The leadership of the PP parliamentary group in Congress, this Wednesday at a time of the budget debate. Fernando Sánchez (Europa Press)
The color of governments, presidents and parties changes, but some accusations are very similar depending on whether the PP and the PSOE are in the opposition or in the Government.
The PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been very scandalized now because the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has negotiated with EH-Bildu the transfer of the competence of the Civil Guard of Traffic to the government of Navarra and questions it as "a payment to the heirs of ETA to stay in La Moncloa at any price" and in exchange for supporting the state budget for 2023. The popular ones also denounce "the lack of transparency" and the "obscurantism" of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, for the events that occurred together to the fence of Melilla in June.
The PP of José María Aznar ceded that same traffic power to Catalonia in the Majestic pact in 1996 to the
president
Jordi Pujol to come to power and in 2000 the Unión del Pueblo Navarro, his ally in that community, claimed it.
In March 2014, Rajoy's PP rejected a commission of investigation into the events that occurred in 2014 in the El Tarajal tragedy, on the border with Ceuta, in which 15 migrants drowned.
The PSOE, then, denounced the PP's veto of the investigation and called for resignations due to "the shame" of trying to cover up that scandal.
The Government is going to save its third State Budget project this Thursday with a very comfortable vote.
Among the parliamentary partners, there will once again be EH Bildu, an embarrassing ally, but with five coveted seats.
The PP emphasized this situation on Wednesday, as it did in previous courses, this time to accuse Sánchez of surrendering "to the heirs of ETA" for ceding the management of Traffic to the autonomous executive of Navarra instead of the Civil Guard.
The popular spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, even recalled that the first victim of the terrorist group was José Antonio Pardines, a civil guard, 54 years ago, and stressed that 210 members of the armed forces "gave their lives for Spain."
Something similar had been done from the chamber, in the Budget debate, by the defecting UPN deputy Carlos García Adanero, until he incited the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
PSOE leaders and ministers came out in a rush to recall that the Aznar government already negotiated in 2000 precisely with the Unión del Pueblo Navarro the transfer of that power to Navarra and, in 1996, it did so with the Generalitat of Catalonia after the pact of the Majestic who kept Jordi Pujol in power.
The signing of that concession was executed in April 1997 by the then Minister of the Interior, the popular Jaime Mayor Oreja,
Minister Bolaños classified as "false" and "indignity" that it could be said that the current Government withdraws the Civil Guard from Navarra and resorted to data: this executive has increased the staff of the Civil Guard there by 100 agents and with the Government de Rajoy, 330 were lost. None of this convinced Gamarra, who, when asked a question about the difference between the two scenarios, did not articulate a clear answer: "It is the PSOE that has delivered something for which many people have given his life and that the PP never did.
There is a huge difference in agreeing with Bildu and the heirs of ETA what ETA was demanding”.
Behind closed doors
This Friday, the PP and other groups in Congress, from the right, left and nationalists, have forced a commission behind closed doors so that the Interior offers the images recorded on June 24 at the fence of Melilla, in an avalanche in which they died at least 23 people.
The usual allies of the Government demand a commission of investigation, question the version of the Interior and Marlaska.
The PP still does not support this commission, but demands the dismissal of the minister for wanting to "cover up" what happened and hide behind the Civil Guard.
The Interior has granted that the videos be seen this Friday in the congressional commission and not at its headquarters and will send explanations to a senior officer of the armed institute.
That is also criticized by the PP.
He wants the session to be open and a political leader to attend.
In February 2014, when 15 immigrants lost their lives trying to swim to the beach of El Tarajal, in Ceuta, the PP ruled, the minister Jorge Fernández did not give explanations in Congress, the PSOE in the opposition and the allied parties that Now they are putting pressure on Marlaska, they demanded her resignation and that of the other heads of the Ministry "for lying", hiding and censoring the images and not providing enough help.
The PP then vetoed, like the PSOE now, a commission of inquiry.
Of course, the then Secretary of State, Francisco Martínez, spent several hours in the room, which then the journalists could enter.
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