The PSOE is astonished by the criticism from the European People's Party of the European Commission, which is precisely chaired by the EPP, due to the statements by the Environment Commissioner against the Doñana irrigation plan that the Junta de Andalucía wants to carry out. "Now it appears with the delegitimization or the attempt to delegitimize the very European Commission that it presides over," the spokesperson for the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, has reproached the PP, who has accused the popular ones of "exceeding all the red lines of the political decency" when doubting the impartiality of the Community Executive chaired by the popular Belgian Ursula Von der Leyen.
This is how López responded to journalists in the corridors of the Congress of Deputies after yesterday the leader of the PPE, the German Manfred Weber, accompanied by the leader of the Spanish PP delegation, Dolors Montserrat, criticized the Commission for, in his trial, "campaigning" for the socialists of Pedro Sánchez a month after the 28-M elections with the Doñana affair. "I have to be very clear: we see the commissioner (for the Environment) wearing a red shirt to campaign for Sánchez and not presenting himself as someone who is looking for solutions in this regard."
The aforementioned commissioner, the Lithuanian Virginijus Sinkevicius, pointed out on Wednesday that the Board's plan would "degrade" Doñana and warned him of "disastrous effects" for the park if it were applied as it is written.
"This is no longer a boutade this is something very serious", has indicated the socialist spokesman who sees the PP "turned into an anti-system party". The Basque deputy has indicated that they believed that the PP "could not go any further in the delegitimization of the democratic system", after breaching the organic law of the judiciary and the European sentences and now warning that it will not comply with the housing law that Congress will approve this Thursday.
In his opinion, the democratic parties cannot question the democratic system as the PP is doing, which should reflect on its position. "Not everything is valid in politics for trying to get power at all costs," he stressed.
In the same sense, the also socialist deputy José Zaragoza has considered "absolutely" irrational the attitude of the popular ones with respect to Doñana and has accused them of trying to hide their "true interests" with this controversy. "The PP has lost its way and I think it has an obvious political crisis on the horizon," he predicted.
For his part, the Minister of Sustainability, the Environment and the Blue Economy and spokesman for the Andalusian Government, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco (PP), has described as "very serious" that "an entire vice president" of the central government as well as the minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, "allows herself the luxury of saying that she does not speak with the Junta" about the situation of Doñana in line with the bill registered by PP-A and Vox in the Andalusian Parliament for the regularization of irrigation in the surroundings of said natural space, in the region of Condado de Huelva.
He was referring in this way, in an interview at COPE, to Ribera's refusal to hold a meeting with the Board on the issue if the Andalusian Executive does not withdraw the bill beforehand. Fernández-Pacheco has insisted on pointing out that from the Board "we are still waiting for the Government to tell us what its solution is" for Huelva farmers who could benefit from the extension of irrigable areas in the municipalities on which said parliamentary initiative is focused, and has reiterated that "looking the other way is never the right option."
