The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, believes that the reform of the crime of embezzlement responds to arguments "difficult to defend". The socialist leader, who has already shown his disagreement with the pacts of the PSOE with the ERC on several occasions, highlights that the republican formation claims interests "against Spain".
In conversation with the media at an event in Toledo, Page has assured that he "would have a very difficult time reaching an agreement of this type with the independentistas". “Although it makes legal sense”, Page has said, the debate “is already very truffled” because it is right in theses far removed from the PSOE. Even so, the president of Castilla La Mancha has acknowledged that he still does not know the details of the modification of this crime.
It is not the first time that Page has raised his voice in a sense contrary to what the Government advocates, especially in relation to the dialogue with the independence parties. Aware that his opinion is not the majority within his formation, to pronounce in this way is "brave", according to Page, who has also admitted that what the broader sector of the PSOE says will have to be done.
Despite the palpable differences on this issue, the socialist president has declined the PP's request to urge the socialist deputies and senators for Castilla-La Mancha to vote against the crime of sedition in Congress and the Senate. Yesterday, Monday, the popular general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, also asked García-Page and other barons to force the convocation of a socialist federal committee to try to stop the modification of the Penal Code. "I trust that there is still a good PSOE," said Bendodo.
But Page has bluntly rejected it on Tuesday. "They must be doing very badly [in the PP] if they expect the PSOE to be the one to lend them a hand," he said, assuring that they will not stand as "the solution to the political impotence that others have." , has added that he will not encourage the presidents of the PP "to go against Feijóo."
Emiliano García-Page has acknowledged that these debates affect the regional elections to be held in May, so it is a "democratic obligation" to establish his position, according to the president of La Mancha. “I am very interested in the fact that the citizens of my land and the voters, whom I am going to ask for their trust in a while, know what I think about the issues”, he concluded. In this way, García-Page insists on setting his own profile with the elections on the horizon to mitigate any attempt by the popular to take advantage of this issue.
