If Alberto Núñez Feijóo always remembers that he comes from rural areas, he does so even more so if there are elections, and especially if they are in Galicia. But if Galician, Spanish and European farmers and ranchers are also in struggle, the president of the PP stands as the standard bearer of the struggle of Spanish and European farmers, and demands that the conditions that Spanish farmers have to meet are the same as those those of third countries that export their products to the European Union have to comply.
From a livestock farm in Lalin (Pontevedra), the president of the PP, who is still campaigning in Galicia, and will hold six events this Monday, since the candidate, Alfonso Rueda, is dedicated to preparing for the debate that will take place tonight, Feijóo also asked that the Government compensate those affected by the losses caused by the trucks that French farmers overturned, and that he ask the former French minister Segolen Royal, who said that Spanish tomatoes were inedible, to rectify and apologize.
The president of the PP denounced “the negligence of the Government” with the countryside and with the problems of farmers and ranchers, which has been reflected in his refusal to lower the VAT on meat, fish and preserves, in addition to “permanent haggling “and an absence of investments in irrigation.”
For this reason, he announced that the PP is preparing a “shock plan” in favor of farmers and ranchers, which is being prepared with the agricultural councilors of the different autonomous communities governed by the PP, and which Feijóo himself will take to the debates of the European People’s Congress to be held in March in Bucharest.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo stressed that the Government “has little time to deal with the problems of farmers” because a “multi-party” government, such as the central Government, “does not have time for the problems of the people, because it has to dedicate spend most of their time fixing their internal problems. This is what would happen in Galicia, he said, if the PP does not win and obtains the absolute majority, because it is the only one that guarantees “a solid and free government that takes care of the real problems of the citizens.”
In its shock plan, the PP will commit to “proving that agriculture and livestock are strategic sectors” and the rural sector “is key in environmental policy, which, it said, “cannot be designed by looking out a window in Castellana and without knowing the rural environment” which is what in his opinion the Government does. “We have an urban Government that does not know the sector
agrarian”.
The PP is in favor, as Spanish and European farmers and ranchers demand, of “making the CAP more flexible and reducing the bureaucracy suffered by the sector”, while at the same time asking for more sensitivity and direct dialogue with farmers and ranchers, and for them to be ask for the same regulations as those from third countries. The shock plan that the PP will present includes a “National Water Pact or a fiscal policy to reduce taxes in the agricultural field.”
