The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded this Wednesday that Pedro Sánchez present a new candidate for vice-president of the European Commission, after blocking this week the government’s first option, Teresa Ribera. At the same time, sources within the party leadership were opting these days for another socialist minister, Luis Planasto occupy the position.
Questioned several times on this question, Feijóo did not want to deny this information, but he still slipped in a clue: “At the time sanchist“If I support a candidate, it will most likely harm him,” the opposition leader said without further details.
“The European Commission must be free from all suspicion“Otherwise, they will not be able to exercise moral authority among the countries of the Union,” he told the Congressional office. Concerning Ribera, the former president of the Xunta believes that the Spanish government is looking for “a hiding place”. ” for him in Europe to evade “his responsibilities” at the head of the management of DANA in Valencia.
This Tuesday, the popular They realized what they said a few days ago was “absolutely impossible” and blocked the process of acceptance in the European Parliament of Ribera as executive vice-president of the European Commission. At least for a week, for now. And they achieved this, moreover, thanks to a common conspiracy of the entire European PP, maneuvered from Madrid by Feijóo.
The argument, beyond the weakening of the Sánchez government in a period of weakness, is that the PP maintains that Teresa Ribera was the maximum responsible of the DANA disaster in the Valencian Community two weeks ago and this, therefore, “should not be granted”.
This story is supported by the fact that his ministry, Ecological Transition, is the one on which the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) like the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ), which were the two bodies responsible for providing data to the autonomous community. If this data was not correct or arrived late, it is logical that the management of the Generalitat would not be as efficient as it could have been.
Montero responds
The First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, responded this afternoon to Feijóo’s statement, accusing him of lying “when he says that [Ribera] failed an exam” and for having overstepped his partisan interests for Europe, causing “a situation which harms the European Union as a whole.
“He is not just trying to destabilize the institutions in Spain, trying to lie in domestic politics, but he has raised the tone of the European institutions, giving instability to the European government itself,” he said. declared Montero in the corridors of Congress. deputies.
For her, this is an “unprecedented, absolutely regrettable fact” and she asked Feijóo to “reconsider”. “Europe must be united and strong and has no right to try to contaminate European institutions with Spain’s policies,” he added.
