In one of the most difficult years in living memory, at a time when the pandemic has not been overcome and the war in Ukraine has had major consequences, such as the energy crisis and rising prices, the Alicante Provincial Assembly is choosing more to tackle the main issue. discussions national policy and more autonomous than focusing on state news, but yes, the government team has launched several plans to help the hardest hit sectors during this 2022.
The latest proof that national and regional politics have monopolized debates among MPs is the recording of two motions that the People’s Party, which co-runs the institution with Ciudadanos, will take to the next plenary session this week. December 7 People’s resolutions deal with the reduction of the penalty of sedition and the controversial “yes is yes” law. All of this follows the national line the party has set to wear out President Pedro Sánchez and thus facilitate the arrival of its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in La Moncloa next year. And as part of a chain move, this strategy also includes the erosion of Generalitat chief Ximo Puig, and then the eroding, as part of the same maneuver to seek victory for the PPCV leader. Committee, Carlos Mazon. In the background of the deputies’ attitude in recent months, there is the closeness of the important election cycle that will take place in 2023.
State of the state
After the two resolutions PP registered, everything indicates that what will happen at the next plenary session will be very similar to what happened in the last county debate in the middle of this month. In that session, Mazón made most of his first speech. criticizing Puig’s administration and Botà nic over the last seven years, supported by a range of data on the failure of planned investments in health or education. The opposition, consisting of PSPV-PSOE and CompromÃs, did not stray from this position and focused a significant part of its speech on defending Consell, which was formed by both formations and a third partner, Unides Podem.
This is not the first time Mazón has resorted to Government reform to reduce the maximum penalty for sedition targeting the PSPV. The people’s leader, speaking as the leader of his party, did not hesitate to combine the figures of Sánchez and Puig to describe it as a kind of pernicious tandem that puts the interests of Catalan separatists above those of the State as a whole. the Valencian Community. Mazón also jointly criticized Sánchez and Puig when he pointed to them as “most responsible” for the lack of state investment in Alicante.
Cs, the other partner of the government team in Diputación, was also very critical of the management. Sanchez government and the unmitigated complaint filed for another year in the General Government Budget. Of course, his spokesman, Javier Gutiérrez, lost momentum in the last plenary sessions under the weight of internal problems with his own party, from which he was temporarily suspended for months. Moreover, the opposition has repeatedly accused it of being closer to PP’s assumptions than to those of the orange formation.
Opposition
The left bloc follows the same trend, giving priority to the work of other administrations. This is the case of PSPV, whose spokesperson Toni Francés has dedicated herself to highlighting the work done by PSPV. Council in Alicanteespecially in the field of digitalization and new technologies, he commended the implementation of projects such as the Digital Zone, the Center for Aging, or the nominations to host the national headquarters of the Artificial and Space Intelligence agencies of Alicante and Elche.
The government team accused the PSPV and CompromÃs MPs of pretending to be “Consell delegates” in plenary sessions. In this context, they blame them for being cold-blooded when it comes to questioning the crimes against Alicante. budgets or failing to show a resounding refusal to approve the tourism tax, even though the province’s sector is firmly against its enactment. Gerard Fullana, spokesman for the Valencian supporters, ignores these criticisms and focuses his interventions on continuing to link the PP with corruption.
115 million for energy and shopping cart
In the latest debate on the state’s state last week, Provincial Assembly President Carlos Mazón announced that the state agency will allocate 115 million in the first months of next year to mitigate the effects of the increase. in energy prices and in the shopping cart. The emergency fund will be activated in the first quarter of 2023 until the elections.
Source: Informacion
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