Holders of his speech:
- The GPP agriculture spokesperson highlights that in the shock plan proposed by the Popular Group is, among other issues, to reduce insurance premiums and fiscal modules, offset the rise in the price of energy and the SMI, adjust the diesel price, initiate diplomatic contacts to reduce tariffs and a CAP never lower than the current one.
- He reproaches the Government for its lack of dialogue with the representatives of the agri-food sector and demands that it attend to their needs and listen to them, as the PP has done.
- Announces that the Popular Group will help improve the Royal Decree-law, but warns that it will not give the Executive a blank check, that is, it will not consent to "one more tax or one euro less than what farmers and ranchers need."
- He assures that “the farmers, at this time, do not need to be audited more, or more bureaucracy, or more inspections; They need to reduce production costs, be more competitive, sell more and thus have profits, and that the government does not humiliate them. "
- He points out that "what farmers are asking for is earning by working, like everyone else, and this can only be achieved by paying less or making more income, that is, by reducing their expenses or receiving aid to compensate for rising costs."
- "The Royal Decree-Law on measures in agriculture and food has a lot of publicity, but nothing budgetary," he denounces.
- He accuses the Government of not having done anything in these two years, causing "loss of confidence, resources, competitiveness and viability in the farms."
CORONAVIRUS
- He thanks farmers and ranchers for their daily effort in this crisis so severe due to the coronavirus, which "allows us to have food and eat every day."
- He believes that it would have been better to perfect this Royal Decree-Law through dialogue and rigor, "and now focus on the problems that are arising as a consequence of the pandemic."
- He underlines that the consequences in the sector due to the pandemic are the lack of labor for harvesting, the problems of moving workers to farms, the lack of livestock outlet in the markets, the inability to negotiate the contracts that are overcoming, the lack of security equipment in industries and the lack of broadband in the rural world.
- He warns that without the agri-food sector, “Spain will depend on what other countries want to sell and charge us, we will not have food, we will close the towns, and half of Spain will become a desert.
