PP deputies Adrián Vázquez and Dolors Montserrat met at the chamber’s headquarters in Brussels with the CEO of Altri, José Soares de Pina, 48 hours after the populars blocked the Petitions Commission – of which Montserrat is vice-president – with their votes. President – an emergency debate. should take place following citizens’ complaints against the macrocellulose project that the Portuguese paper company is promoting in Palas de Rei (Lugo).
The meeting, which was not reported in the press or on social media, but which appears in the public minutes of the meetings –“Meetings”– of the two deputies, took place on October 2, two days after the popular parties stopped the initiative presented by the BNG and vetoed the intervention in front of the camera of the Ulloa Viva Platform, scheduled for the 3rd.
On September 30, nationalist MEP Ana Miranda denounced from Mexico – where she had gone with the leader of the BNG, Ana Pontón, to attend the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum – that the PP had “maneuvered” with the far right to prevent “citizens affected by macrocellulose” from being heard by the commission, as had been approved – this time urgently – a month earlier “with the agreement of four different parliamentary groups”.
After the result of the vote, Adrián Vázquez emphasized: “We must let the Xunta professionals work on a project like Altri and stop managing emergencies where there are none.” Although born in Madrid, where he developed his career, the former secretary general of Ciudadanos – signed by Feijóo after the failure of the coalition between popular and orange – is a Galician MEP, with his family origins in Lalín (Pontevedra ). Thus, he continued: “Galicia which works, grows and generates jobs is progressing in Europe. Good management always has a reward, and even more so in Europe.”
Vázquez did not spare an arrow against the nationalist MEP Ana Miranda: “The BNG says that it comes to Brussels to defend its vision of Galicia, which hardly resembles that of the majority of Galicians, and the vote on their own demands catch up with them. tourism in Mexico.
The European People’s Party frames the meeting of the CEO of Altri with Vázquez and Montserrat – who is also vice-president of the EPP parliamentary group, majority in the chamber – “within the framework of the functions of the Parliament, its parliamentary groups and its deputies » which include “meeting and listening to all sectors, whether Spanish or from any other EU country, and even from third countries”. However, when Ulloa Viva went to Brussels in April, they did not find a place to receive them, which – according to the platform itself – did the PSOE, Verdes Equo, Unidas Podemos and the BNG .
His name does not appear on Vázquez’s social networks. meeting with Soares de Pina, but the “support” that he came to provide that same October 2, at the headquarters of the European Chamber, to the advisor of Facenda de la Xunta, Miguel Corgos.
Corgos, according to Vázquez’s message, went to Brussels “to present the Galician experience in the implementation of regional funds” where the Xunta is “a reference in the execution of European funds and an example throughout the ‘Europe”. Precisely, Altri has conditioned the future of its macrocellulose, the GAMA project, to obtain 250 million euros in Union funds to move it forward. According to Facenda’s department, Corgos – who traveled to the European capital with “just” time – did not participate in the meeting between the head of the company and the two popular MEPs.
