At the beginning of last April, legislators from the Broad Front began to question that the Minister of Economy and Finance, Azucena Arbeleche, “lied” during the campaign against the referendum when she repeated over and over again that poverty had decreased when official data says so. contrary, since in 2021 child poverty was higher compared to 2019.
However, in the last few hours, the president of the National Party, Pablo Iturralde, published a graph on his Twitter account showing the evolution of poverty from 2015 to 2021 in the different age groups.
Iturralde stated that the data from the report on child poverty “clearly demonstrates that the Broad Front misinforms and confuses the population.”
He said that “they ignore the duplication of economic transfers to vulnerable households, the drop in unemployment from 10.5 to 7.7% and the constant support of the government to people in a situation of economic fragility.”
stories about cuckoos
“The FA stories about cuckoos and the end of social policies fell with the facts and the results in times of pandemic and the drop in the fiscal deficit,” said Iturralde, who also claimed for the truth.
The legislator published a graph in which it can be seen that the highest levels of poverty, in the period considered, were registered in 2020 in all age groups, but that they have also begun to decrease in 2021.
Only in the group of children under 6 years of age the poverty figure, according to Iturralde, in 2020 was 21.3% against 18.6 in 2021. While in 2015 it was 20.6% and in 2016 it was 20.1 %.
