MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Popular Group in the Senate, Javier Maroto, accused the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, on Monday of practicing a policy based on “cronyism” after appointing “by finger” the former Labor Minister Magdalena Valerio at the head of the Council of State and has summoned him to reconsider this decision.
This has been pronounced after it has been confirmed that Valerio will be the new president of the Council of State, replacing María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who resigned from the post on October 13.
In an interview on Onda Cero, which Europa Press has picked up, Maroto has stated that every week they wake up with a “new scandal” in which the Government of Pedro Sánchez “puts its hand” in the institutions and has stressed that what happened in the Council of State is another new episode.
“This week could not be less and we have Sánchez’s former minister, Mrs. Valerio, appointed by hand as president of the Council of State. I think she should reconsider that decision because it coincides with another socialist minister acquiring a lifetime position in that same Council”, he stated, alluding to Fernández de la Vega.
Maroto stated that the chief executive should “respect the institutions a little more” and added that “this is the role that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is trying to introduce step by step into Spanish politics”.
In his opinion, it is necessary to bet on the “separation of the institutions” and the “cleanliness and hygiene of the members that make up these organisms.” “It’s one more case every week,” he has complained, to add that the “exemplarity” with which people are appointed to positions says a lot about the person who appoints them and in this case Sánchez has been “a specialist in appoint affines” in all positions of trust.
Given the fact that Mariano Rajoy also appointed former Minister José Manuel Romay Becaría to the Council of State, Maroto has emphasized other bodies such as the CIS, RTVE or the INE and has stressed that all these appointments are part of the “same tentacle “From Sanchez.
“That feeling of little transparency and too much cronyism or affinity is part of what is also tried to be avoided in Spanish politics,” he said, to insist that this is an objective that Feijóo pursues.
