The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezand his Minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Therese Riberawill not attend the control session of the Congress of Deputies next week to give explanations on the errors made by the Executive in the management of DANA, which leaves at least 219 dead so far. This is what the PP denounced in the Lower House after the meeting of the Council of Spokespersons.
In statements to the press, the spokesperson for the Groupe Populaire, Miguel Telladocriticized the fact that the socialist president of the government and his ministers are in a situation “permanent escape strategy”. Thus, he responded to the fact that the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos MazonYes, he will appear next week the Valencian CortesHowever, neither Sánchez nor Teresa Ribera, on whom the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ)they will show their faces in Parliament. It should be remembered that Aemet underestimated the storm and that the CHJ informed the Generalitat emergencies late and by email. overflow of Barranco del Poyowhich was decisive in the scale of the tragedy.
In the case of Sánchez, his absence from the government control session scheduled for next Wednesday, November 13 is due to his participation in the celebration of Climate Summit in Azerbaijanaccording to what the Secretary of State in charge of Relations with the Cortes explained behind closed doors this Thursday, the socialist Rafael Simancasaccording to parliamentary sources.
For her part, Teresa Ribera had the day before, Tuesday November 12at 6:30 p.m. examination in the European Parliament as a candidate for the position of Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a clean, fair and competitive transition and responsible competition. However, at its end, I could use the FalconAir Force plane used by the ministers, to return immediately to Spain and be able to participate in the control session of Congress scheduled for the next day at 9 a.m.
In this context, Tellado accused the government of Pedro Sánchez of acting in “bad faith” towards DANA, because, according to him, “it could declare a state of national emergency and got involved from the first moment and he didn’t do it”. At the same time, he criticized the fact that the head of the Executive does not appear next week at the plenary session of the Lower House to offer explanations to citizens after the disaster and plans to participate in a “climate summit” .
“What paradoxes. The truth is that Pedro Sánchez should suspend his participation in this climate summit and should be present at next week’s plenary session to explain What the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation has done or not donewho reports to the third vice-president of the Spanish government”, underlined Tellado.
The spokesperson for the Popular Group denounced that the third vice-president and is “the great one who disappeared” in this crisis, criticizing that he is once again absent from the plenary session of Congress when he is “directly responsible” for policies aimed at preventing these floods.
“Ms. Ribera not only. it’s quiet since DANAbut will once again be absent from the plenary session of Congress next week. I think it is unacceptable that after the worst floods in Spain since this century“, the person directly responsible for prevention policies, escapes responsibility before the Cortes Generales,” Tellado said.
“Personal ambitions”
In this sense, the parliamentary spokesperson of the PP declared that the “political and personal ambitions” of Teresa Ribera, who must submit next Tuesday audience be a commissioner of the community executive of Ursula Von der Leyen“they can’t be above the tthe transparency it owes to citizens affected, requiring urgent responses. Tellado accused Sánchez and Teresa Ribera of “running away from an issue of the utmost importance that resulted in the loss of human lives“.
In place of the tenant of Moncloa and his minister Green, The government wanted him to be Minister of Territorial Policy and former head of government of the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torreswho will appear on Wednesday, November 13, in the plenary session of Congress to report on the consequences of the DANA that devastated Valencia and other provinces last week.
