Seville, (EFE).- The privatization of public health and the alleged “irregularities” in the emergency health contracts “by hand” of the Board with private clinics, denounced by the opposition and denied by the president, Juanma Moreno, who has defended its legality, have marked the political debate in the Andalusian Parliament this Thursday.
A little more than two months before the municipal elections and two days after the demonstrations of the white tides in defense of public health, the tone of the dialectical confrontation in the plenary session of the Chamber has risen and has drifted towards accusations of old and new corruption cases.
They have alluded to the ERE case, the Roldán case, the resignation of the director of the Civil Guard, the Faffe case or veiled threats by the president in response to the PSOE-A leader, Juan Espadas, who has named the “scandal” of the emergency health contracts of the Board “by hand”, for a value of 243 million with private clinics, which it has described as the “emergency case”.
“These are contracts without legal protection, by hand and without any requirement, crude contracts that benefit the private sector, anomalous by right for which many explanations will have to be left,” Espadas denounced, who disgraced the president who maintains that “hiring by hand is legal” and specified that “it is not true” that these contracts have the approval of the Court of Auditors.
The “pufos” of the socialist governments
Moreno, who has denied that his government is privatizing public health, has defended the legality of emergency health contracts, has indicated that the State administration and other communities “have also done them” and has maintained that Andalusia is one of the regions that “less agree” with private health.
The popular has issued a veiled warning to Espadas by advising him that there are still “many pufos” to be known about the different stages of the socialist governments in the Junta with “verbal contracts, word awards and intermediaries.”
“Beware of hoaxes that nobody knows who can explode in the hands,” Moreno added.
The Board’s pricing order for the concerts with the private company and the emergency health contracts also focused the accusations against Moreno by the spokesperson for Por Andalucía, Inmaculada Nieto, of whom she said that they were “loaded with irregularities” and recalled that they already In the previous mandate, the TSJA “knocked down” the express contracts of the Board.
“They have made emergency contracts without being one, in a file with several contracts, without legal support and being warned. It happened before the pandemic, in 2019, with the same irregularities and extra costs for the private company, ”he denounced.
The president, who linked the accusations to the proximity of the municipal elections, has snapped at Nieto that if he is so interested in public money “why did he vote against the Faffe commission that is trying to find out where the public money has gone.”
In addition, he has criticized his “retail of inconsistencies to wear down” his government “missing” the truth with “incorrect” data, since the contracts – he has stressed – are “endorsed” by current regulations.
Free glasses for minors
In a similar tone, the dialectical confrontation between Moreno and the spokesman for Adelante, José Ignacio García, took place. The first once again denied that the Board is privatizing, while García asserted:
“It is accelerating privatization, increasing referrals and feeding the idea that the public does not work for citizens to get a private policy.”
On the other hand, the spokesman asked Moreno to include free glasses for minors in public health and a social bonus for adults in terms of income, which he justified by indicating that there are 1.5 million Andalusians who need glasses and they can’t afford them.
Contracts aside, the intervention of the Vox spokesman, Manuel Gavira, referred to the social pact on which he assured that Moreno is “doing exactly the same thing that he previously criticized”, with “sterile” agreements with the unions, and has told him that “It’s going to happen to him like with the couplet, he’s going to break the social pact from using it so much, from handling it so much.”
He has warned of the danger of the photos “with those who were participants in corruption in Andalusia” and has criticized “the favorable treatment” of the unions. “It is exactly the same thing that the socialists did,” Gavira lamented. EFE