The deputy spokesperson of the PSOE Parliamentary Group, Patricia Gómez Urbán, has launched into the president of the Junta and regional leader of the PP, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, whom she has described as a “nini president” who “is neither there nor is he expected,” demanding that he get to work “for who pays him,” with a direct reference to the citizens of Castilla y León.
Gómez Urbán has expressed herself in these terms after listening to the words of Fernández Mañueco at a pre-election event held this Monday in Salamanca, in which he was accompanied by the president of the PP of Extremadura, María Guardiola, and by the provincial president, Carlos García Carbayo. “You have to laugh,” the socialist deputy spokesperson commented ironically, who sees the Partido Popular “in 2023 mode,” when “they were already handing out ministries” even before the last general elections.
The socialist leader has once again turned to irony to predict, “without making spoilers,” that “the same thing is going to happen” to the Partido Popular in the general elections of 29 November, and she has pointed out that Feijóo is not going to stop being president due to a lack of his own will.
“You have to have a lot of nerve, but a lot, when you hear Mañueco talk and say that the Government has abandoned farmers and livestock breeders,” the deputy spokesperson of the Socialists’ Group has also reproached, who has criticized that the head of the regional executive has not yet received the farming organizations that, as she has recalled, have been requesting a meeting for months.
Gómez Urbán has also criticized that the president of the Junta has refused “both actively and passively” to make available an extraordinary fund of 150 million euros in direct aid to deal with the cereal crisis in Castilla y León, “when the Government of Spain has already put those 150 million euros,” the socialist representative has emphasized.
In the area of public services, the deputy spokesperson of the Socialists’ Group has accused Fernández Mañueco of having neglected healthcare and has added that public housing “is neither there nor is it expected.” Likewise, she has stressed that “the most” the regional president has done for people who depend on care has been “to steal from them,” referring to the ruling of the High Court of Justice that determined that the Junta charged people dependent on grade 3 and grade 2 improperly.
"We know that Mañueco has a thwarted vocation to oppose both the Government of Spain and our general secretary, Carlos Martínez, but without setting a precedent, perhaps, and for once in these seven years the only thing it has demonstrated is that he is a nini president—neither is he here nor is he expected to be," Patricia Gómez Urbán has concluded, who has reiterated her demand to Fernández Mañueco for him to get to work for the person who pays him.