The same PSOE that rejected the popular Loyola de Palacio And Miguel Arias Canete while the European commissioners now accuse the PP of having opposed the appointment of Therese Riberathird vice-president of the government and minister of ecological transition whose performance in the DANA crisis has been described as “negligent” by the opposition.
For example, last week, the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi Lopezaccused the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of having “in danger” the European Union with his veto of the election of Teresa Ribera as executive vice-president of Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and responsible for the Competition portfolio of the new Commission designed by Ursula von der Leyen.
The socialists also attacked the popular Spaniards for their “false patriotism” and they interpreted this veto as an attempt by Genoa to “save” the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, in a “surreal” operation.
However, it is the same PSOE that opposed in 1999 and 2014 respectively the nominations of Loyola de Palacio and Miguel Arias Cañete, both Popular Party candidates who ultimately passed the evaluations and accessed the Community Executive.
In both cases, the PP denounced that these candidates were the subject of “harassment” and “dirty game” by the PSOE. The current MEP of the PP and current deputy secretary of Institutional Action of the leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Esteban Gonzalez Ponshe recalled in 2014, in the middle of the PSOE campaign against Arias Cañete, that in 1999 the socialists “they made him bitter” and “made it impossible for him” Loyola de Palacio application.
However, the former Minister of Agriculture in the government of Jose Maria Aznar, eventually won and became the first Spanish woman to become vice president of the European Commission and Commissioner for Relations with the European Parliament, Transport and Energy. Also Arias Cañete, former Minister of Agriculture also with Aznar and with Mariano Rajoyobtained the Action Climate and Energy portfolio.
Furthermore, González Pons alluded to the fact that the then Socialist Party Rosa Díez even wrote a letter to the European Commission to demand that De Palacio, whom the socialists have linked to linen casewas not a commissioner. Díez, according to Pons, wrote this letter “with the intention of revenge” and with “bad style”inappropriate for “a politician who claims to have a big vision”.
Meanwhile, the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo is open to vote against the entire government of Ursula von der Leyen at the European Commission, she counts among her commissioners the third vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, who she is co-responsible for the management of dana.
The popular are ready to veto Ribera “until the last consequences”, according to sources from the national leadership, which thus increases the pressure on Ribera so that he does not remain a candidate for vice-president of the Commission European. In addition, the sources of Genoa They do not fear reprisals from Von der Leyen for having voted against his proposal to create a college of commissioners if Ribera is retained. “We are more concerned about living up to and conforming to the Spanish after what happened in Valencia than about the relationship with Von der Leyen,” sources say.
The president of the PP stressed this Monday, before the National Board of Directors of his party, that Ribera will not be vice-president of the European Commission with the votes of his party. “We have defended – and we will continue to do so until the end – that the one who has proven himself to be a bad minister, not only now, but especially in these moments of national emergency, He doesn’t deserve to be rewarded or promoted anywhere. And even less be named vice-president of all Europeans. Of course, not with us,” Feijóo stressed about the votes of the Spanish PP.
“Sánchez – he continued – is angry for this matter. She is unhappy that Europe forced her minister to appear before the Spanish Parliament 20 days after the tragedy. “It was Europe that forced him to appear before the Cortes Generales to answer his responsibilities before the Spanish people,” added the PP leader.
“Sánchez realized that, above the interests of Spain, for me there is neither Sánchez nor anyone else. There is no commitment from the Spanish PP over Spain. There is none, neither now nor there will be,” Feijóo said.
The PSOE and Meloni’s candidate
In addition, the president of the PP mentioned the fact that the socialists even proposed their vote in favor of the Italian. Raffaele Fittocandidate of Georgia Meloni included by Von der Leyen in his proposal for commissioners, provided that Ribera is elected.
“Do you remember the red lines of the so-called extreme right? Well, look, the proposal of the PSOE in Europe is now to agree with what they call the European far right. You see that the grandiloquence and the sanitary cordons last as long as it takes for the PSOE to we need far-right commissioners in exchange for the vote for the commissioner candidate Teresa Ribera”, Feijóo told his PP colleagues this Monday, during the party’s National Administration Commission held in Madrid.
The PP has bet a lot on Ribera’s submission to a secret vote in the European Parliament committees after his appearance in Congress this Wednesday. In these commissions, the Spanish PP will vote against the minister, who would need a simple majority. And during the subsequent vote of the College of Commissioners by the plenary of the European Chamber, planned in principle for November 27the PP is ready to vote against if Ribera remains in the running. Here, Von der Leyen’s proposal to form his community executive would also require a simple majority.
