Jorge Buxadé, MEP and head of the VOX delegation in the European Parliament, has warned that pensions “are at risk” if the PSOE wins in the general elections on November 29, and has attacked the socialists for “cracking up” at the victims of Adamuz and Urda.
During a visit to Segovia city, Buxadé has referred to the recent railway accidents and has maintained that the PSOE is “not hiding the tragic accidents” in Adamuz and Urda, but that it “is cracking up at the Spanish” because, as he said, “they even applaud Óscar Puente and put him forward as an example of a minister”.
At this point, he has pointed to Puente “as the only person responsible” for the deaths “because he is the one who decides who must manage and how the railway infrastructures must be managed” and he has insisted that the socialists “it’s not only that they haven’t asked for forgiveness, but that on top of that they are cracking up at the Spanish, at the victims, at the dead, at the deceased”.
At the same time, the MEP has denounced the arrival of “more than 9,000 invaders on the island of El Hierro” and that “20,000 still remain on the streets of Ceuta, undermining and harming the lives of people in Ceuta”, and he has predicted that Pedro Sánchez “is going to die politically as he has done in his last eight years, that is, betraying Spain, allowing immigration to invade”.
Buxadé has explained that he has chosen Segovia because there is “a lot of older people who believe that their pensions are going to be at risk if the Socialist Party wins”, since, according to his thesis, those “9,000 illegal immigrants who have just entered” do not come to support the system, “but come to collect the minimum vital income”.
To bolster his argument, he has pointed out that “in Segovia 30 percent of those who receive the minimum vital income are foreigners, who come here to live off the aid”.
The VOX leader has stated that the province “has been betrayed by politicians on one side and by politicians on the other, from the Government of the nation to the Provincial Council or the town councils”, and he has indicated that, although over the last eight years the population of Segovia has increased by 3.8 percent, “but nevertheless crimes in Segovia have grown by 75 percent”.
According to Buxadé, 85 percent of the detentions are linked to drug trafficking and 67 percent to crimes against sexual freedom, which leads him to claim that "retired women" face "a clear risk" when they go out in the street, just like "their daughters, their granddaughters".
Likewise, he has shown his rejection of the Low Emissions Zone that the Segovia City Council is preparing, which in his view will entail "fines for people from Segovia", and he has questioned what real emissions problems the city has or how much industry it concentrates.
As for housing, he has demanded "freeing up land" so that young people can stay in the province, where, he has emphasized, the price of housing has increased in Segovia by 57 percent over the last eight years and he has reproached that "housing is not being built" and neither is "industrial land" being made available.
Water and water infrastructure, at the center of the speech
Water has been another of the focal points of his intervention. Jorge Buxadé has denounced that Segovia is "without water supply because a dam is collapsing due to lack of maintenance and there are no alternatives, there is no plan", in reference to the El Tejo dam, in El Espinar.
For this reason, he considers it "absolutely incomprehensible that in the 21st century a province like Segovia has water supply problems", that "water does not reach farmers" or livestock farmers and that "irrigated hectares are being eliminated in order to turn them into dry-farmed hectares".
Asked how he would tackle water infrastructure, he replied that "first of all it is to move absolutely away from Brussels policies, from its nature restoration regulation and from its theories of climate fanaticism".
In his view, what is necessary is "to put Spanish people’s money into infrastructure" and he argues that there are "possibilities for new pipeline connections and new reservoir projects", but that all those plans "are being held up, everything is stalled, everything is not being carried out".
In this context, Buxadé has lashed out at the CHD, by claiming that "it has become an enemy of the people of Segovia, an enemy of the Castilians, an enemy of farmers, of livestock farmers" and he has questioned how many posts "placed by the PSOE" there are in the confederations, to conclude that "that mafia has to be evicted".
He has added that the confederations "for 100 years have done extraordinary work" and has defended "putting them back" "at the service" of the people of Segovia.
Criticism of the general strike and assessment of the Government of Castilla y León
Asked about the general strike on Wednesday, Buxadé la has called it a "political strike" and has reproached UGT and CCOO for not having said "anything in eight years in the face of the impoverishment of the working class, the loss of jobs, the relocation of companies as a consequence of the Green Deal," while showing confidence that "the Spain that gets up early" will go to its jobs.
Regarding the first months of the Government of Castilla y León, in which VOX manages several ministries, he has defended that "things are being done reasonably well" and that "the government agreement is being complied with," and has called for "continuing to intensify the projects of national priority and deregulation" and "reducing political spending."
Jorge Buxadé has closed his intervention with a call to vote and has underlined that "Segovia needs a voice in the Congress of Deputies and a voice in the Senate to defend them."