The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, has announced today the presentation of allegations to the exploitation rules of the Tajo-Segura transfer “for the first time and in a joint, coordinated and rigorous manner” of the Valencian Community, Region of Murcia , Andalusia and Community of Madrid.
He has advanced it in the event celebrating the 45th anniversary of the implementation of the transfer, in which he has participated together with the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and the president of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct (SCRATS), Lucas Jiménez.
Mazón has described this alliance “as a historic step” and has pointed out that in it “more than 23 million Spaniards are represented in joint work for a national water policy.”
The president and leader of the Valencian PP believes that this common front is “in favor of rigor and objectivity and against the political criteria” that have generated “unjustified cuts to the Tajo-Segura transfer for not having technical exploitation rules.” and serious.”
The president of the Central Union of Irrigators of the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct, Lucas Jiménez, has accused the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, of opening a campaign and bullying the Ministry for the Ecological Transition to approve the modification of the rules exploitation at your convenience.
“From there, the entire chorus of angels and archangels takes to the streets to urgently request the modification of the exploitation rules that should have been in place in February, but which the Ministry says will not be in place before October. This has us very worried. Something has escaped us. Castilla-La Mancha knows something that we don’t know,” Lucas warned.
For his part, Mazón has denounced the existence of “no less than 26 or 27 unjustified cuts that we have suffered for not having rigorous, fair, technical and serious exploitation rules, and for having too much room for the political whim of the really now at this moment she is going to be number one of none other than the socialist party in the European elections”, alluding to Teresa Ribera.
The head of the Valencian Consell has criticized that the minister has not listened to the affected autonomies at a “key moment for Spain”, and has asked that the central government “abandon politics, ideology or sectarianism once and for all and to work with rigor, with engineers, with data, with adequate justifications” on this issue.
In his speech, the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, criticized those who try to make people believe that the transfers “are from the right and the desalination from the left, and that is not the case”, and he regretted that the central Executive, which is obliged to manage water policies, look the other way and do not address a National Water Plan.
