Friday, March 29

The government gets the numbers



His most extreme adversaries maintain that the Pedro Sánchez government is a (circus) number: and perhaps that is why it is surprising that the numbers are starting to turn out very well. One thing does not remove the other.

Still submerged, like everyone else, in an epidemic that has come to upset everything, the Spanish economy has just closed the year with fewer unemployed than before the arrival of the virus. Even more than that, the number of contributors to Social Security has broken its historical record with a figure that is close to twenty million practicing workers.

It is not a bad record, far from it, for a country where a cocktail of reds, Bolivarians, social-communists and concubines of ETA members rule, if we are to stick to the adjectives that those who do not profess dedicate to the Council of Ministers of Sánchez particular darling. It is known that businessmen and the European Union do not share that opinion; or something strange happens here.

To this must be added the relative tranquility that exists in Catalonia, an autonomous kingdom that until not long ago was daily front-page news due to its permanent state of turmoil. Although that is another issue.

It is true that the job market continues to function under the guidelines of the labor reform of Mariano Rajoy, whose merits should not be detracted either. Far from repealing it, the current Government has limited itself to agreeing with the employers and the unions on some cosmetic touches that in no way affect its essence.

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It could be objected that the recovery in finances benefits the whole of Europe (let alone China) for the mere reason that everything that goes up ends up going down and vice versa, as in the latter case. But even so, the rapid regeneration of the economy sunk just over a year ago by SARS-Cov-2 is still surprising.

If the happy numbers of employment and affiliation known these days are produced despite the existence of departments as unrepentant as Equality or Consumption (which has it taken with meat in this country of northern cows), the merit has to be certainly older.

It may be an exaggeration to compare the good performance of the economy under the current patchwork-darned government with what happened in Portugal, although the similarities do not seem entirely far-fetched. It is known that the Portuguese Government, chaired by a Social Democrat and supported (until recently) by lifelong Reds, managed to bring the neighboring country out of bankruptcy with the pleasure of the European Union and the praise of the great international organizations.

This is not exactly what happened in Spain, where Sánchez had no choice but to assume a coalition regime to remain in command; although it would be unfair to ignore that the current president was inspired by the Portuguese governance model. Including a couple of study trips to Lisbon.

Like his Lusitanian colleague Antonio Costa, Sánchez may have reached the reasonable conclusion that there is no possible government in Europe if EU mandates are not followed. His merit, if anything, would have been to say yes to all the occurrences of his uncomfortable partners to do, then, what those who really command. It’s just a theory, but the truth is that the numbers come out.

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