The president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, and the president of Extremadura, María Guardiola, have urged to “leave behind a very dark stage” in which, they have denounced, Pedro Sánchez’s Government “has dedicated itself to punishing the autonomous communities governed by the Partido Popular.”
At a joint event held in Salamanca and covered by Europa Press, both leaders have pointed to the general elections of next 29 November as an “opportunity” to “bet on a country project led by a responsible person,” referring to the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom they have described as “a good manager and a person who respects institutions, respects the autonomous communities, the truth, rigor and respects the essential values that underpin democracy.”
In her address, Guardiola has emphasized that the appointment with the ballot boxes is “an important appointment” in which citizens not only have “the possibility of changing Government, but of recovering that country’s institutional democratic normality, recovering another way of doing politics based on and centered on the general interest, far from corruption, so much noise, abandonment and scandal.”
“Against those who have been building walls and dividing Spaniards for all these years, what the Partido Popular defends is a project that builds, that moves forward hand in hand with all Spanish society, and a project centered on being common,” she has stated, asserting that this is the line of action of the ‘populares’ in the autonomous regions where they govern.
In this context, Guardiola has reproached that at present Sánchez’s Executive “punishes the autonomous communities that are governed by the PP” with “the absence of investments, with the denial and rejection of infrastructure so necessary for the territories, such as the recovery of the Ruta de la Plata train, or with a system of autonomous funding that is clearly tailor-made for separatism.”
For his part, Fernández Mañueco has emphasized that Castilla y León and Extremadura share “Sánchez’s grievances” in terms “of infrastructure or railway matters, but also the neglect of the countryside, the rural world, farmers and ranchers.”
As an example, he has cited “the improvement of the A-66 itself,” calling for a “clear” commitment to “the Ruta de la Plata train.” “We consider that the Government can do more,” he has stressed.
Mañueco has also emphasized that both communities share "the need" for the Government of Spain to also "defend farmers and ranchers, the Common Agricultural Policy, or the modernization of farms."
"We also need a government that bets on strengthening public services, on protecting public services by bringing security to all people," he added, to present Núñez Feijóo as the alternative to achieve an "effective management government, of strengthening economic policy," with "a reduction in the taxes that suffocate people, families and businesses," together with "economic growth, job creation and strengthening public services".