The tension that characterizes this X Autonomous Legislature in the Region of Murcia momentarily disappeared this Wednesday from the Regional Assembly, in the second session of the Debate on the State of the Region, dedicated to the interventions of the spokesmen of the parliamentary groups. Although these reproaches and accusations were launched, as is logical in political confrontation, the tone was more friendly than in previous debates.
The first to go up to the platform was Francisco Lucas, representing the PSOE. He made his debut in a parliamentary appointment of this type, since he agreed to the spokesperson after the departure of Diego Conesa. Lucas offered some brushstrokes of what the socialist program will be in the next regional elections of 2023. He presented a proposal for a “social contract” that the PSRM wants to sign with all sectors of Murcian society, “without sectarianism or exclusions”, as an alternative to the Government of López Miras, whom he defined as “a ballast” for the Region and as “Attila’s horse, where grass does not grow wherever it passes.”
This “social contract” is based on seven axes: fight against poverty, health, education, culture, youth, democratic regeneration and Mar Menor. On the other hand, he disdains the proposals for agreements that López Miras made on Tuesday, recalling that all the agreements that the Executive has promoted in the last ten years have ended on a dead letter.
The socialist spokesman assures that the regional debt, which he advanced will stand at 12,000 million, comes mostly “from the management, waste and corruption of the PP.”
He also blamed the Executive for the “collapse” of the Mar Menor and pointed out that it is only necessary to read the Statute of Autonomy to verify that “the powers are almost exclusively regional.” “You will not be remembered, Mr. López Miras, for anything positive, but for having collapsed the Mar Menor, for skipping the waiting lists, the vaccination queue and for degrading the institutions, for having been declared a defector, for having given up Education to the extreme right”, concluded Lucas.
Marín: “The best land in the world is hostile to women”
He was followed at the lectern by the spokesperson for Podemos, María Marín, who had less time than usual because she had to share her speech with the other members of the Mixed Group, the deputies of Ciudadanos Juan José Molina and Ana Martínez Vidal.
Marín put the emotional note, at the beginning of his speech requesting a minute of silence for the victims of “the terrible massacre” of the Melilla fence. Going into the matter, he ironized with the mantra of “the best land in the world” that López Miras repeats. «The Region is the best land in the world, but the worst managed, a land where taxes are forgiven the richest, a land that has become a paradise for unscrupulous opportunists who change their jackets, but in a hostile territory for women”.
The spokeswoman referred to the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States that eliminates the protection of the right to abortion and reproaches the PP for not ruling against it. “Irene Montero will not allow the Taliban of the PP to turn the Region into her fief,” she advanced. She recognized the good employment data in the Region, but attributed them to the management of Vice President Yolanda Díaz.
Likewise, he criticized that the Infrastructure Pact “is a copy of the PP’s electoral program” and predicted that the Financial Autonomy Law “is a toast to the sun that will have no practical application.” “López Miras’s only project for the region is to maintain the easy chair,” he said, while showing the image of a chair.
Martínez Vidal and Juan José Molina shared time, eleven minutes for each. The former minister also criticized the Financial Autonomy Law and asked the president of the Community if he would make the same proposal with Feijóo in La Moncloa. She was very harsh with the management of the PP, recalling that “there is no group that has not demonstrated in the Palacio de San Esteban in this legislature.” Molina, for his part, defended that “there is a middle ground between the best land in the world, which the president says, and the land of Mordor that others paint,” and called on López Miras “to honor institutions and democracy by getting rid of of the turncoats.”
Liarte: “Whoever rationalizes spending loses the elections”
Juan José Liarte, spokesman for the Vox Parliamentary Group, offered a speech with high intellectual and ideological content. He spoke of gender violence (“75% of reported men are innocent”), the alleged indoctrination in educational classrooms, the LGTBI community, feminists and abortion, among many other issues.
But he also referred to regional problems such as the debt and the Mar Menor. In the first section, he advocated a plan to rationalize public spending, although he warned that “whoever does it loses the elections.” Regarding the lagoon, he rejected that farmers be criminalized, that their degradation be used “to kill the Tajo-Segura Transfer” and indicated that “there is nothing to do if the Government of Spain is not involved.” Liarte encouraged a serious and serene study on the possibility of creating the province of Cartagena.
Francisco Álvarez, from the Liberal Group, dedicated his time to praising the Executive of López Miras and attacking the Government of Pedro Sánchez. He was the only one who remembered the 2021 motion of censure, “a conspiracy” that he himself was in charge of frustrating. He justified his actions with this sentence: “If a politician of integrity is forced to choose between his party and the citizens, they will always choose the citizens. We believed it then and we believe it now, no matter how much they insult us.
According to Álvarez, one of the consequences of the failed censure motion was that “Sánchez increased his punishment of the Region for not submitting to his designs.” As examples, he put the cut of the Tagus-Segura Transfer, the distribution of European funds, and his lack of action to recover the Mar Menor. On the contrary, in the opinion of the spokesman, there are “the liberal policies” of the Government of López Miras. “We are not going to let Murcians raise taxes to pay for their empty ministries and their armies of advisers and nannies.”
Mowing: “We will be the containment dam for Pedro Sánchez”
The second session of the debate was closed by the spokesman for the Popular Parliamentary Group, Joaquín Segado. He responded to the socialist Francisco Lucas, insisting that if the Community’s debt grows it is due to Pedro Sánchez’s refusal to reform the regional financing model.
In the same way, according to Mowing, with the Mar Menor, the PP spokesman challenged the PSOE to tell him about any work of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition that is being executed. «There is none, the Framework of Priority Actions sleeps the sleep of the just in a drawer». “How would the Mar Menor be if the regional government did not remove the biomass?” asked the popular leader.
«The PP of López Miras and Núñez Feijóo is going to continue presenting proposals so that citizens do not suffer more from the Government of Pedro Sánchez. The regional Executive will continue to be the containment dam for the disastrous policies of Pedro Sánchez and his associates. We have a roadmap that goes through lowering taxes, creating jobs and guaranteeing well-being”, advanced Mowing.
The popular spokesman recalled that Pedro Sánchez has not yet faced a Debate on the State of the Nation since he became president of the Government in 2018.
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