The PP has charged against what it considers to be a “blackmail” of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchezwho has conditioned other future aid to the victims of the DANA to the support of the parliamentary groups to his Budgets. The majority opposition group has advanced that it will support all measures aimed at helping those affected as long as they are outside the budget debate: “We are not going to approve Sanchez a General State Budget that he has not even presented. And even less using the victims in a blackmail for his own interest”, have valued from Genoa, after Sánchez launched an immediate aid plan of 10,600 million.
“Our votes will be for the victims to receive sufficient aid to move forward and rebuild the productive sectors of the affected areas,” say the same sources, who in any case avoid assessing the specific measures announced by Sanchez. On the contrary, they have focused on the ways with which the PSOE tries to “use” the victims of the DANA for their “interest” to get the PGE. “It is a sufficiently serious and urgent matter to submit it to the usual interested maneuvers of Sanchez,” insist from the party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
In this way, the PP considers that Sánchez has come out to to make politics in the middle of a tragedy The consequences of the DANA, which, for the moment, has claimed more than two hundred victims and has left countless people missing, in addition to the considerable material losses, from homes and vehicles to businesses. “May Sanchez’s priorities in this tragedy be. controlling TVE, taking out motions of censure or securing Budgets. The “blackmailing” is a way of qualifying itself”, say the Popular Party on the same day they left the plenary session to renew the public broadcaster in protest.
All this comes just a day after supposedly both PSOE and PP assumed that the citizenship demanded political height and to abandon the political clash. Hours later, both parties have returned to throw the responsibility for the management of the DANA, which from the beginning has been assumed by the Generalitat Valenciana and since a few days ago, with the collaboration of the central government. However, the leader of the PP demanded this Monday that Sanchez declare a national emergency and assume control of the management. A request that has been rejected this morning by the president himself. “Entering into a situation of substitution of the territorial administration as important as the Generalitat Valenciana would be. to reduce the effectiveness of the action and the response of the public authorities”, Sanchez argued.
In view of this, the PP insists on placing the responsibility for the management of the DANA on the central government. Therefore, the opposition has registered both in the Congress and in the Senate the appearance of the Third Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Riberaand the Ministers of the Interior and Defense, Fernando Grande-Marlaska y Margarita Robles respectively, for their management of the DANA.
Ribera is required to report on her management and all the measures and actions she has implemented in relation to adaptation to climate change and, in particular, flood prevention and report on what infrastructures have been put in place to protect the population. in the event of future events.
Marlaska has been asked to give an account of the operational plans for the deployment of the different units of the State Security Forces and Corps in those municipalities and areas seriously affected, as well as the resources and protocols of the National Civil Protection System that have been activated and the need to review and improve them. And Robles is demanded to explain the participation of the UME and the Armed Forces. in the municipalities and areas affected.