Feijóo makes it ugly that the drought is brought to an extraordinary Council: "We raised it months ago"

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has made ugly the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to hold an extraordinary Council of Ministers this Thursday to address the drought hours before the start of the electoral campaign of 28-M when the PP has been “months ” raising this issue.

Feijóo has demanded this Wednesday that Sánchez apply an investment plan against the drought “now”, because it is an “emergency” and has urged him to double the investment in water and hydraulic policies to reach 40,000 million euros.

“If someone travels through Spain, they realize that the situation we are in is urgent.. This is an emergency,” stressed Feijóo, who reminded the Prime Minister that in the PP “we have been raising a structural problem for months that has not been tackled for five years due to ideological prejudices.”

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The Government has urgently convened a Council of Ministers for this Thursday to approve a new battery of measures that guarantee the water supply. Faced with this decision, Feijóo has regretted the inaction of the Executive and that in recent months it has clashed with regional governments, especially the PP, and has “disqualified” the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, on account of the irrigation in Doñana.

“Water is a national problem”, he stressed at the IV International Expansion Forum, while urging that the current investment of 20,000 million euros be doubled to reach 40,000 million. Feijóo has advocated prioritizing water and hydraulic policies with specific planning.

Among the measures that the Government plans to approve this Thursday in the extraordinary Council of Ministers is the prohibition of outdoor work “when there is an orange alert or a red alert” due to high temperatures issued by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), a measure with which will modify the regulation of occupational risk prevention.

“We are going to undertake some legislative modifications to precisely incorporate into the labor legislation specific measures of mandatory compliance by companies; we are going to adapt the weather conditions to the jobs,” explained the Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, this Wednesday.

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Juanma Moreno: “It is electoralism”

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has denounced the “electoralism” that, in his opinion, this urgent Council of Ministers supposes, assuming that “they will announce a battery of millions of euros that will not be executed” because, according to As has been pointed out, a swamp takes five years to build.

“Despite the fact that the Junta de Andalucía only has a few powers, we have put 300 million euros that are being executed. Now they have realized that they have screwed up and do not have a discourse on water,” Moreno proclaimed.

“We have been talking about this for four and a half years and now they have a Council of Ministers, welcome that they react to a very serious problem that ranchers and farmers have. But they have not made desalination plants, they have not made the swamps,” Moreno has censured.

[The cost of the drought: if the reservoirs reach 39% of their capacity, 27,000 million and 500,000 jobs will be lost]

“Four years without giving a stick to the water”

The parliamentary spokesman of the Andalusian PP, Toni Martín, maintains the same line , who regretted that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has announced this extraordinary Council to address the problem of drought coinciding with the start of the electoral campaign and after four years “without giving a stick to the water”.

“What a coincidence that Pedro Sánchez convenes a meeting of his Council of Ministers with urgent measures for the drought on the day the electoral campaign begins”, stressed Martín, who has reiterated that after “four years without giving a stick to the water” in this matter “he wants to announce great works to us”.

Martín has stressed that the works “do not have to be announced but must be executed” and recalled that last Thursday the PP showed the “map of non-compliances” of the Government of Sánchez in hydrological matters during his term, something that he described as a “true historical debt” with Andalusia.