Feijóo reproaches Sánchez for stopping the drought with "extraordinary" aid to the farmer: "A national water pact is urgent"
“The consequences of the drought cannot be faced with extraordinary aid to farmers”. The opposition leader has charged against the Prime Minister for trying to tackle the lack of water in Spain by calling an extraordinary Council of Ministers, the eve of the start of the electoral campaign. Because, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo has recalled, the problem suffered by the countryside, and consequently farmers and ranchers, “has not been born in recent months.”
Thus, the popular leader has once again pointed out the “negligence” of the Government, since in the last five years it has been “lack of a water policy”. In contrast, Feijóo promises a National Water Pact and to bring together all the autonomous communities in the Conference of Presidents if he reaches Moncloa: “It will be my first commitment as President of the Government.”
Thus, the current leader of the opposition has emphasized that the aid that the Government will approve this Thursday will not help to solve the root of the problem. “With one hand, today [Sánchez] is going to give specific aid and, with the other, he has stopped executing two out of every three euros that he had budgeted for hydraulic infrastructure; with one hand he is going to say that he is worried and with the other he is not It has done more than wait for it to rain in recent years, but we have spent five years using ideology over technology to lead to the collapse of agriculture.”
For Feijóo, the socialist president's response has a clear electoral background: “Farmers are not tricked by giving them aid on the day the posters are put up. The countryside does not want to be irrigated with aid, but to irrigate their land to produce and sell their products.”
For this, the popular president has recalled what his anti-drought policy will be if he wins the elections. With him “there would be a national water authority, a national strategic water network, a national plan to purify and reuse them in agriculture; a plan to modernize supplies so as not to lose up to 30% of the water from old and broken pipes; 40,000 euros in the next 10 years to solve the water problem in Spain”. He would also go to a conference of presidents and agree “among all” so that water is not an extraordinary aid plan but ordinary government planning.