PSOE and PP continue to throw corruption cases to the head, and if the PSOE has a special interest in talking about the messages that were exchanged by the former number two of the Interior with Mariano Rajoy in Moncloa, implicated in the Operation Kitchen, with the president of the National Court, the president of the PP counterattacks and denounces “a tip-off” to the Government, in the Mediator case, which allowed the Socialists to dismiss the PSOE deputy involved, Juan Bernardo Fuentes, known in the plot as Tito Berni.
In statements in Congress, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, when asked about this exchange of messages, stressed that the PP “is always in favor of investigations and that the problems are known”, and for this reason, he stressed, “we It is very surprising that the Government is against investigating in the Congress of Deputies what happens in the Congress of Deputies”.
But also, he added, “we are very surprised that the Government knows before the others and that it has a tip that makes it easier for it to dismiss a deputy from the PSOE, the general director of Sports of the Canarian government, or the director of the Cabildo de Tenerife. It is It is very surprising that these dismissals take place 48 hours before knowing exactly a set of lamentable corruptions that the government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife, and the Socialist Group have had to do with”.
For this reason, the popular leader affirmed, in the corridors of Congress, that he would like the investigation commission that the PP has requested to be approved unanimously by all the groups to “restore dignity” to Congress, which now “is set in question”. “If Congress wants to maintain the legitimacy to request investigative commissions for others, it must agree to investigate itself when it has a reputational problem like the Socialist Parliamentary Group has,” he said.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo attended Congress this Friday to inaugurate a conference on the agri-food sector with representatives of the food industry, in an attempt to give an image that contrasts his political action with the activity of the dismissed PSOE deputy, who according to the judicial investigation in During the course he met in the offices of the Lower House with businessmen from whom he later asked for commissions, which in some cases were collected in the form of parties where prostitutes and drugs abounded.
The conferences organized by the PP in Congress had the dual purpose of defending the “Spanish food” sector from “Government attacks” and opposing the image of a PP that works with society and the affected sectors in search of solutions, while that others, the Government, are dedicated to “disparage”, when not “insulting” basic sectors of the Spanish productive system, after the attacks by the part of the Government that represents United We Can, which accuses the sector itself of raising prices .
The importance of these conferences is demonstrated by the fact that it was the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who inaugurated the work sessions, which are held in Congress, and which are held in a public act, to send the message that the PP has nothing to hide and that it meets with everyone, to listen to them, not to discredit them, and to justify their positions.
“At a time when Congress is newsworthy for less edifying activities, for us to meet here today to talk about citizens, their problems, and food and meat producers, the problems of the sector, is a good approach. to start a new stage where efforts are dedicated to talking about the problems of the citizens, and not to deceive the citizens”, said Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the opening of the conference.
What’s more, the president of the PP stressed that within his party “there is no internal division”, as is the case in the Government, he failed to say, and what the popular want is to “legislate with the sectors” and not “with their backs”, at the same time that he stressed that for the PP “the permanent crisis or the discussion about the honor of deputies of this House, nor of the senators, is not good, nor is it good to see certain embarrassing practices that we have seen during the state of exception in our country, a state of exception decreed by this House and that affected all citizens”, he stated in reference to the supposed party in which the former Socialist deputy participated in a state of alarm, which forced him to sleep in a brothel, not being able to go out due to the curfew. Feijóo concluded that “a government with an institutional and economic crisis should have exemplary behavior.”
In this framework, and in opposition to the Government, the popular leader explained to the representatives of the agri-food sector, from cooperatives to Asaja, that the PP wants to listen to them, and not “insult, belittle or disqualify”, as the Government has done by calling them ” looters, speculators or ruthless capitalists”, something for which he apologized, although he was not the one who used those descriptions, but he does, he said, because “the majority of society does not share those insults”.
The popular leader also referred to the government’s criticism of Ferrovial for having changed its headquarters to the Netherlands. In statements in Congress, Feijóo described the announcement as “very bad news” and therefore expressed his “personal disgust”, but stressed that “instead of insulting companies, the Government should sit down to see what we have to do so that they trust and stay in Spain”. “Insults and personal accusations -he said- are never positive and produce negative effects”.
For this reason, the president of the PP affirmed that if he were president of the Government, what he would do would be “call the company to find out what it is that they earn by leaving and assess the possibility of earning the same by staying, with the possibility of listing in several stock markets and other issues”.
On this issue, as in the agri-food sector, Feijóo believes that the Government. The PP, which declared itself against the intervention of food prices, as requested by Yolanda Díaz, proposes postponing the plastic tax that came into force recently and has meant that the drop in VAT has not been noticed. He also proposes subsidizing feed, reducing energy costs in the agri-food sector, and reducing VAT on meat, fish and preserves. To this I would add the deflation of the personal income tax rate for incomes of less than 40,000 euros, and extend the subsidy of 20 cents to gasoline to the self-employed.