Politics The PSOE turns against Casado for questioning European funds: "He is a weak leader"
Madrid Madrid appeals to the Supreme Court the distribution of European funds by the Government of Sánchez
Galicia Feijóo requires Sánchez to annul the "unjustified" distribution of European funds to related CCAA
The PP is "vigilant" and will not let even one pass.
The national leadership of the party and the autonomous barons have launched a total offensive against the Government to denounce and demand explanations for the "hand distribution" of European funds to privilege autonomous communities with PSOE governments.
The judicial battle opened this Wednesday by the Community of Madrid and the protest actions raised by Galicia extend to the rest of the autonomies governed by the PP, which have also raised their voices and demanded explanations from Pedro Sánchez.
In addition, more than a hundred popular
mayors are also getting involved in this offensive
.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso challenged before the Supreme Court an allocation of funds of nine million euros for the promotion of employment in the Valencian Community, Navarra, Extremadura and the Basque Country.
The Community of Madrid denounced that "sectarian and partisan criteria" have been followed because in the four regions the PSOE participates in their governments -in the first three presiding over them and in the fourth forming part of the coalition Executive-.
Similarly, the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, sent a request to La Moncloa to annul the decree for "unfairly favoring" these autonomies to the detriment of all the others.
First, the "political tracks"
This formal requirement, which is the administrative route prior to taking legal action, is the formula that the presidents of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, and of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, have also adopted to fight back and protest so it is considered a "partisan" deal. For his part, Juanma Moreno is still thinking about it in Andalusia, while sending notices that he will act "relentlessly" if his community is harmed.
The strategy of Mañueco and López Miras, like that of Feijóo, is going to be to first exhaust the "political avenues" before engaging in a judicial battle.
"The ideological criterion and political affinity should not be the way to behave," Mañueco justified this Thursday after giving the order to send the prior request to the Government.
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León pointed out that "imbalances in distribution" are a "very serious" matter.
"We consider it an attack and logically we will defend ourselves," he said, so that if there is no satisfactory response from La Moncloa, it will go to court.
The Murcian president, López Miras, has already expressed his fears that there would be a discretionary use before Sánchez during a conference of presidents.
"Since we learned that Iván Redondo would be in charge of distributing the European funds, I publicly denounced that it would be a partisan distribution based on Sánchez's interests," he said Thursday.
Now he joins the offense.
Sources from the Murcian presidency say that "all the prior requirements have been initiated by administrative means to denounce the favored treatment. If this route does not bear fruit, of course, we will go to court."
Second, the "judicial route"
Andalusia has also stirred to criticize the situation, but has not yet decided how to act: whether to file a formal complaint, go directly to court or wait.
No route is ruled out right now, while warning that "it will not allow" an "undermining" of Andalusia from any point of view, reports
Chema Rodríguez
.
Thus, Moreno assured that he will be "relentless" so that not one euro less than what corresponds to him arrives.
The president of the Board warned that if the region comes out badly, he will use the judicial process to defend "the interests of Andalusians."
In this context, the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado, supported this Thursday that the
popular
barons and mayors mobilize to stop a management of European funds that, in his opinion, is a "scandal".
"Unfortunately, it could be seen coming: the Government is handing out aid for what the PP proposed transparency and an independent agency. It is patronage and can lead to corruption and irregular practices," he said on
Antena 3
.
Married's plan
More than a year ago, Casado proposed to Sánchez the creation of an independent authority to control the distribution of funds, but the President of the Government closed his hand.
Likewise, the
popular
demanded that the Congress of Deputies could carry out an exhaustive control and audit the destination of the money, for example, calling periodic appearances to give maximum transparency or accessing the details of the distribution.
But it is something that has also been rejected by the PSOE.
Despite the obstacles, the PP has decreed maximum vigilance over European funds due to doubts that they are used effectively and has commissioned the leader
Elvira Rodríguez
to coordinate this control task.
At the same time, Genoa blesses that the autonomies and municipalities act as they deem appropriate to ensure transparency and guarantee that there is a "fair and balanced" distribution and that it does not give rise to partisan uses or favor treatment.
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