánchez has followed in his face to face with the representatives of the opposition who have reproached him for state accounts with electoral overtones.

Pedro Sánchez has emphasized that in Spain there is a "wealthy minority" as opposed to a "working majority" and he intends to make the former pay for the benefit of the latter and the welfare state.

He has insisted that his Budgets make those of 2018 pale, the last ones prepared by the PP and that he had to assume after the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.

"When you governed, poverty and inequality increased," he stated, unlike his government that "will put all the resources of the State in favor of the social majority and not the wealthy minority" as, in his opinion, the PP did when he ruled

For the spokesperson for the popular party, Cuca Gamarra, the PSOE is once again plunging the country into a crisis with "electoral budgets to compare wills and stay in power."

The PP argues that today in Spain there are more than 13 million Spaniards in a situation of poverty or risk of social exclusion while the enormous Executive "does not make any sacrifices".

Gamarra has assured that the Executive "spends like never before while the Spanish sacrifice themselves like never before".

"While he entertains the rich, he fleeces the workers," he has sentenced.

The spokeswoman for Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has accused Sánchez of being on the way to "bursting" the welfare state and has criticized the linear increase of 8.5% in pensions.

The same low as the maximum, to the point that the highest pensions will exceed 3,000 euros.

For Cs this measure is unfair to the younger population and only aims to herd votes in a fishing ground of more than nine million people.

Sánchez has replied that young people are defended with scholarships, the 4.0 school program, educational spending and the youth rental bonus.

The president has insisted that his budgets focus on helping the working class while he asks the "haves" to "put their shoulders to the wheel."

The popular have not been able to resist reminding him that he voted to freeze pensions under the mandate of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Pedro Sánchez and his first vice president, Nadia Calviño, have accused the opposition of a lack of patriotism, of being deniers and of trying to torpedo all the measures that support the middle classes and the most vulnerable.

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