The Popular Party wants to focus the debate around the wave of Graves on the thesis that one of the main causes is the action of the piómanos, despite the fact that the data does not support said hypothesis. After the first meeting of the Management Committee before the new political course, the president of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has offered an appearance at the Genoa headquarters to present a “Comprehensive Fire Plan” composed of 50 measures that the popular will lead to the Courts with their solutions in front of the crisis. During his speech, the head of the opposition has wanted to “emphasis” in one of them that has presented as a star measure: the creation of a “National Pytholic Registry”, with geolocating telematic bracelets, similar to those of those convicted of gender violence. And to stop “the fires that voluntarily produce by people”, trying to divert the focus on the responsibility of the PP regional executives, – mainly in Galicia and Castilla y León – accuse of “uncoordination” in extinction operations, of which they are competent in situation 2 emergency.
In addition to breaking its comprehensive plan, Feijóo has assured that there has been “a problem of prevention and planning” about forests and mountains in rural areas ,. “It was evident that we were faced with an added risk from the climatological point of view by the rains and additionally with the temperatures continuously above 30 degrees, with low moisture percentages and with winds and some atmospheric movements typical of the temperature difference between the atmosphere and the soil produced non -planned fires or with absolutely atypical itineraries,” said the leader of the PP.
However, and even recognizing Ex Professor These adverse circumstances, Feijóo has overlooked that, according to the Constitution and the Montes Law, these matters of prevention and fire planning are the competence of the Autonomous Communities. The majority, and the most affected by the flames this August – Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura – in the hands of executives of the Popular Party, with the presidents Alfonso Rueda, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco and María Guardiola in front. On the assumption of faults, already questions from journalists, Feijóo has avoided expressly guaranteeing the management of their barons, emphasizing the work of the troops. “Everyone has to assume the responsibilities that correspond to him. Of course, the regional presidents will account for their responsibilities and I can assure them that they have worked all the means deployed in the territory, both in Galicia and in Castilla y León and Extremadura, until the exhaustion. And I thank the autonomic presidents to intervene before civil protection,” he replied.
After several days in which the PP has hardened its speech against the central government, the leader of the PP has covered this institutionality on Monday and has expressed its desire not to engage “in partisan bronchs of the and more”. But, then, Feijóo has accused the government of not making available to the autonomous communities “all the means available so that the crisis did not have the intensity it has had.” He has also loaded against President Pedro Sánchez for not traveling to the affected areas before and “being late” in his response to the emergency, congratulating himself for having advanced. “We have visited the fires before the president of the Government, we have requested that European aid be activated before the President of the Government, we have requested that army units be deployed before the President of the Government,” he said.
In addition to censoring the central government for having delayed, in his opinion, in resorting to the army, Feijóo has launched a diatribe against the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles. “If the minister has acted late, it will be her responsibility,” he criticized. “I assume the responsibility of requesting on August 15 the deployment of the army, I would do it again,” said Monday, a day before Robles appear in the Senate, at the request of the PP. They will also, forced by the absolute majority of the popular in the Upper House: the Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, on Wednesday; The Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, on Thursday, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain, Luis Planas, on Friday.
Regarding the deployment of media, the leader of the PP has also highlighted as a second main measure among the 50 presented, “guaranteeing speed, coordination between administrations and security for citizens.” To do this, the PP asks “to establish objective and transparent criteria for the mobilization of all the resources of public administrations, under the leadership of professionals with accredited experience.” In parallel, the criticisms against Mañueco and Rueda are increasing. In the case of the Junta de Castilla y León, to distribute through the territory that, they were activated late, or had to insist so that they were used.
With the presentation of its measures, Feijóo has advanced to the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, where the first aid will be approved. “We will see tomorrow [medidas] of the central government, “said Feijóo in this regard.” And we can make an assessment between yours and ours, “he finished.
Among the other measures included in the “Comprehensive Fire Plan”, the PP proposes aid for workers in the agricultural sector that have been affected; tax exemptions for victims; financial support for municipalities; the promotion of forest restoration and reservoir grooves; Temporary exemption of fees and taxes for harmed companies; affected; special attention in the realojo of evacuated people; guarantee that no one is left without housing, whether common or second property; An assistance telephone and mobile offices or the total exemption of all kinds of aid.
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Feijóo has highlighted as a star measure the National Registry of Pyómanos after days in which he has emphasized “incendiary terrorism”, insisting that 80% of fires are “intentionally.” “Only in the last two and a half months there are 41 people arrested and 127 investigated,” specified today. . The last Interior Yearbook states that in 2023 the Civil Guard had “knowledge” of 2,944 fires and conatos. Of these, only 225 were allegedly “intentionally.” That represents 7.64%, far from 80%. As for the serious fires of this August, several of the great fires, such as Jarilla, in Cáceres, or Porto de Sanabria, in Zamora, originated from lightning.
