The PP puts the rest in Brussels so that Therese Ribera is not a European commissioner. Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, according to sources popular consulted by OKDIARIO, have decided to go “with everything” against the socialist minister and will promote a “secret bulletin” and “in a bulletin box” to try to ensure that Ribera, singled out for the DANA crisis, is not appointed executive vice-president of the clean, fair and competitive transition and responsible for the Competition portfolio of the new Commission.
PP sources tell this newspaper that the fact that Ribera must submit to a secret ballot and to the polls would be a very important step“because if 15 days ago it was impossible to overthrow the socialist minister, it would now be more difficult to get elected, especially since In the commissions which evaluate it, the European PP is in the majorityalthough here there is the freedom to vote for each national delegation”, underline the same sources.
“If we can put this issue to a secret vote, we will have already gone as far as possible and then It will depend on the MEPs of the European PP present in the commissions where we in principle have the majority”, underline these sources. The Spanish PP has already announced that it will vote against Ribera, whatever the format.
At the same time, PP sources emphasize that it is very likely that this possible secret ballot in the European Parliament will in no case take place before the Wednesday November 20the day Ribera will have to appear at the Congress of Deputies to explain his management in the Valencia tragedy. Furthermore, the European PP demanded that Ribera, before any assessment or vote on the matter, commit to presenting her resignation if she is indicted.
It turns out that there are already several complaints filed against Teresa Ribera, who would lose her power before the Supreme Court from which she now benefits as Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge if she were elected European Commissioner.
From the PP they emphasize that “it is an additional risk in Brussels to those that already exist regarding the figure of Ribera” and they emphasize that the European PP and the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyenare aware of this, being another “tool” to “defend that he is not the right person for the job”. Above all, popular sources insist, because he still has to give many explanations about what he did, and above all “about what he stopped doing” as Minister of DANA, since the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) depended on her. This public body recently informed the Valencian Generalitat by email that the Poyo ravine had overflowed.
“The Spanish PP is determined not to support the new community government if Ribera is part of it, and we will carry it require secret voting and secret ballot until the end. Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola“They know this position,” say the sources. Furthermore, “any MEP that we call to find out if he would support a vice-president of a party other than his own, given that there is in his country 226 dead and 14 missingbecause he understands the position of the Spanish PP”, add the cited sources.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserratreiterated this Sunday that “there is no possibility” that his party would support a new College of Commissioners that would include Teresa Ribera after her controversial performance in preventing the dramatic effects of DANA and the flooding of the Poyo ravine.
“There is no possibility that the Popular Party supports a community government of which Teresa Ribera would be part after everything that has happened in these two weeks,” Montserrat said in a video sent to the media by the PP.
Montserrat, as Feijóo did last week, called on Sánchez to propose another candidate. Otherwise, the PP will ask to submit Ribera’s “suitability” to a secret vote of MEPs.
“In this case we will see if the deputies want to sponsor with their vote a vice president who has a problem of management and public responsibility in which more than 220 Europeans have lost their lives in the Community of Valencia and Castile-La Mancha ,” he added.
