· The general secretary of the popular Andalusians warns that Montero "leaves the Andalusians in the lurch, maintaining a financing system that she herself considered unfair when she was a councilor of the Board"
· Calls on John Swords that “be clear” and “say once and for all who you are defending in Doñana, the affected families or Pedro Sánchez?” because the objective of the legislative initiative is to "solve a problem that the PSOE itself generated when it governed"
The general secretary of the Andalusian PP, Antonio Repullo, regrets that the Andalusian Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has "left all Andalusians in the lurch" with her decision to postpone the reform of the regional financing system. "A system that she herself considered unfair when she was the Junta's Finance Minister, but now that she is Pedro Sánchez's minister, she comes to tell us that she is not going to change it" and "what Andalusia deserves."
A change of position that contrasts with the firmness maintained by the PP, whose only objective has always been "both now that we are governing, and before when we were in the opposition, to improve the lives of all Andalusians" and remember that " Mrs. Montero has always found the outstretched hand of the PP when it came to working for the Andalusians”.
Repullo warns that the decisions of María Jesús Montero "do not affect the PP or the government of the Junta de Andalucía, this affects the life and circumstances of all of us who live in Andalusia." In addition, he criticizes that "this financing that is denied to Andalusia is possible in other territories, with a clear objective that is to remain in power, because it coincides that those communities that do have better financing and more autonomy to manage their own taxes are governed by the parties support Pedro Sánchez in power”.
Given this circumstance, the Secretary General of the PP of Andalusia states that the claim of Andalusia is a necessity They are also demanding communities governed by the PSOE such as Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha. "What we want to have is the ability to compete on an equal footing with other territories to offer the best public services to our neighbors," defends Repullo.
The general secretary of the popular Andalusians adds that "we are talking about a minister who leaves Andalusia in the lurch and relegates, without facing, a necessary reform." “A necessary reform for the Andalusians, which she herself claimed as a counselor and as an obvious minister, maintaining an unfair system for the Andalusians”, he reiterates.
In addition, it states that “she is also the minister who has refused to deflate the personal income tax; that would allow families to have greater purchasing power”. However, he points out that the Government of Sánchez and Montero "the only thing it has dedicated itself to is collecting, collecting and collecting incessantly", stressing that "the State is filling its pockets by crushing Spanish families and of course also to the Andalusians”.
In line with the above, Repullo offers two significant data. On the one hand, VAT, "for which in 2022 €10.000 million more was collected than the previous year and only in the first two months of 2023 €1.400 million more have been collected than in the same period of 2022". Likewise, it gives as an example the income tax collection, a concept for which 15.000 million more euros were collected in 2022, 2.400 million more in the first two months of this year compared to the same period last year.
In short, Repullo points out that "in the face of the manifest loss of household savings and the disposable income of families in favor of an insatiable collection", the only thing that Pedro Sánchez does is presume that thank goodness the Socialists are governing.
In his opinion, that is “the same as saying that it's a good thing that the party in which many of its leaders dedicated themselves to paying for their vices in brothels throughout Andalusia is governing; that is to say, the Government of Yes is Yes, the Government that has already allowed more than 800 rapists and sexual offenders who are seeing how their sentences are being cut, or the Government in which an issue as unpleasant as the case has been established Tito Berni”. "It's undignified," he says.
Thus, Antonio Repullo defends that "in Andalusia we have a different government, a government that looks to the future, that will not tire of working to improve the lives of Andalusian men and women and that we will always prioritize the defense of interests of Andalusia with all the firmness”. “We are here to defend the interests of Andalusia and that is what we are going to dedicate ourselves to at all times”, he emphasizes.
Doñana: ask Espadas to clarify if he defends Andalusian families or Pedro Sánchez
Regarding the legislative initiative on irrigation in Doñana that will be debated in Parliament plenary next week, Antonio Repullo explains that "it is a problem that the PSOE generated and they were not able to correct it in fifteen years", for which he demands that the General Secretary of the Andalusian Socialists "Be consistent and say who you want to defend, because your mayors in that region are in favor of this legislative initiative of the PP"
"Who do you want to defend, the families that are affected by a problem that the PSOE itself generated or Pedro Sánchez to keep him in power?" Repullo questioned. "We ask the PSOE as a whole, all Sánchez's spokespersons in Andalusia, his ministers, not to muddy more, not to use Andalusians anymore."
