In a very harsh ordinary plenary session, the Oviedo City Council approved this Tuesday an institutional declaration requesting the resignation “en bloc” of the central government and the calling of general elections.
The motion, proposed by Vox, went ahead with three votes from the councilors of the far-right municipal group who added to their cause the 14 votes of the Popular Municipal Group compared to the ten votes against from PSOE and IU-Convocatoria por Oviedo.
Vox spokesperson, Sonsoles Peralta, maintains that demanding the resignation of the president of the national Executive, Pedro Sánchez, is not limited to a “symbolic” act from the council.
He believes that it is a way of signaling that he does not accept “the ethical and institutional deterioration” that has been reached, in his opinion, due to the “corruption scandals” that surround his entire personal environment and “close and key” figures of his cabinet.
Peralta has expressly cited as examples the investigations opened against his wife Begoña Gómez, his brother David Sánchez, the Koldo case and the role of former minister José Luis Ábalos in the rescue of Air Europa.
His words have provoked the immediate reaction of the spokesperson of the Municipal Socialist Group, Carlos Fernández Llaneza, who in his turn to speak has vehemently refuted Peralta’s arguments and has indicated that behind this motion there is only an intention to “agitate and tense the politics and public life in Spain”.
The role of the PP
The IU-Convocatoria councilor for Oviedo, Alejandro Suárez, has spoken along a similar line, questioning, at several moments in the plenary session, what the true role of the Popular Municipal Group is in allying itself on this issue with Vox: “ Why does this initiative reach the city council here with the votes of the PP coinciding with the same day that Alberto Núñez Feijoo asked the Government to assume management of the emergency in Valencia?
A question to which the spokesperson for the Popular Municipal Group, Mario Arias, responded like this: “The PP is where it needs to be. That this has to be debated today is not my responsibility.” He also recalled that this motion was approved in a commission prior to “the misfortune” that occurred in the Spanish Levant.
An ordinary plenary session that lasted three and a half hours and that served to stage, once again, the lack of consensus on many of the issues discussed, especially regarding the institutional declaration to request the resignation en bloc of the central Government and the calling for new general elections in the country.
With this motion, the Oviedo City Council stands as an example of the ethics and morals that it is supposed to do as a public administration, as well as the fight against corruption, showing the rest of our region and Spain that honesty, ethics, morality and transparency are present in our institution
Sonsoles Peralta
— Spokesperson for the Vox Municipal Group
The Vox spokesperson repeated on several occasions the word corruption linked to the President of the Government and his entire environment and maintained the convenience of this institutional declaration, instead of resorting to a motion of censure.
“Corruption has become the modus vivendi of Pedro Sánchez and his associates, his associates and the Government of the nation. This network of bad practices that surrounds Sánchez himself and his circle of trust is having devastating effects on the quality of life of Spaniards and is calling into question the credibility of the public institutions that are at the service of citizens,” he stated.
He has stressed that when the central government “lies, hides or manipulates information”, it deceives all citizens, including those from Oviedo.
The argument of the motion
“Demanding the end of this Government is giving hope to many Spaniards who live and live between hopelessness and desperation. “Our citizens must feel protected by showing them that from this institution we are not going to allow their future to be in the hands of the most corrupt government in the history of our nation,” he added.
With its motion, Vox believes that the Oviedo City Council stands as an example of the ethics and morals that it is supposed to do as a public administration, as well as the fight against corruption, “showing the rest of our region and Spain that honesty “, ethics, morality and transparency are present in our institution.”
The socialist spokesperson has criticized the positioning of the “radical right that they embody” with the sole function of permanently delegitimizing the institutions and attempting to wear down a Government that has been democratically elected by the citizens.
“You are, once again, instigators of hate speech characterized by intolerance, racism and homophobia. They habitually star in pointing out the weakest, blaming them for any situation and simplifying their speech as much as possible to try to obtain some political gain,” the socialist leader snapped at the Vox spokesperson.
“You, those of Vox, are instigators of hate speech characterized by intolerance, racism and homophobia. You habitually star in pointing out the weakest, blaming them for any situation and simplifying your speech as much as possible to try to obtain some political gain.”
Carlos Fernández Llaneza
— Spokesperson for the Municipal Socialist Group
Fernández Llaneza has accused them of being “hard with the most vulnerable and soft with the powerful” and has described their arguments as “nonsense” because he has maintained that when they govern in coalition with the PP they demonstrate “their incompetence as happened in autonomous communities where “After a few months they leave to resume their usual irresponsibility.”
“For example – continued the socialist spokesperson – in the Valencian Community where Vox, a climate denialist party with no previous experience, was at the head of the Ministries of Justice and Interior. What was your star measure?: Dismantle the Valencian Emergency Unit created by the previous PSOE and Compromís government to coordinate catastrophes. The most worrying thing is the strategy of tension that you follow and that is shared by the PP,” he stated.
The socialist spokesperson has also blamed the PP for assuming a good part of “the ultra agenda and discourse” instead of acting as a center-right party.
The extremisms of the right
“A PP that negotiates with Vox on a regular basis and that has already come to the point of not condemning violent acts these days also carried out by some of its puppies. Mr. Canteli – alluding to the mayor – and the PP councilors are a crutch for the extreme right and their reactionary partners. The PSOE has always and unequivocally reiterated its commitment to three fundamental principles in the fight against corruption. Collaboration with justice, absolute transparency and assumption of responsibilities,” explained Fernández Llaneza.
“What do you think of going hand in hand with Vox approving motions as vomitous as these? If we start talking about corruption, you should be made to look at it, because you are in several sentences as a criminal organization and we are not going to go there, that is already in the past, but you are going to have the obligation to lead this country when it is time, when the citizens decide. . And in this country we cannot afford to run towards these extremisms,” he said.
His words have provoked the immediate reaction of Mario Arias, who has accused Fernández Llaneza of lying and of doing so knowingly because he has highlighted that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, had already condemned the acts of violence recorded as the official delegation passed by. in Valencia.
The debate on this motion did not proceed today. We were not going to intervene, only to support it, because I think there will be many opportunities. Our position is well known because we have asked for the resignation of the President of the Government and the calling of elections and that is neither being a crutch nor being a companion, nor legitimizing anyone’s speech.
Mario Arias
— Spokesperson for the Popular Municipal Group
“The debate on this motion did not proceed today. We were not going to intervene, only to support it, because I think there will be many opportunities but our position is very well known because we have asked for the resignation of the President of the Government and the calling of elections and that is neither being a crutch nor being a companion, nor legitimize anyone’s speech,” the popular spokesperson stressed.
For his part, the IU-Convocatoria councilor for Oviedo Alejandro Suárez has accused Vox of wanting to degrade the institutions and place them in the field of irrationality and in the field of the extreme right. He has also pointed out that what is not understood because “it is unintelligible is what the PP is doing here.”
Mario Arias has replied that “the PP is where it needs to be. You are not going to tell me or those of the PP where we have to be. Where the PP is, the PP decides,” he replied.
The spokesperson for the Popular municipal Group has reminded IU that the request for resignation was already made by Núñez Feijoo at the parliamentary headquarters and has also addressed the socialist spokesperson to recall that in 2017 Sánchez requested the resignation of Mariano Rajoy for testifying as a witness in a procedure judicial.
“You have to have a face like reinforced concrete to come and say these things here,” the popular spokesperson has even stated.
In the same plenary session, the corporation approved a sum of 220,000 euros that will be allocated to the entities that are currently working in the autonomous communities affected by DANA. The council will process, through the competent body, emergency aid for an approximate amount of one euro per resident of Oviedo
Solidarity with those affected by DANA
Only the catastrophe caused by DANA in the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia had managed to attract the unanimity of all municipal groups when at the beginning of the plenary session a minute of silence was observed in memory of the fatal victims and their victims. relatives.
In the same plenary session, the corporation approved a sum of 220,000 euros that will be allocated to the entities that are currently working in the autonomous communities affected by DANA.
In an institutional statement, the municipal groups show the “affection and solidarity” of the people of Oviedo to the affected people and express their “deepest condolences” to the family members.
In this way, the city council makes itself available to the administrations, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and all democratic institutions to help “whatever is necessary to the affected territories.”
The council will process, through the competent body, emergency aid for an approximate amount of one euro per resident of Oviedo.
Likewise, it is urged that all public administrations implement the necessary measures to confront this catastrophe, making all State resources available to the affected territories “in order – it maintains – to save lives, care for the injured and provide maximum material support to all the families who have seen their homes and way of life devastated.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
