The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Wednesday in the areas devastated by the fires of recent days in Naraval, in the council of Tineo, Asturias.PP (PP/EFE)
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has accused this Wednesday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of making "demagogy" with the forest fires.
“You cannot go to an autonomous community where the PP governs and say that the problem is negligence and a lack of means, and then go to a community where the PSOE governs and say that the fires are a consequence of climate change and arsonists .
A little respect for the territories and the intelligence of the citizens”, has requested the president of the popular after visiting some areas affected by the fire in Asturias in the last week.
From China, Sánchez had assured that if the intention of the fires in the Principality were confirmed, those responsible for it "would not go unpunished."
In his time as president of the Xunta de Galicia, Feijóo escaped on multiple occasions from the accusations of lack of prevention, pointing out the main culprits to the arsonists, whom he called "terrorists", just as the Asturian president, the Socialist Adrián Barbón, after the wave of fires in recent days.
Without citing him, the leader of the popular has assured: “I want to ask respect to the Asturian winners and farmers.
The first ones who are interested in not burning a single hectare of forest are the people who live from it”.
In 2018, Álvaro García Ortiz, the current State Attorney General and then Environment Prosecutor, contradicted Feijóo, at the head of the Xunta, for denouncing without evidence the existence of an "arson terrorism" plot.
Most of the fires are intentional, but as the brigade members explain, the effects of climate change make them more virulent and their extinction more complex.
In smallholding territories such as Galicia, with small uncleaned plots in the hands of many owners, the risk increases.
The climate emergency is a current and urgent crisis.
It causes damage like the ones we are seeing in the #IFVillanuevaViver.
My recognition of the great work of all the public servants who fight against the fire.
You have the support of this government.
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– Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) March 27, 2023
In statements to the press after appearing together with the PP candidate for the presidency of the Principality, Diego Canga, and the candidate for mayoress of Gijón, Ángela Pumariega, Feijóo boasted of the Galician prevention system, "one of the best in Europe", He has said, and has asked for more resources in Asturias both for prevention and for extinction.
Among other measures, he has referred to the contracts of the brigade members, "which cannot be for weeks or months", despite the fact that the group complained about their conditions during Feijóo's term as head of the Xunta.
The leader of the PP has demanded the appearance of the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, so that she can account for the media and the Budget available for fire prevention,