This Friday the Commission of Inquiry into Public Procurement of the Galician Autonomous Administration meets. A meeting at the end of which an approved work plan should emerge and, ideally, agreed between the groups. But after the negotiations that took place this morning, a few hours before the meeting, and the statements of the different parties, reaching an agreement is not considered a simple task. Cross accusations of “veto”, “impositions”, “lies” and “manipulations” were a constant trend between the groups throughout the morning, notably the BNG and the populars. The nationalists attack the majority group for wanting to impose their appearances and prevent others, such as that of the national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo; while the PPdeG accuses Ana Pontón’s party of being false in a way never seen in the Chamber.
The first point of conflict was the reason for the meeting this morning, to try to negotiate a work plan between all the groups, which was convened, as the nationalist deputy – and secretary of the table – said during of the commission’s subsequent press conference. Luis Bará, “in extremis”, after having vilified this at the table the day before, the popular group had refused to negotiate. Accusations that the popular spokesperson, Alberto Pazos, described as fallacious, assuring that “this “unprecedented use of lies is scandalous”, affirming that at the table, the “PP decided to impose its own proposal without make no concessions to the rest”. groups. “They should know perfectly well that the meeting of the board of directors has the sole purpose of fixing the date and time of the meeting of the commission, during which the work plan is definitively approved”, he affirmed, insisting that “no board of directors, nor any committee of this Parliament, [el gallego] “It has the capacity to debate the proposals presented by the parliamentary groups because it is not the competent body.” “Mr Bará was definitely not in the right place,” he concluded on this subject.
In any case, at the end of the meeting, which after being delayed by an hour, lasted approximately 45 minutes, both the Bloc and the popular group expressed their intention to reach an agreement before the meeting of the commission, while specifying that it is a series of questions which are, for both parties, a reason for disagreement.
On the one hand, Bará affirmed in the press conference that followed that, precisely with the desire to negotiate, his formation was equipped with a “minimum proposal” to serve as a “starting point”. Of course, he clarified that “the positions are still quite far apart”, adding that “the PP has clearly decided […] establish vetoes to appear” and prevent “the BNG, as promoter of this commission of inquiry, from being able to make concrete proposals on a person, both because of its political and commercial responsibilities”. His proposal was to allow each group, in proportion to its representation in the House, to name a part of the appearances without the possibility of veto, which the popular group considers a “problem of approach”. acts of those who appear having a connection with the question of the commission, and we have made it known that there are certain proposals which, even today, no one has explained to us the connection they have with the hiring of the Xunta, including. certain companies that do not have a single cent of contract” with the Autonomous Administration, he affirmed.
Some so-called vetoes on which the BNG “is clear” are imposed “from San Caetano by Mr. Rueda” who had previously come from Genoa. And he directly mentioned the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assuring “that he directs the PP’s movements from a distance and imposes vetoes.” For nationalists, “we would not understand” if he did not appear as president of the Xunta between 2009 and 2022. “Absolutely incomprehensible, surreal”.
Likewise, Bará spoke of what, for the Bloc, constitutes a “difficulty” in reaching an agreement. The Popular, said Pazos, based on their work plan, as a majority group, understand that there should be around 50 appearances, and they appreciate “the high number of coincidences” between the proposals of the nationalists and the socialists: 11 names from each of the lists also appear on the PP list. “In addition, the popular group proposed to reach a transaction so that a representative of each of the companies which motivated the creation of this commission of inquiry can be integrated into the work plan”, which must “be designated by the companies” that are, he added. affirmed, those who are aware of their organizational chart and designate a person with direct knowledge of the contract that each had with the Xunta.
Which, it seems, the BNG is not going to accept, considering that the names proposed in its work plan “are key people to explain the relations between these companies and the Xunta”. For Bará, the fact that it is the companies that decide who will appear is “a real distortion and perversion of the functioning of the commissions”. “The PP does not intend to include in the list of persons appearing neither Mr. Núñez Feijóo nor Ms. Micaela Núñez Feijóom, director of Eulen, nor those responsible for the small or urgent companies that we propose. […] They want to replace them with other companies and other people,” an “obvious reason for disagreement.” For its part, the popular group considers that “with this long list of appearances and with the abundant documentation that we are requesting for this commission of inquiry, it would be more than sufficient to demystify the false accusations made about the contracts concluded by the Xunta de Galicia and the management carried out for the construction of the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital”, explained Pazos, for whom it is a “demonstration of the full will of the Popular Group to facilitate the work of the commission, “from which clear and resounding conclusions can be drawn”. They, he assured, will facilitate “maximum transparency” without “allowing the Parliament of Galicia to become a circus, the greatest media glory of the opposition which insists on the need to elect certain people based on their kinship and not their relationship with them. professional skills. »
