Pedro Sánchez, on the latest growth forecasts: "Spain moves forwards"

Lower House of Parliament, Madrid

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, along with members of his Executive, during the control session (Pool Congreso)

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has once again highlighted the favourable economic situation, according to the growth forecasts for 2025 from the European Commission and the household income data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), during the Government control session in the Lower House of Parliament.

The Spanish economy will grow by 2.6% in 2025 and 2% in 2026, according to the European Commission, said the president, who added the latest calculation of the income of Spanish households by the OECD to these figures - the one that is rising the most, according to this organisation - to show them as an example that "Spain moves forwards".

Pedro Sánchez, who addressed this issue in his reply to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, deputy of the People's Group, insisted that the government wants to make progress in this area and has framed the recent validation of the Royal Decree-Law to defend the agricultural, fishing, commercial and industrial sectors from the tariffs imposed by the US government.

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, addresses the deputies during the control session | Pool Congreso

Strengthening public education and equality

President Sánchez also assessed the latest measures adopted by the Executive in the social sphere in his reply to Mertxe Aizpurúa, a member of the Euskal Herria Bildu Parliamentary Group.

"We are investing another 400 million euros in this last Council of Ministers to continue reducing the school dropout rate of 13% and to bring it into line with the European average, which is 9%," explained the president, who attributed the reduction in this indicator in recent years to the Government's "firm" commitment to public education and Vocational Training and the "rescue" of school reinforcement policies that had been suppressed.

Secondly, the president referred to the transfer of more than 100 million euros to the regional governments to continue strengthening co-responsibility, "a structural change, a transformation that requires time and constancy in policies", explained Pedro Sánchez, who pointed to equality between men and women as "one of the hallmarks of the Government".

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, in the Lower House of Parliament | Pool Congreso

Catalonia: policies for "stability" and Housing Law

Also in the social area, the President addressed the issue of housing - "the main problem of Spanish families" - in his response to Míriam Nogueras, from the Junts per Catalunya Parliamentary Group, to whom he welcomed the application of the Housing Law in Catalonia, despite the fact that there is still "a lot of room for improvement from a socio-economic point of view".

"We are seeing how positive the application of this law is in the evolution of rental prices, reversing a dramatic situation in many homes in our country," he stressed. "What we have done in housing policy is to intervene in a market that does not work", assures President Sánchez, who has also highlighted that the Government has multiplied the budget allocated to this issue eightfold, is making progress in the construction of public housing and has created the Single Register of Tourist Housing "to put a stop to a situation that affects Barcelona and Catalonia".

"Today Catalonia is growing almost three times more than seven years ago; there are half a million more people working; companies that once left are returning; and inequality has been reduced by 2.2 points," he said. "What we are doing is contributing to stability in Catalonia and, therefore, to attracting foreign investment, economic growth, job creation and the reindustrialisation of one of the main engines of the Spanish state," he concluded.

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