The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda; the former Minister of Health and current Catalan President, Salvador Illa; and former health ministers are among current and former officials summoned before a commission of inquirypromoted by the BNG, in the public procurement of the Regional Administration and the alleged additional cost of one million dollars of the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo. This will be the case after the approval of the work plan this Friday. However, Rueda’s predecessor in the Xunta and current national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will not appear, one of the demands of the opposition groups, blocked by the PP with its absolute majority in the Galician Parliament. BNG spokesperson Ana Pontón called this “unheard of” and criticized the popular party for imposing “vetos” in order, according to her, to hinder the functioning of the commission.
The popular people thus justify their refusal to cite Feijóo: they consider that their leader has already appeared several times on the issues that will be addressed in the investigation, discrediting the nationalists who try to equate their situation with that of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whose family environment is under investigation.
The commission met in the afternoon, after a morning meeting between PP, BNG and PSdeG, convened “in extremis” by the nationalists to try to negotiate an agreement on the design of the commission which, ultimately, did not was not found. From the proposal of the PP, as is “usual” since it is the majority group, the Popular Party proposed a transaction “so that a representative of each of the companies that motivated the creation of this commission investigation can be incorporated into the work plan. “, but this was not accepted, as indicated by the spokesperson of the PP, Alberto Pazos. A “lack of desire for dialogue“which he considers “surprising” and “difficult to understand”, because it would “considerably increase the number of comparisons”. Thus, despite the votes against the BNG and the PSdeG, the proposal of the Popular Group was retained: a list of 39 candidates, among which neither Feijóo nor his entourage will be present, as the opposition claimed.
The BNG: “It’s never seen before”
For the BNG, the absence of Feijóo on the list is a “veto” imposed from Genoa, which, according to them, represents “quite a guilty plea.” “It is unheard of that they want to veto […] to the person who has the greatest responsibility in all these issues”, they criticized, also making ugly the fact that neither his sister, director of Eulen, nor the companion of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, among others, were cited “A lack of respect towards the Galicians” and an “anti-democratic and authoritarian drift”, in which the PP, assured Pontón, “imposed” its work plan on them. -he promised, will be “to the end” to discover the “15 years of shenanigans of the PP”.
An opinion to which the socialists adhere, who, admittedly, maintain a more lukewarm position. The formation of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro – who was neither at the morning negotiations nor at the afternoon meeting – has always been favorable to apply “no veto”. In the same way that they “did not question the people proposed” by the PP and the BNG, “whether or not they thought they were linked to the facts”, explained the PSdeG deputy María Elena Espinosa, the Socialists advocated maintaining all demands. appearance of the three parties.
But it is something that the people consider an “imposition,” said Pazos, who indicated that They do not accept “names”, but rather the “reasons” which justify the presence of certain people. what they have not received, he assured, until now. For its creation, he continued while addressing the BNG, this commission “is nothing other than a collection of lies that they have been repeating for 15 years” and that now, he said, they are trying to recover as a “smoke screen” to hide the “serious problem of corruption that” affects the Spanish government.
An attempt to present to the Galician Parliament, he continued, important names to “equate them with the judicial parade of plots surrounding Sánchez.” Because, he recalled, it is the president’s wife, brother and number two who are the subject of an investigation, and not those of the national leader of the PP. “Madame Ponton, He was 13 years old to question and interrogate Mr. Núñez Feijóo“He recalled, insultingly, that he was trying to transform the Chamber “into a place for a sincere program”, citing the environment of the leader of the PP and Ayuso in a kind of “Save me nationalist”.
Neither the opposition accepted the PP’s offer, nor any of the other proposals, so the approved work plan is that of the popular party, which includes, among others, the participation of Rueda, senior officials – current and elders – of Sanidade, Facenda and the Consello de Contas and of the one who was Minister of Health during the pandemic. Also present on the list are the Minister of Territorial Policy of the bipartisan party, María Xosé Caride, and the Secretary General of the Legal Department of the Xunta, Manuel Pillado.
