The head of PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóoaccused the head of the Executive on Tuesday, Pedro Sanchezto “colonize” the Bank of Spain when choosing the minister Jose Luis Escrivá as governor, as reported by OKDIARIO this morning. According to Feijóo, “you cannot go from the ministry to the management” of this institution. The first opposition party considers that the negotiations with the government are “broken” and will not propose the position of vice-governor of the Bank of Spain
Although it is an unwritten pact, it is common for the renewal of the positions of governor and vice-governor of the Bank of Spain to be agreed between the PSOE and the PP, so that the ruling party appoints the governor and the opposition party proposes the vice-governor.
But from Genoa they consider the negotiation with the PSOE – led by its general secretary on behalf of the PP – to be “broken”. Cuca Gamarra– claiming that they will not participate in this “marketing”, as indicated by the sources consulted, which will force the Executive to also elect a new vice-governor to replace Marguerite Delgadowhose term ends on September 11 and who until now assumed the powers of governor.
This position will be occupied by a woman to maintain the current parity. In recent days, the name of Soledad Nunezformer Director General of the Treasury of the government of ShoemakerThe other candidates are the vice-president of the CNMV, Montserrat Martinezand the Secretary General of the Treasury, Paula Conthe.
This morning, before Escrivá’s appointment was confirmed, Feijóo had already warned the head of the Executive that proposing the minister meant “controlling and invading” the Bank of Spain, given that it does not offer “guarantees of independence”. “Do not count on us in this new invasion of the Bank of Spain,” he said during an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press.
A criticism he reiterated a few hours later after learning that the Minister of the Economy, Carlos’s bodywill appear in the Congress this Wednesday to announce that they will propose the Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service as the new governor of the Bank of Spain, replacing Pablo Hernandez de Cos.
Feijóo congratulated Isabelle Perello as the new president of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), “the first woman to chair this body and the first time she has been elected without party imposition,” which she said is “a double reason for celebration.” “I wish you every success in continuing to advance in the depoliticization of justice,” he said.
However, he regretted that the same path was not applied to the Bank of Spain. “The PP imposed the regeneration on the CGPJ and today it has an independent configuration and presidency. Where only Sánchez decided, there is a new colonized institution. “You cannot go from the ministry to the management of the Bank of Spain,” he said in a message on his account on the social network ‘X’.
“No to changing stickers”
Also spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Miguel Telladoexpressed his rejection of the candidacy of Minister Escriva for the post of governor of the Bank of Spain and stressed that this institution “needs an independent person at its head.”
Tellado assured that the PP finds it “extremely regrettable that the president of the government thinks that a person can wake up in the morning as a minister of the government of Spain and in the afternoon be governor of the Bank of Spain.”
Asked specifically whether, given this commitment by the Government, he would be willing to propose a vice-governor, Tellado made it clear that the PP “is not willing to change its card” and defended independent profiles in this institution.
According to him, Escrivá does not meet this demand for independence and, with his appointment, the government “confirms once again the unequivocal will to colonize all the institutions of the State and put them at the service, not of the government, but of the personal interests of a man called Pedro Sánchez.
