“Unfortunately we have already seen it, it is the mode of operation of the PP, the one he used with the Prestige when he talked about those threads of plasticine. And today we have become harmless little balls.” In the PSOE they have activated the electoral machinery against the party that has governed with an absolute majority in the Xunta de Galicia since 2009 to compare the management it is doing of the plastic pellets that have arrived to the coasts of the region from the merchant ship Toconao, which lost part of its cargo in Portuguese waters due to the 2002 oil spill.
The message was posted this Monday by Number Three de Ferraz, Santos Cerdán, who at a press conference also reproached the Galician president for not raising the emergency level to 2, which would allow the central government to act: “What we want is to go in there and roll up our sleeves and work on the beaches, which That’s what the man should be working on. [Alfonso] Rueda, who has come to have breakfast with Mr. [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo in Madrid instead of thinking about how to solve a very serious environmental problem.”
The Popular Parliamentary Group, in turn, announced this Monday that it has registered the requests to appear in Congress of the Third Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and the Ministers of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, and Transport, Óscar Puente, to report on their management of this matter. “The Galician Government worked since it became aware of the events. However, the central government has just now appeared to campaign, like its partners in Galicia,” points out the Genoa leadership, also alluding to Sumar.
President Rueda complained this Monday that until the day before, no one from Moncloa had called him. It was Ribera who contacted him, but during his participation in a Europa Press breakfast briefing in Madrid he assured that neither of them had information about what these microplastics are, or how many are adrift or already on the coasts. . He said he learned about this spill on January 3rd.
In the PSOE, on the other hand, they maintain that on December 13 the Xunta was alerted by neighbors of the presence of “these toxic plastic balls” [no lo son, según los análisis] and that the leader popular He did “nothing.” Later, they add, on the 20th, it was the Government Delegation that contacted the Xunta. “And what does Rueda do? He lies and blames others,” they point out.