The deputy spokesperson for the BNG in the Galician Parliament, Olalla Rodil, has assured that the agreement for the transfer of the AP-9 to Galicia "respects the will" expressed by the regional Chamber and has accused the PP of being "deceitful" and of "boycotting" this transfer of powers process.
"It is not a trick clause, the one who is deceitful is the PP, which has been boycotting the transfer for more than a decade. It has no arguments and uses lies," the nationalist leader stated in a press conference, in which she highlighted that the agreed document establishes that "in the event that the judicial debate annuls the 25-year extension granted in the year 2000, the Spanish Government will assume the economic costs derived from that decision."
After reiterating that the agreement, rejected only by PP and Vox, "respects the will emanating from the Parliament and the self-government" of Galicia, she emphasized that it "must be specified in the bilateral negotiation between the Xunta and the State" and that in that framework "more steps can be taken forward." "Does the PP want more? Let it do its job, let it negotiate more in the Mixed Transfer Commission," Rodil insisted.
In this scenario, the Bloque deputy has announced that her group has presented a non-legislative proposal for the Galician Parliament to pronounce itself and support the agreement reached last week in the Congress committee on this road infrastructure.
As she explained, the text contemplates the transfer of the motorway to Galicia and "the obligation of the Spanish Government to assume the economic burdens arising from the decisions adopted by the General State Administration throughout the years in which the State was the owner."
Likewise, she recalled that the concession was "illegally extended by the PP government presided over by Aznar" and that it "was declared illegal by the European Union." "If it weren't for that extension, today Galicians would not be paying abusive tolls on this infrastructure," she stressed.
In this regard, she criticized that "the only one who seems not to be happy" about this "historic" agreement is "the PP," which, in her opinion, "has been very angry from minute 0" and "never wanted the transfer of the AP-9."
"For a decade, they have been putting spokes in the wheels to prevent the highway from being transferred to our country. First, they blocked the transfer law, and now they are boycotting it by voting against the report and using the Xunta to prevent a Galician and toll-free AP-9. A betrayal of Galicia and the interests of Galicians," he denounced.
The PSdeG demands that the PP clarify its rejection
On the other hand, the spokesperson for Industry of the Socialist Group, Patricia Iglesias, stated that "the ball is in the PP's court," which, in her opinion, "will have to explain why it is against the transfer."
When asked by journalists about the words of the Minister of Infrastructures, María Martínez Allegue, in an interview this Sunday on Cadena Ser, in which she rejected the agreement and alluded to a "trap clause," the PSdeG deputy demanded that the Popular Party clarify "why they voted against it and why they voted with Vox."
At this point, Iglesias asserted that the Socialist Party was "the one who initiated the bonuses" and who promoted "the report in Congress."
"We talk about the AP-9 as if the PP were the victim. It was the Aznar government that extended that concession, gifting decades of tolls to the concessionaire, a private company. Everything that came after is a consequence of that absolute mess by the Aznar Government," she stated.
In any case, she pointed out that the agreement will now be analyzed in the Transport Commission and, subsequently, "there will be the Joint Transfer Commission," where the processing of the AP-9 transfer will continue.