Feijóo attacks Sánchez: "In Spain, if you work, you pay; if you steal, you get paid."

MadridPedro Sánchez did not expect Alberto Núñez Feijóo to leave aside his usual Macedonian questions in the control session in Congress, in which he mixes all kinds of attacks on the Spanish president to portray a government on the verge of death, and focus on the New contributions for the self-employed for 2026"He has turned Spain into a country that is expensive for workers and cheap for scoundrels," Feijóo protested, warning Sánchez that citizens are "tired of paying for the embezzlement and privileges of their people." "With you, it's worth being a snitch. If you work, you pay; if you steal, you get paid," he denounced, also alluding to the alleged corruption case involving his two former organizing secretaries in the PSOE, Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos, the latter summoned to testify this Wednesday before the Supreme Court.

Sánchez made no reference to the controversy over self-employed contributions that divides the PSOE and Sumar. He recalled that the International Monetary Fund had improved its forecasts for the State and he followed the arguments he had already prepared against the PP. "Stop talking about black boxes, if they have existed it has been in your party," said the head of the State executive, in response to Feijóo, who had complained that "families who struggle to make ends meet see how the PSOE and the Ministry of Transport headed by José Luis Ábalos are pushing the bills like they are in a pro.

Social Security has begun to negotiate with social partners, unions and employers' associations new contributions for self-employed workers for next year and until 2028. This negotiation was already anticipated, because the reform of the self-employed regime was approved in 2022, with the votes in favor 2025. Since that year, self-employed workers contribute based on their net income.

The political spat around this arises because this week the ministry led by Elma Saiz (PSOE) has launched a first proposal for new contributions and It foresees a gradual increase, something that was already anticipated when the reform was approved in 2022. Sumar has expressed its disagreement, and not all organizations have planned for it. ATA, linked to the CEOE, rejects it, while UPTA approves, reports Núria Rius Montaner. ...

Since the Spanish government's judicial agenda is not in line with the Spanish government, the PSOE has found a loophole in abortion to divert attention, and Sánchez has counterattacked Feijóo on this issue. "What's indecent is your silence. We've seen Isabel Díaz Ayuso tell women that, given that right, they should go get an abortion outside the Community of Madrid, and you haven't said anything," the Spanish president complained. Along the same lines, Sánchez criticized the opposition leader for not having said anything about the breast cancer screening scandal in Andalusia, which has sparked a crisis in Juanma Moreno's government—the incumbent minister resigned—and for not having commented on the fact that the PP endorses the men. Rodríguez, in relation to the case against the State Attorney General.