Galician MPs from the PPdeG fear that the task of achieve the transfer of powers and ownership of the AP-9 motorway could last forever in its current phase, that of the presentation of amendments, due to “boycotts” such as those that, they denounced, the last legislature carried out “by the PSOE and its government partners”, in reference to Sumar and Podemos, who then expanded the stadium “up to fifteen times”. After placing progress in this process as one of the “priorities” that their group will have in the recently launched political course, they asked the Congress Council That this month, in September, the deadline for providing responses expires.
Popular deputy Celso Delgado appeared before the media this Wednesday to announce that he and his two Galician counterparts, Tristana Moraleja and Pedro Puy, are taking firm steps in the transfer to Galicia of the ownership and powers of the AP-9 will be a main objective in the next convocations to Congress. Starting with ensuring that the cogs of his organic law proposal are in motion: “What we want to avoid is what happened in the last legislature, in which Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, with their parliamentary groups, They boycotted the treatment (…) with actions such as extending the deadline up to 15 times for the presentation of amendments”, the same one that is open again, Delgado stressed.
It is in this perspective, he continued, and “after the bill has been taken into consideration” by Congress, after its approval in Parliament on June 18 – in its fourth legislative attempt -, His group is calling for the initiative to be “activated” and “that the deadline for submitting amendments be closed as soon as possible, in order to begin discussing the opinion in the Committee on Transport and Sustainable Mobility, which is responsible for processing it.” The issue will be debated in a presentation given by the three Galician MEPs.
The Popular Party regrets that the legislative initiative has seen its processing process resume in Congress “after having accumulated up to fifteen extensions agreed by the representatives of the PSOE and Podemos in the last legislature.” A series of obstacles that the popular classes describe as “surprising,” while these groups “they blocked a text literally identical to that approved unanimously in the Galician Parliament. “It was the boycott position of the socialists during the last legislature that prevented the Cortes from approving the organic bill that would make the transfer of the AP-9 to Galicia effective,” they said in a statement.
The Government, sanitized
Precisely the day before, the spokesman for the executive of the PSdeG, Julio Torrado, had declared to journalists that the position of the State, which is committed to keeping the management of the highway in private hands – instead of saving it or entrusting it to public tender – , corresponds to a “technical” position of the state bar does not meet the “political” criteria, as the Ministry of Transport explained to the European Commission in a letter sent recently, defending the avoidance of the rescue because of the damage that the compensation of the winning company would cause to the public coffers.
For Torrado, the “debate” around the management of AP-9 is divided between ownership of the infrastructure and the absence of cost for its use, and the Galician socialists consider the second priority, reports Ep. “It is more important that the barriers are lifted than that the asphalt sings the anthem,” the spokesman quipped; As he said, the transfer of ownership “is important,” but “the reality” is that “in this debate” what is “really important are the free tolls.”
