Privately, PP leaders criticize the government and wonder what they did, who they ate with and what decisions Pedro Sánchez and Teresa Ribera “did not make”. But in public, they only ask to appear before Congress.
Which they won’t do. The president goes to climate summit from Baku (Azerbaijan) and the vice-president goes to Brussels, to pass (or not) her exam as first vice-president of the European Commission and competition commissioner.
Borja Semper assessed the second package of measures approved in the extraordinary Council of Ministers and presented by Pedro Sanchez. The spokesperson for the PP appeared a few minutes after the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazonpublicly assumed “errors” in the management of the DANA crisis, and announced a “strengthening” of its Advice starting next Thursday.
But the spokesperson said nothing about this. In fact, the popular press conference could be described as an appearance to ensure no one talks about it.
Which explains two things: on the one hand, its support for the second decree approved by the Government this Monday, “for which we proposed 13 improvement measures this morning.” And second, the absence of explicit attacks against Sánchez and Ribera.
From the president, it escapes that “it would be necessary give explanations to Congress as Carlos Mazón will do this Thursday in the Valencian Parliament, on his own initiative. » And we ask the same thing of the third vice-president “after 15 days of clandestinity”, but we avoid holding her directly responsible for the DANA disaster, even if AEMET and the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar depend on it..
The underlying strategy
And of course, beyond believing (or not) in the noble objective of the party president, the underlying strategy aims to protect your Valencian baron. And Borja Sémper revealed this rabbit in the hat when asked if the PP leadership supported not Mazón after the floods, but his performance on October 29, maintaining his agenda until a long after-dinner session .
“For the same reason that we do not ask Ribera to assume political responsibilities, we won’t do it either with the president of the Valencian Community”, responded the spokesperson for the PP Steering Committee.
“We will do the analysis in due time, because what we need to do now is to lend a hand and not further poison the political debate,” he insisted. “Let citizens understand that The only priority is the people and businesses who lost everything in this disaster.“.
There is another indication that The popular people play history as much as the government. But perhaps with less efficiency.
Sémper celebrated that “Mazón will appear this Thursday before the Valencian Courts: He already put his body and now he puts his face“, he expressed with satisfaction as a colleague. “And he will do it because he wanted to account for his management and the measures he is going to take in the future… We would have liked Sánchez to do it in Congress“We note with sadness that he will not do so.”
In other words, I am not attacking the president head-on, but I compare it with mineleaving him sick. I am not calling for the resignation of the vice president, but I slip that he has been in his business we must address the European Commission and not everyone, who managed “the greatest natural tragedy we can remember”.
unanswered questions
The national PP refuses to anticipate what Mazón should say or do this Thursday. All he has to do is “show his face”. And he refuses so much to criticize him in public -Sémper left this question unanswered, become annoyed by the insistence of journalists– as in private – “the PP gives its full support to the Valencian president”, affirms a leading source.
Throughout the week, the consequences of DANA, human and political, will overshadow the Government’s legal ordeal this week. From the Supreme Court to the ordinary courts of Madrid and Badajoz, through the National Court and “closer to Sánchez, his executive, his party and his personal environment”.
Because the pressure is on Mazón, who will appear in the Parliament of the Valencian Community on Thursday answer very specific questionswhich the public story has focused on in recent weeks.
Where were you until 6:30 p.m.? Why didn’t you launch before the mobile alert? What reasons do you give for not having requested the declaration of National emergency that even requires Feijóo, its leader? And many more.
Meanwhile, Sánchez will be in Azerbaijan and Ribera will have gone to Brussels, and None of them will participate in the government monitoring session.
But the PP does not respond either, as if it had no opinion. And he offers his votes in favor of the decrees… although it remains to be seen whether he will also vote in favor of Ribera in Brussels this Tuesday. But It would be a declaration of total war..
