The PP has disdained the State Pact that Pedro Sánchez proposed this weekend during his visit to the provinces of Ourense and León, where he found the virulence of sixth generation fires that have already left according to the first estimates of the European Environmental Surveillance Program Copernicus. The main opposition party, which governs in Castilla y León, Galicia and Extremadura, the three communities most affected by the fires with Asturias (PSOE), considers that the initiative is a “smoke curtain” with which the president of the Government “intends to ideologize, confront and polarize the Spanish society” while the Moncloa does not attend to its requests of the last days of mobilizing “specific capacities” Army.
“His state pact does not turn off the fires or give solutions to the people who are losing everything right now. People expected much more [de Sánchez] That a flight forward or a smoke curtain to try to save the image after having been disappeared for a week, ”said Ester Muñoz, the PP spokeswoman in Congress, in an appearance in Genoa. Sánchez interrupted her vacation in Lanzarote on the weekend to visit two of the communities most beaten by the flames. The government, through the third vice president and minister for the ecological transition Aagesen, has appealed to the responsibility of political parties to support the pact. They are events that come from the hand of climate change and, therefore, we have to bet on something as important as a state pact before the climatic emergency, ”he said after visiting the National Information Coordination Center on Forest Fire (CCINIF) in Madrid.
“Bringing a state pact on climate change is as if in the midst of a tsunami you bring a pact for the oceans. It does not serve absolutely for anything and what people expect is other types of measures,” Muñoz has wielded, which has focused its appearance on the requests of the PP communities, whose competences are the prevention and extinction of fires. “Sánchez wants us to talk about this covenant instead of why there are no more means, or why the requests for the autonomous communities are not being taken care of that the most effective of the Armed Forces,” he had abounded.
Sanchez raised Sunday during his visit to Ourense with the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rued Logically, to respond to these responsibilities in a coordinated, unitary and in the same direction, ”he said.
The president’s intention is that in September the foundations of that state pact are. Its objective would be to “offer public servants, officials, all capacities, not only when a fire occurs, but before, so that they can respond much more effectively and with many more guarantees than they are doing now.” To the announced rejection of the PP we must add that of Vox, a denial of climate change that is maintaining a low profile during the wave of fires with unusual temperatures.
The Government has already given Bruces with the parliamentary blockade for other issues of importance for the ecological transition, such as the recent antiapages decree, which supposed an oxygen ball for renewables, which has not achieved sufficient support of political parties. Given the possibility that, again, the opposition does not support that proposed state pact, Aagesen has argued that it would be something “totally irresponsible” and “inexplicable” in this context of “vulnerability that Spain lives.”
The Third Vice President has advanced on the lines that would guide the proposal of Pact. Spain already has a law of climate change, approved in 2022, and with plans to adapt to climate change that depend on the ministry directed by Aagesen. The minister has indicated that it is already working on its design and that in September it will be announced by the president. Although Aagesen has already pointed to some essential issues that should be included, such as “the anticipation, preparation and dimensioning of public services to respond to that climate change.”
The PP has taken advantage of the crisis to remember that the government has extended budgets. “The best state pact that Spaniards can make against fires are the general state budgets that incorporate more financing for all this,” Muñoz has abounded, which has criticized the public accounts are extended. The PP spokeswoman and deputy for León has ignored that the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, president of a community that the PP governs uninterrupted since 1987.
Muñoz has instead claimed a “state pact” between the communities and the government in which the financing of prevention and extinction services is addressed. “Autonomous presidents have been asking for years to talk about this at a fiscal and financial policy conference because there are communities that have more forest mass than others and therefore we are destined to fires in a way greater than others,” he emphasized.
