Matienzo, (EFE)
“We are going to take care of the wolf but not like this”, the PP leader has guaranteed during a visit to a cattle farm in Matienzo, el Cerrillo, in the Cantabrian valley of Asón, the area hardest hit in the region by wolf attacks.
With the candidate for the Presidency of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, and the candidate for the mayor of Ruesga and rancher, David Setién, Feijóo has criticized that the Government of Pedro Sánchez does not allow the ranchers to defend their animals.
“You cannot sacrifice your heritage in such a frivolous and absurd way as the lack of control of the wolf cabin,” he lamented.
“I was born in a village”
The leader of the PP has also claimed his rural origin. “I was born in a village, I grew up in a village”, he said, after stating that the President of the Government of Spain only knows the rural world “from his flights from Falcón”.
Feijóo has criticized that when Spain has more money than ever from European funds, the countryside receives 5,000 million less from the CAP and has recalled that for the first time in 25 years the trade balance of the agri-food industry has dropped.
In his opinion, the Ministry of Agriculture “paints less and less.” “It is a second-rate ministry in a government of 22 ministries,” he added.
The president of the PP has rejected “the attacks” of PSOE and Podemos on the rural environment, such as when they branded farmers or ranchers “slaveholders”.
Another of his commitments is to lower the VAT on meat and he has described as “lack of respect” that it has not been included in the reduction of VAT on basic products, in addition to ensuring that he will take measures so that people decide to go live To the villages.
According to Feijóo, the PP is going to “break the isolation” of Cantabria, guaranteeing the infrastructure it needs, such as the connection with the Atlantic Corridor, the AVE to Reinosa and the train to Bilbao.
¿Ideological attacks?
Buruaga has lamented Sánchez’s “ideological attacks” on the rural environment, with the order that protects the wolf “has generated a problem where there was none” and could be “the final straw” for extensive livestock farming in Cantabria.
The PP candidate has stressed that Cantabria has Feijóo’s commitment to get the ranchers out of “the defenseless situation that Pedro Sánchez and Miguel Ángel Revilla have put them in with the protection of the wolf.”
The candidate for mayor of Ruesga has given his testimony as a rancher of the problems that the towns are suffering because of the wolf. “It reaches the door of the house and the cattle disappear,” he said.
Setién has asked for support for rural areas, which need good infrastructure and good internet connections, especially now that all the procedures for CAP aid are digital.