Sit down with the People’s Party, Félix Bolaños ended the series of meetings with the different parliamentary groups. Miguel Tellado and Juan Bravo were the only ones to personally attend the Moncloa. Moreover, the Minister of the Presidency spoke this morning by telephone or videoconference. With everyone, except Vox which rejected the Executive’s invitation.
One by one, Bolaños communicated the second decree-law with new immediate response measures for those affected by DANA. A package which will be approved this Monday in the extraordinary Council of Ministers. And this will be in addition to the aid that the government has already approved this week worth 10.6 billion euros.
This is how Bolaños communicated it through his X account at the end of the last meeting he held this Sunday to communicate the new aid: “I have completed the series of contacts with all the political groups of the Congress The last one was with the PP. I thank all groups for their solidarity with those affected by DANA and the proposals that were sent to us to continue to help them.
In the morning, according to the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Bolanos He met Patxi López, of the PSOE; with Txema Guijarro, Águeda Micó and Toni Moreno, from Sumar; with Gabriel Rufián, from ERC; with Miriam Nogueras, from Junts; Mertxe Aizpurúa, from Bildu; and Néstor Rego, of BNG. He also had a meeting with Cristina Válido, of the Canarian Coalition; with Alberto Catalán, of UPN; with Aitor Esteban, for the PNV, and with Ione Belarra, from Podemos.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez, assured that the current priority was “extract the mud as well as the goods and waste found in the affected areas”. This is where the Government is currently focusing its efforts, according to the Minister of Territorial Policy following the crisis committee this morning. On the other hand, he avoided engaging in controversies over resignations and appealed to the need to work together.
“It is necessary and essential that we have the maximum will and that we make it public to collaborate and work hand in hand with those of us who have management responsibilities and the work of others and the different parliamentary groups” , Torres said. The minister also announced that this Monday The national 330 bypass will be open, the A7 bypass will open on Wednesday and broadband will be restored on Thursday.
