The Third Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has warned this Thursday that she will not appear in the Andalusian Parliament after being summoned to do so, at the request of PP-A and Vox, in relation to the bill that both groups promote to regulate irrigated areas in the Condado de Huelva region, while suggesting that experts linked to the Doñana National Park, such as the president of the Council of Participation of Doñana, Miguel Delibes de Castro, or the director of the Doñana Biological Station, Eloy Revilla. “I’m sure they learn more,” she commented.
Neither of these two names appears on the list of 23 appearing parties that the Commission for Development, Articulation of the Territory and Housing of the Parliament approved this past Wednesday with the votes of PP-A and Vox to give their opinion on said bill within the framework of its parliamentary processing, and among those that does include that of Teresa Ribera.
The Minister for the Ecological Transition was already summoned in the last legislature to appear in Parliament during the processing of a similar bill promoted by the same two groups plus that of Ciudadanos, and already then she also warned that she would not appear based on “opinions of the Council of State, which establish that ministers are not obliged to appear before autonomous assemblies”.
Through a note on her Twitter account published this Thursday, Teresa Ribera thanked “the invitation” from PP and Vox to appear in said parliamentary commission, after which she commented that “what I think, what worries me and what must be done to defend the Andalusians, Spanish strawberries and Doñana know it”.
“The ministers do not appear in regional parliaments,” adds the third vice president before concluding her comment, indicating that she gives up her “ten minutes” of appearance “to Delibes or Eloy Revilla.” “Surely they learn more,” Teresa Ribera concludes her publication.
“Here they make clear what matters is the opinion of those who know the park and its ecosystems well. Neither Delibes nor the Doñana Biological Station,” Teresa Ribera commented this Wednesday in another comment on the same social network in which she added that “it is good to try defend legal irrigators throughout Spain in the face of the reputational crisis that they have opened”, but he concluded in this regard that “the only convincing thing” is “to rule out the threat”.
The president of the Doñana Participation Council, Miguel Delibes, has considered “a lack of respect” that “he is excluded” from the list of those appearing on the regulation of irrigation in the municipalities north of the Doñana Forest Crown.
In an audio sent to the media, Delibes has assured that he is “saddened” that the president of the Participation Council “is excluded” from the appearances, but “not so much because of me, since my opinion is well known, but because of what that transmits”.
In addition, the president of the Participation Council has said that it sounds like “an attempt to minimize dissenting voices, which refutes the repeated assertions that the bill was going to be debated in depth with the participation of all social agents.”
The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has also ruled on the exclusion of experts from the commission on the irrigation law, which he considers proof of the “denial” of the Popular Party.
“A Spain that takes care of Doñana or a Spain that devastates Doñana,” Sánchez stated on his official Twitter profile, echoing the news about the appearances in said commission. “A Spain that defends its natural heritage or that destroys it through denial. A Better Spainâ€, stressed the head of the Executive.
