José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has said that “although the crisis is strong and still has tough times in the next three or four months, she will leave Spain in the second half of 2009.” It has also ensured that the Spaniards would be spared next year at around 20,000 million euros in paying their mortgages “thanks to the steady fall in Euribor” and was convinced that “all the autonomous communities are going to win” because “van to have more resources. “
The president, told TV-PSOE, which took stock of 2008 and announced what he expects for 2009, stressed that next year will be a test for the Executive and for the country, while what he described as “serious challenge to the government,” because everything that “we have adopted has to work and we have to manage it effectively.”
“Obsession for employment”
In its balance sheet, the biggest concern for Zapatero is employment, which it considers “an obsession” and added that “I want to say to people who have lost their jobs that the government is thinking of them and working for them.”
Those who have the “anguish” of losing their jobs, “would like to say that we have a system that guarantees protection of unemployment by two, fourteen or sixteen months rent,” and if further developments in economic activity “would put us into more difficulties, the Government will be sensitive to this situation. “
“Strong” to combat the use
Zapatero stressed on the difficulties that “we will not let any family or person in a situation of grave risk from the standpoint of revenue”.
Also, the president believes that the Spanish economy is able to recover job creation, because “we are strong,” has earned in income per capita and far the country has capitalized on infrastructure.
The saving of Spaniards
On the other hand, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said on Saturday that the Spaniards would be spared next year at around 20,000 million euros in paying their mortgages “thanks to the steady fall in Euribor since last Oct. 15, the result of measures to support the financial system implemented by European governments and the European Central Bank. ” The president has ensured that this rebate will be felt starting in January, and will result in a decrease in monthly premiums.
Trambién Zapatero has stressed that the actions of its Executive in response to the crisis have already begun to bear fruit on the financial system, which had “clear risk” of bankruptcy of the Spanish authorities and guaranteed the deposits of savers Spaniards.
The ability of the state, “better than the market”
The chief executive, who noted that the “first signs of economic recovery” does not begin to manifest itself until the end of 2009, said that the crisis has shown that strong state “is indispensable” and is capable of doing things so well and even better than the market alone, “while he insisted that, to get out of it will be necessary to strengthen the cohesion and social policies. “Investing is socially invest in the potential of the wealth of the Spanish economy,” rivets.
Stranger to criticism from the opposition, the chairman of the executive and general secretary of the PSOE said that all communities will benefit from the division to be established in the agreement on a new financing model for autonomous being debated in those days, which according to the Estimates should be closed before the end of the year.
Necessary to discuss the division
Zapatero has also stated that it is necessary “discussing” how to spread “the resources that the State intended to different regions” in this diverse and plural Spain, with 17 autonomous communities. “
In this regard, the President explained that the distribution will be handled in accordance with the “idea that the citizens of Almeria, like those of Ourense, like those of Girona and Cadiz that must be very clear, that all autonomous communities are going to win, will adhere more resources committed to the rule. “
