The PP MEPs Adrián Vázquez and Dolors Montserrat met at the chamber’s headquarters in Brussels with the CEO of Altri, José Soares de Pina, 48 hours after the popular ones prevented with their votes the Petitions Commission – of which Montserrat is vice president – an urgent debate should be held on citizen complaints against the macrocellulose project that the Portuguese paper company is promoting in Palas de Rei (Lugo).
The meeting, which was not reported in the press or through social networks, but which does appear in the public record of meetings –“Meetings”– of both MEPs, was held on October 2, two days after the popular parties stopped the initiative presented by the BNG and vetoed the intervention before the camera of the Ulloa Viva Platform, scheduled for the 3rd.
That September 30, the nationalist MEP Ana Miranda denounced from Mexico – where she had traveled with the leader of the BNG, Ana Pontón, to attend the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum – that the PP “maneuvered” together with the extreme right to prevent the “citizens affected by macrocellulose” from being heard by the commission, as had been approved – this time, urgently – a month earlier “with the agreement of four different parliamentary groups.”
After the result of the vote, Adrián Vázquez pointed out: “We must let the professionals of the Xunta work on a project like Altri and stop dealing with emergencies where there are none.” Although born in Madrid, where he developed his career, the former general secretary of Ciudadanos – signed by Feijóo after the frustrated coalition between popular and orange – serves as a Galician MEP, drawing on his family background in Lalín (Pontevedra). Thus, he continued: “The Galicia that works, grows and generates employment is advancing in Europe. Good management always has a reward, and even more so in Europe.”
Vázquez did not spare a dart against the nationalist MEP Ana Miranda: “The BNG says that it comes to Brussels to defend its vision of Galicia, which bears little resemblance to that of the majority of Galicians, and the vote on its own requests catches them out of tourism in Mexico.”
The European People’s Party frames the meeting of the CEO of Altri with Vázquez and Montserrat – who is also vice president of the EPP parliamentary group, the majority in the chamber – “within the functions of Parliament, its parliamentary groups and its MEPs” that include “meeting and listening to all sectors, whether Spanish or from any other EU country, and even from third countries.” However, when Ulloa Viva visited Brussels in April, they did not find room to receive them, something that – according to the platform itself – the PSOE, Verdes Equo, Unidas Podemos and the BNG did do.
His name does not appear on Vázquez’s social networks. meeting with Soares de Pina, but the “support” that he came to give that same October 2, at the headquarters of the European chamber, to the councilor of Facenda de la Xunta, Miguel Corgos.
Corgos, according to Vázquez’s post, went to Brussels “to present the Galician experience in the implementation of regional funds” where the Xunta is “a reference in the execution of European funds and an example throughout Europe.” Precisely, Altri has conditioned the future of its macrocellulose, the GAMA Project, to obtain 250 million euros of Union funds to move it forward. According to the Facenda Department, Corgos – who traveled to the European capital with “just” time – did not participate in the meeting between the company’s head and the two popular MEPs.
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