Continuing from recent days, the national spokesperson for the BNG took advantage of the President of Galicia’s control session in Parliament to criticize what her party considers to be the “veto” of the commission of inquiry into public procurement of the Autonomous Administration of the PPdeG, in a question on the democratic quality of the Xunta. A boycott against which the Bloc is ready to use all legal means at its disposal, assured Pontón, who, for his part, Rueda discredited his insistence on transferring the toxic policy of Madrid to the Community. All this, a few days before the start of the hearings, this Thursday.
At the start of his speech, Pontón used the judicial comparison again, asking the president if “anyone imagines” that “in a trial the main people involved would be prevented from appearing”, saying that even if it is his group that promoted the creation of this commission, the popular “veto the appearances and documentation” that they request. An “absurdity”, he criticized, disfiguring an “unprecedented authoritarian and anti-democratic drift” in the House. “And all this to save Mr. Feijóo,” he assured; to save “Private Ryan”.
He spoke of a People’s Party “cornered by corruption”, which torpedoed the commission from the start, accusing the group of “violating the most basic norms of democratic functioning” of the Chamber. “Who’s nervous here?” he asked rhetorically, throwing back at Rueda the accusation he himself had previously made. “We are talking about something very serious […]. That between 2018 and 2023 the company run by Mr. Feijóo’s sister in Galicia received 1,311 contracts worth 5 million euros”, “we are talking about the 15 million euros that a company took during the pandemic in which Mr. Feijóo’s brother “Brother-in-law is director”, and “the additional cost of 470 million euros to the Álvaro Hospital Cunqueiro,” he reviewed.
For all these reasons, three days before the start of the hearings of the commission of inquiry, this Thursday, after the approval of the work plan, he urged Rueda to “rectify” and “lift the veto on the work plan ” from the Bloc. Otherwise, his party, he said, will use “all legal means at its disposal to defend” its “right and duty” to control the actions of the Xunta. “Don’t let the absolute majority go to your head,” he told the president, which, he insisted, “is not absolutism.”
For his part, Rueda ironically began his intervention with the BNG’s question on the democratic quality of Galicia, after applauding Maduro’s “punch” and, on this subject, he reminded the nationalist that the day before the lawyers of the Chamber confirmed that they were acting in accordance with the regulations. A decision that, he says, because it does not suit them, they choose to ignore. And he recalled that it was the opposition groups that refused to accept the agreement proposed by the popular group to include among the comparisons the representatives of the requested companies, which, “as long as they were not ‘agreement on nothing’, they rejected.
“So, what are you talking about?” The problem is that you did not want a “commission of inquiry”, but a “defamation commission”, a “parallel trial” of Feijóo. And he also wondered if they were going to go to court to present documents in order that they can also be condemned, recalling that the average annual contract with Eulen of the bipartite was 4.67 million euros and, in 2009, 4.72 “Five hundredths more”,. he indicated, wondering if this is the “difference” between what is or is not “favoritism” and, subsequently, he asked Pontón if it was or not. able to say that no one in his immediate family environment had minor contracts with a BNG government. A question that had already been asked the day before, to which he did not answer “We have plenty of time. ‘accuse others’, he launched, assuring that, if this question were asked to him, he could say no.
And he then theorized about the reasons that led the BNG to promote this commission. Two reasons, he explained, which are not exclusive. “The first is that she feels under pressure from the BNG assembly”, for which “she must demonstrate this radicalism”; and the other is to “do a favor to Pedro Sánchez, who worked so hard” for the group. He thus accused the Bloc of having tried from the start to blow up the commission “by all means”, a “symptom of weakness” and an attempt to transfer “the toxic policy” of the central government to Galicia. This policy “that the Galicians reject”, and in which cases of corruption like that of Ábalos, that of Aldama or that of Begoña Gómez are investigated, of which, he said, he has not yet heard only one “criticism” from the BNG.
