The leader of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóoasked the government this Wednesday to convene an extraordinary Council of Ministers and declare national mourning faced with the drama caused by DANA this devastated part of the country and caused more than 50 deaths in the Valencian Community and several missing people and even one death also in Castile-La Mancha.
Due to the storm, the Congress unanimously decided to suspend the government control session and urgent interpellations, although it maintained the plenary session on the process of renewing the RTVE Council.
During an appearance before Congress, the popular leader described “negligible” and of “moral turpitude” that he PSOE suspended the monitoring session but maintains the Complete validate the RTVE Council renewal process. Feijóo announced that his deputies would not participate in the session, which only targets “the attempt to control public media.”
“We cannot register for the hypocrisy to suspend the ordinary plenary session and to automatically convene, without any scruple, an extraordinary plenary session with the only point on the agenda, the control of RTVE”, he added.
Feijóo said that the PP does not understand the “selective respect for victims” with this way of proceeding by the government and described its attitude as “negligible”. “I knew that this government was capable of anything, but I also do not hide from you that my capacity for surprise no longer has limits. I deeply regret it. I apologize on behalf of politicians and politics, but not like that. It can’t be done like that”, finished.
For the leader of the opposition, the only political priority at the moment is to thank the people who are trying to save lives and to accompany those affected in mourning.
Vox joined the PP’s criticisms. Its parliamentary spokesperson, Pepa Millán, announced that its deputies would not attend the RTVE plenary session either, while criticizing the “indignity” of the government for maintaining the session.
For Millán, Sánchez’s partners and the president of the Lower House, Francina Armengol, are the protagonists of an “absolutely Dantesque spectacle in the middle of a misfortune of this scale”, reason why his party is “in absolute stupor » and feels “shame”. ” in the face of this “indignity”.
No plenary session in the Senate
Despite requests for suspension, the plenary session on RTVE at the Congress finally took place. The Senate, however, suspended the plenary session which was being held as well as all parliamentary activity for the week.
This was unanimously agreed by all parties within the Spokespersons Council.
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“I regret transmitting this information, particularly because of the drama behind it,” declared the President of the Senate. Pedro Rollanbefore the Plenary after the College of Spokespersons, thanking at the same time “the excessive human effort that the security and emergency forces, municipal agents and authorities are facing and will have to face in the coming days”.
The suspension of parliamentary activity in the Upper House affects the committee of Koldo affairwho was going to meet this afternoon with the appearance of a former director of Red.es, as well as the Commission for International Development Cooperation and Commission on Transport and Sustainable Mobility scheduled for this Thursday.
