El Spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Parliament of Andalusia, Tony Martin, has accused to Pedro Sánchez of “laughing at the functions of the Cortes Generales”, established in Title III of the Spanish Constitution and has urged him to “leave” and call general elections, if the General State Budget cannot be passed. He has estimated at 700 million euros is what it costs Andalusia that Sánchez shirks his obligation to present the General State Budgets to Congress.
In a press conference, the Popular Party parliamentary spokesman considered "scandalous" what is happening at the political level in our country and has stressed that The President of the Government of Spain does not fulfill any of the three functions that our Magna Carta reserves for the Cortes Generales: the legislative, the preparation of the General State Budget and the function of controlling the Government, has been enumerated.
Toni Martín has compared Sánchez's attitude with that shown by the president of the Andalusian Government, Juanma Moreno, in 2022 when he failed to pass the regional budgets, after which he dissolved the Chamber and called elections. Faced with this, "in Spain, there is a government, that of Pedro Sánchez, that is in its third year since the elections and that has still not brought a budget to the Congress of Deputies," said Martín, who also stressed that "The final straw is that they tell us it's a waste of time".
In this regard, the spokesperson recalled that the presentation of the budgets “is a constitutional obligation”, which, in his opinion, Sánchez "laughs at," along with the other two functions established by the Spanish Constitution for the Cortes Generales, and he insisted, while referring to the impact that the lack of a General State Budget has on Andalusia.
Toni Marín emphasized that the president of the regional government "has estimated the damage this causes to the Andalusian community at 700 million euros per year." In his opinion, Sanchez should leave if he is not able to present the budgets "for the good of all Spaniards and Andalusia."
He reiterates, the EREs existed
On the other hand, Toni Martín alluded to the maneuver by the president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, regarding the order of the Provincial Court of Seville directed at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to rule on what the Constitutional Court established in relation to the ruling in the ERE case. "We find Mr. Conde Pumpido acting as a kind of football goalkeeper, trying to stop any attempt that goes in a direction contrary to what he says and what he defends," he noted.
He asked, "What is Mr. Conde Pumpido afraid of?" And he continued: Is he afraid that this reduction in the sentences of those indicted in the EREs who have benefited from this ruling by the Constitutional Court goes against the express indications of international judicial circles, with regard to the fight against political corruption?
Toni Martín reminds the PSOE-A and Montero of the need for fair financing
On the other hand, the Popular Party's parliamentary spokesperson has accused the spokesperson for the Socialist Group, María Márquez, of "lying when she says it's a lie that her boss—referring to the general secretary of the PSOE-A party, María Jesús Montero—has refused to grant Andalusia debt relief," and that this can be verified in this Parliament's information resources.
In this regard, Toni Martín has played a few seconds of a video of an appearance by Montero when she was Minister of Finance in Andalusia and has emphasized: “Indeed, Mrs. Montero was against debt forgiveness for Andalusia and he said the same thing as us, that the important thing is the autonomous financing system.”
Toni Martín referred to the non-legislative motion that the Socialist Group brought to the last plenary session of the House, and that the PP "amended that initiative by saying no, no debt forgiveness, no, no regional financing system, and that debt forgiveness will be seen after the regional financing system, which is what puts an end to the problem."
In this regard, he invited the media to "review the occasions in this Parliament, throughout all these years that Pedro Sánchez has been governing Spain, on which occasions the Socialist Group has supported any of the countless initiatives that the Popular Party has brought forward calling for a new regional financing system." He asserted that "none of them have." "There hasn't been a single time that they have voted in favor. They have never positioned themselves in favor of a new regional financing system."
They should "apologize" to the professional who was coerced in the La Janda Health District.
Martín also spoke out about the conviction for coercion of the Marea Blanca spokesperson in Cádiz. "The left-wing parties, Adelante Andalucía and Por Andalucía, used an intolerable approach" during the last oversight session regarding the events reported by the director of the Cádiz-La Janda Health District, in whose favor a court has now ruled.
"Here we saw how the spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, the spokesperson for Andalusia, Inmaculada Nieto, and also the Socialist Party, through its secretary general in Cádiz, spoke, for example, of Juanma Moreno and the Andalusian government's harassment of people fighting for better healthcare." As Toni Martín recalled, "Mr. José Ignacio García spoke of the Popular Party's repression of this person. Ms. Inmaculada Nieto said it was a political accusation and expressed her support for this man, but the truth is that this man was convicted yesterday of coercion," he added.
For all these reasons, Toni Martín believes that this type of attitude constitutes "a real disgrace, both on the part of Adelante Andalucía and Por Andalucía, as well as on the part of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), who—in his opinion—"have made a complete fool of themselves with this matter." "I haven't heard them apologize," he rebuked, while wondering what the attitude of the left-wing parties would have been if this professional had not worked for an administration governed by the Popular Party.
In conclusion, Toni Martín accused left-wing groups of "double standards" and "double standards."
