Bendodo says that he must also clear up doubts about European funds and Valerio’s appointment to the Council of State
MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has summoned the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, to explain this Tuesday in the Senate if he agreed with the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, not to apply 25% of Spanish in the classrooms. In his opinion, on this matter “an urgent explanation is urgently needed” to make it clear that they did not agree on “disobeying justice and prevaricating jointly.”
This is how Bendodo pronounced himself, at a press conference at the PP headquarters, after the meeting of the party’s steering committee, after Aragonés affirmed in an interview that there is an agreement with the central government that implies that they do not “challenge” the law of Catalan at school, that is to say that the Executive does not resort to it before the TC.
Bendodo has indicated that Sánchez has a “magnificent opportunity” in his appearance in the Upper House to “shed light” on this matter because it is “another past red line, another shame.” “The Government must explain now, and it is late, if there was or not that stretcher table agreement with the Catalan independence movement so as not to apply the sentence of a court,” he added.
In his opinion, if that is the case, it would show that the chief executive and the president of the Generalitat “have met to agree to prevaricate” and “not comply with a sentence.” “How far are we going to go?” He asked himself, adding that their “survival pact” consists of keeping each other in their governments.
Bendodo has insisted that what Aragonés has verbalized is “very serious” because it means agreeing to “break the law, a sentence.” “How far do you have to go to stay screwed to the Moncloa chair?” He asked himself, to warn that “not serving a sentence and knowingly making unfair decisions in the Penal Code is called disobedience and prevarication.”
The ‘number three’ of the PP has indicated that his party wants that in that appearance in the Senate the head of the Executive also reports on the management of European funds because, as he has said, the Court of Auditors of the EU “has taken the colors to Spain” for being “the worst country of the 27 Member States in the execution” of these funds.
In the same way, he has indicated that Fedea has also warned that this real execution is “much lower than that of the official government figures.” “There are many notices already,” warned the ‘popular’ leader in his appearance.
In this sense, he criticized the fact that the Government, unlike what has happened in other countries, Spain has not put in place “any type of external and independent control of European funds”, given that the Government “only controls itself with an interministerial commission”.
Bendodo has also pointed out that the Government “has skipped the regulation of the recovery mechanism, which urges in articles 18 and 28 to contradict local and regional authorities and civil society in the planning and execution of these funds.”
For all these reasons, he stressed that an “explanation is urgently needed in the plenary session of the Senate to” clear all the shadows of doubt that exist about the European funds” and clarify their execution, given that, in his opinion, the Government ” strives to make up the figures”.
Apart from the “survival pact revealed by Aragonés to not comply with a sentence” and the “poor budgetary execution of the funds”, the general coordinator of the PP has also asked the head of the Executive to offer clarifications on the appointment of Magdalena Valerio as the new president of the Council of State.
“With all due respect to Mrs. Valerio, what body do you represent to obtain the authority and respect of the lawyers of the Council of State?”, he asked, to add that there is not a week that they do not have a “new chapter of the assault” by Sánchez on the institutions.
Bendodo has pointed out that Sánchez’s appointments are “dedazos” and “authoritarian tics that occur when one believes that the farmhouse is theirs and one believes that they can do whatever they want.” In his view, democracy is “a much more serious and noble issue”, so the President of the Government should have “dignity and stature”.
In this sense, he stressed that specialization would be “recommended” in these types of places, in the same way that it would be if a call was made prior to the first opposition party, as he lamented.
When asked if he expects the tone to be modulated in the Senate debate, given that the Government and the PP are negotiating the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Bendodo has indicated that in the parliamentary duel a month ago they saw that Sánchez dedicated ” almost the two hours of his speech to insult Feijóo”, something that he has branded as “unprecedented”.
After assuring that this attitude was a “mistake” on the part of Sánchez, he pointed out that now he has “a great opportunity to rectify his strategy” in this new face-to-face. In the case of the leader of the PP, he has said that he will be “predictable, solvent, with clear ideas and a clear concept of Spain”, also launching “agreements for Spain”. “For each insult there will be a proposal by the PP,” he added.
