With the electoral tension in full effervescence, the PSOE has decided to enter fully into the confrontation with the autonomous governments of the PP. And, especially, with its two maximum references: the Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the Andalusian Juanma Moreno. In a rally held in Alicante that brought together this Friday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with his main baron, the Valencian Ximo Puig, the Socialists put the popular executives in the antipodes of the management model to defend.

Puig, who never avoids the opportunity to attack Madrid politics, also decided to question this time the Andalusian, taking advantage of the recent visit to Elche of Juan Bravo, former counselor of the Junta and current deputy secretary of Economy of the PP. "He dared to say that the Valencian Community was fatal," lamented the president of the Generalitat, who said that while Andalusia had created 11,000 jobs, in the Valencian Community they have been 102,000.

But Puig did not look only at the economic indicators to question the management of the popular. As usual in him, he pointed to Madrid's fiscal policy as the "neoliberal model to fight": "We are not going to follow the model of fiscal collapse that means ending the welfare state." In this sense, he joked that it was "magnificent" that low incomes saved in Madrid two euros of taxes a year.

"Madrid is fine... for those who have a lot of money," he said ironically, after recalling, in reference to Ayuso, that during the pandemic "he made a flag of going out to the street to drink canes instead of defending people's lives."

In this line, Sánchez took chest of the new tax on banks – "they have earned enough money" – or of having collected in 14 months of war 18,000 million in energy taxes. Appropriating even the rhetoric of Podemos, he stressed: "For every euro we raise taxes on those at the top, we save five euros in taxes on the middle class."

Moreover, Sánchez pointed out that the PP only proposes to lower taxes "when it is in the opposition": "In the Government they raise them to the middle class and amnesty to fraudsters." And if the Spanish economic miracle is usually attributed to the PP, the leader of the PSOE downgraded it to "false miracle". "Good management is what the PSOE does, which has nothing to do with telepreachers or healers," he said. After a triumphalist economic speech, he concluded: "What will we not be able to do with the wind in our favor?"

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