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Pedro Sanchez, photographed in Madrid in November 2024
Politics – and why not ? In France, the Iberian charm works at full speed. Nothing to do with the images of Épinal and other shots of the summer than carries Spain. No, the hexagonal elected officials are based on his ” miracle Economic, and its insolent growth at almost 3 %.
The scenario has all the more all of the pretty Rom-Com, because 10 years ago, nobody was betting on our neighbors mired in an economic crisis at the bleak horizons and that France is now looking for 40 billion savings. Pledge that the ” fascination “Tricolor is persistent, just observe the” ah » et « oh “, Aroused by an article from BFMTV devoted to” locomotive Spanish in a Europe, it blocked on the petrol reserve.
On the left and on the right, everyone has something to draw and misunderstood on symbolic measurements. And too bad if it is a question finally to compare, but the leastcabbage and carrots, without taking into account a multitude of different economic indicators and trajectories.
When the left dreams of social recovery …
On the left, like the communist senator Ian Brossat, we attribute this economic success ” In the left government Simply. The social measures of the Prime Minister Ministers are particularly requested, like the elongation of parental leave and the hiring of thousands of officials.
The deputy LFI Christophe Bex was still recently listed on X, a revaluation of the minimum wage, a cap of rents, an indexing of pensions on inflation. Perhaps forgetting a little quickly that for these last two points, this is also the case in France, and that in terms of wage level Spain remains below.
Rather than detail, the left cenacles also highlight the success of a revival by growth, perceived in opposition to that led by the macronist executive since 2017. And the ecologist Karima Delli to scath on the social network X: “ Spain does the opposite of France: increase in wages, reinforced public services, social policy … and that is a hit. Like what, austerity is not inevitable – it’s just a delirium made in Bercy ”.
Economic considerations to which is undoubtedly added to the left a certain political idealization: Pedro Sanchez manages to maintain itself in power thanks to fragile alliances, in a decentralized country, where it is also surrounded by major regions by the right.
… the right requires the detail of the addition
These injunctions to more social have in any event the gift of irritating the centrists and the right, who praise the difficult efforts imposed in 2013, and which would allow Spain today to display this insolent vitality. “” We know that Spain has known an austerity purge before arriving there like never before … next to which the Bayrou budget is only freshwater herbal tea! “, Reports the Renaissance city councilor, Loïc Chabrier, on X.
The former MODEM candidate for the municipal elections Michel Merrelle also insists on the dimension ” liberal Politicians led by Spain. Like others, including ex-macronist deputy Stéphane Vojetta, he agitated a real scarecrow for the left and unions: retirement at 67 years which will be in place in Spain in 2027. A figure mentioned by the economist Sylvain Catherine who estimates that to align himself on the model of Spain, it would also be necessary in France “ Double aid to business, or reduce their taxation so much to align net compulsory levies ».
If the most irritated, even evoking the Ultraibral Model of Javier Milei in Argentina, the cake is obviously so attractive that even the extreme right is ready to take a part. RN deputies Frédéric Falcon and Guillaume Bigot also found a measure to partly explain the “ Guaranteed growth »From the peninsula: the exit of the European energy market. A measure, at random, also defended by lepenist troops.
These other key indicators
If the political class dreams in front of the 3 % of growth, it is also perhaps that they are more akin to the Moulins de Don Quixote. As the Romaric journalist Godin in Mediapart detailed last February, the dynamics of GDP per capita is not flamboyant, productivity has little margin of progression, and the Spanish model remains based on mass tourism. As for the budget, it can only be remembered that it has not been voted since 2023, which is not without asking a few democratic questions.
The peninsula is also the second largest beneficiary of the post-Cavid European recovery plan. Payments that serve “ in fact as a rescue budget », And allow us to bypass political blockage, explained to our colleagues Echo, Jorge Onrubia, professor of public finance in Madrid. A ” mirage “Rather than” miracle » ?
