Oviedo (EFE) with the dissolution of the General Meeting, as indicated this Wednesday by the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón.
Barbón has made an assessment of his mandate in the last plenary session of the legislature at the request of the opposition groups during question time with the president, in which he has also mentioned the most negative aspects of his management, in a period marked by the pandemic, the delay in addressing the reform of the administration and in promoting measures to face the demographic challenge.
The head of the Executive has guaranteed that, if he is re-elected, he will promote the statutory reform again in the next legislature “if they give the numbers” after remembering that 27 votes are necessary in the Asturian Chamber -one less than those that added PSOE, Podemos and IU in the current – and warn that the PP does not learn from its Galician counterparts in linguistic matters.
In the case of the LGBTI law, Barbón has stressed that the objective has always been to prepare a text “without taint” so that it does not leave open the possibility of being appealed before the Constitutional Court by Vox, a party that represents “the involution ” and at the same time “the last hope” of the PP to govern Asturias if they add 23 seats after the elections together with Foro or Ciudadanos.
Four budgets approved in a minority
After reiterating that the demographic challenge law, already approved by his government but not by the Board, will be the first to process if he becomes president again, he has also defended that the number of laws approved -24, the lowest figure since the period 95/99- does not serve to “weight” a legislature in which, for the first time in decades, a minority executive has saved the four budgets.
Barbón, who has had a memory for the spokespersons who left office (Teresa Mallada in the PP, Laura Pérez Macho in Ciudadanos, Lorena Gil in Podemos and Ignacio Blanco in Vox), has reproached Vox for not supporting any budget or the measures adopted in the middle of the pandemic and to the PP that, not even at the height of the health crisis, gave way to the annual accounts.
“You say you make an apology for life, but that of an elderly person doesn’t matter?” warned Vox, whose spokeswoman, Sara Álvarez, has described her government as “the one of death” due to the high lethality caused by the covid in Asturias and for the region’s data on suicides and abortions.
But it has been with the popular Beatriz Polledo with whom the tone of the debate has risen the most after Barbón reproached her for an intervention “to make merits and be number one in Congress” in which the PP deputy criticized the “unstoppable” deterioration of Asturias in a legislature in which it fell below one million inhabitants and that closes with public health “on the brink of collapse”
Polledo, called to order for questioning Barbón without speaking, has attributed this situation to the conjunction of two “disastrous” governments, the central and the autonomous, which presents itself as “the most feminist” after the law of yes is yes will cause 25 sentence reductions and 2 releases in Asturias without its president demanding that responsibilities be cleared.
constructive opposition
“Proud despite the mistakes” of a legislature that reflects a decrease of 12,000 unemployed and an increase of 9,000 jobs and that broke tourism, export and foreign investment records, the president has lowered his tone with the spokesmen for Foro and Podemos, to whom he has thanked that in the hardest moments of the pandemic they made constructive opposition, “not like others.”
For the purple spokesman, Rafael Palacios, Barbón wasted the reinforced majority of the left to follow in the footsteps of the central government and negotiated “lower” budgets by including a right wing in which he ended up supported to approve laws such as Environmental Quality while it declared a “war on the bureaucracy” whose victims were the recipients of public aid.
From the Forum, Adrián Pumares, has pointed out that the legislature “leaves a lot in the dark” despite the willingness of various groups to agree and, thus, little progress has been made on the demographic or mental health challenge while renouncing having a Ports Law and the Cercanías service deteriorated after verifying the failure of closing the mandate without even having the AVE. EFE