SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Popular Party candidate for the Congress of Deputies for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Juan Antonio Rojas, has criticized the fact that President Sánchez’s anti-inflation measures “pass by on the islands, while the Canary Islands lead the rise in prices with the shopping basket skyrocketed” and assured that the PP will lower taxes to “stop suffocating families, SMEs and the self-employed”.
Juan Antonio Rojas pointed out that the policies of the Sánchez government “have impoverished the Canaries like never before” and recalled that, since 2022, the cost of living in the Canary Islands “has risen by 13%, which means that Canarian families have every increasingly difficult to make ends meet”.
During a visit to the Nuestra Señora de África Market, Rojas warned that, according to the Bank of Spain, the rise in prices and the continuous increase in mortgages are jeopardizing nearly 77,000 homes in the Canary Islands, “figures that deny that our economy is going like a motorcycle, rather it seems that Sánchez is trying to sell us the motorcycle”.
For the popular candidate, the increase in the price of the shopping cart and the rise in monthly mortgage payments “are making life very difficult, especially for those with limited financial resources.” “Today we are poorer than at the beginning of the legislature, with much greater debt, we bear more taxes and we are leaders in unemployment, precariousness and loss of purchasing power of wages,” said Rojas, who assured that today, with the PSOE, ” the middle class is at risk, the one that sustains the welfare state and constitutes the social foundation of our country”.
In this sense, Juan Antonio Rojas announced that the PP will carry out a comprehensive reform of the tax system with criteria of efficiency, equity and sustainability of public services aimed at protecting savings, investment and promoting job creation, while advancing a lowering of personal income tax for income of less than 40,000 euros to offset the impact of inflation in the first 100 days of government.
Likewise, the popular assured that, after July 23, the PP will launch a program of fiscal incentives financed with the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism to inject funds efficiently and quickly into the productive sectors. “In order for our country to have stable and sustainable growth that guarantees the creation of quality employment, we need policies that generate confidence in businessmen so that they invest and create employment.”
“Spain needs the economic policies of the PP, because only we can offer a horizon of certainty and hope for the economy, to generate quality employment, ensure prosperity and improve the Welfare State, as we demonstrated in 1996 and in 2011, when we inherited situations of crisis and uncertainty that then, as now, the PSOE governments were determined to deny,” he concluded.
