The commission investigating the contracting of the to defend that the orders comply with the law, although he did not go into detail or elaborate on the explanations. He also stated that he is “proud” of the decision that the Vigo health center was built with a privatization formula that cost 470 million euros more than a traditional public works tender.
Rueda, who recalled that he was a member of all of Feijóo’s cabinets in the Xunta, so he experienced the Cunqueiro process firsthand, insisted on the idea, repeated by all the former senior officials of PP governments who have passed through the commission, that that was a “lean time” and that public-private collaboration was “the way” to build the new infrastructure. “I come to say here that I am proud of that decision and that it could be built,” he said. The model, which Feijóo decided on in 2010, involved entrusting the work to a company – in reality, a temporary union of several -, which assumed the financing in exchange for a million-dollar fee that the Galician Government will continue to pay each year until the middle of next year. decade. This formula also implied a concession of almost all non-clinical services not only in the new hospital, but also in Nicolás Peña and Meixoeiro. The audit report from the Consello de Contas concluded that it would have been cheaper to undertake the project by bidding on public funds for the work on the one hand, with the traditional system, and the services on the other.
To start his intervention in a commission that the PP has tried to make difficult – he voted against its creation and then kept control of it and vetoed appearances like Feijóo’s -, Rueda considered that the state of the investigative body is “between liquid and gaseous” and has become “something that not even its promoters would know how to define.” Beyond defending the legality of all the orders of the pandemic or the accumulation of minor contracts with Eulen, the company in which Micaela Núñez Feijóo, sister of the president of the PP, is director for the northwest, did not provide more specificity about the processes. . He did make reference on several occasions to the situation of Spanish politics, at the same time assuring that he would not become an “complicit” in transferring his “toxicity” to the Galician Parliament. “Here there were no ‘koldos’ or ‘aldamas’; That happened in the Government of Spain,” he said.
The president of the Xunta accused the opposition of lighting “torches of the inquisition regarding anything” that the Galician Government does and resorted to the argument that, for example, Eulen also contracts with other governments, not all of them from the PP, and even He did it with the bipartite of PSdeG and BNG that led the Xunta between 2005 and 2009.
“I want to locate him: he is in the Parliament of Galicia, not in Madrid,” replied the leader of the BNG, Ana Pontón, who was upset that he did not answer the questions she asked him and interpreted his silence as “a confession” that the PP has been “using the opacity zones of public procurement for 15 years to benefit family businesses.” The 1,573 contract contracts for 7 million euros to Eulen between 2018 and 2024 that the BNG accounts for are, according to its national spokesperson, a “demonstration of fraudulent use” of minor contracts.
The leader of the PSdeG, Xosé Ramón Gómez Besteiro, considered that “these are not isolated cases, there is a modus operandi” in the Xunta to benefit companies related to the PP. He cited, like Pontón, the cases of Universal Support, related to Feijóo’s brother-in-law; Eulen’s; that of the company in which the husband of the number two of the Galician PP is a partner; or that of the signature of the brother of the general secretary of the Presidency. This “clear pattern” of the Xunta, according to Besteiro, was also reflected in the model chosen for Álvaro Cunqueiro. He defended that the bipartite had left a public design “signed, projected and budgeted,” but Feijóo changed it. He asked Rueda why they took on “with so much impetus” an alternative that ended up being more expensive and providing a smaller hospital.
Source: www.eldiario.es
