Ribera, on the possible reform of the Mar Menor law: «Our effort is not compatible with breaking the rules to return to the starting box» | The truth

The head of Ecological Transition has recalled the budgetary “effort” involved in the actions that her department is carrying out in the Mar Menor, with an investment of 675 million euros. An effort that “is not compatible with someone who thinks they can break the rules or intend to change them to return to the starting box.” This warning to López Miras has been accompanied by another clearer one: «Normally it is difficult to achieve a degree of trust [con actores económicos y colectivos sociales] that allows us to move forward; “It is enormously dangerous to question that trust.” However, the minister has indicated that she “trusts the president's word” when reiterating the idea of ​​not taking a step back.

The president, for his part, defended that “it is not anomalous” to think that, after four years of validity of a “very technical” law that was drafted in a time of “emergency”, it is “possible for it to evolve and improve.” . For Miras, yesterday's session at the Regional Assembly made it clear that “all political parties, in one way or another, proposed a modification” of the environmental standard. “It is clear that everyone understands that it is a law that can be improved.” The regional leader sees it as reasonable to “open a participation process” in which “everyone” is heard: scientists, universities, environmentalists, farmers, mayors…, “so that everyone can say if they have a proposal that improves law, not to open the door of the lack of protection of the Mar Menor. The minister has referred along the same lines by emphasizing that she thinks it is “correct to listen to everyone.”

The reform of the law, Miras believes, will be ready for September, once the new political year begins, but before that there will be a process in the Assembly “where everyone will be heard and all parties will speak”, including Podemos, he stressed, since it also has an initiative registered in parliament to change the law. The president, outside the law, has influenced “the new stage of collaboration” that has been established with the Ministry and in which several joint plans have already been advanced, such as the creation of a network of wetlands between both administrations that become a green belt, a point that was discussed at the meeting, or the compatibility of the two 'digital twins' of the Mar Menor that will help predict problems in the ecosystem and design better interventions at an urban and environmental level.

The constitution of the inter-administrative commission last week allows, in Ribera's opinion, “to see where and how we are” in terms of the recovery of the lagoon and to “raise those issues where there may be differences.” Now there are “common working bases,” he highlights, which have allowed “relevant progress” that must continue “without misleading us.” Ribera, who could be facing her last visit to the Mar Menor due to her possible appointment as European Commissioner for Energy after the European elections, has said in this regard that she is a person “enormously committed to the agenda” who has the “privilege” of leading, since it requires “coherent, constant and transparent action, and also in Europe”, although he has asked to wait for the PSOE groups to finish proposing the candidates.

Ribera, on whether she will be the candidate for the Europeans: “We will see”

The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, does not rule out being a PSOE candidate for the European elections on June 9, she asks to respect the times for the groups to submit their proposals and then “we will see.” , as indicated. Furthermore, she was “convinced” that the political agenda of the PSOE “requires firm, constant, coherent, transparent action on the territory, also in Europe.”