Editorial: El Mundo

• The stagnation of Spanish productivity and the increase in labor costs question the government's economic success story.
• The combination of aforementioned factors means the labor costs have increased with insufficient improvement in the generated value.
• This imbalance limits the ability to sustainably raise wages and threatens competitiveness.
• The Spanish government needs to respond to these concerns rather than boasting about decontextualized growth figures.
• Inflation further creates a discrepancy between the official figures and the real economy.
• The government has the obligation to explain the evolution of real wages and the difficulties in housing access.

Conclusion: Sánchez cannot claim the credit for economic growth without acknowledging and addressing its insufficiencies, notably in productivity, competitiveness, and purchasing power.

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