The General Secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has accused the Government this Wednesday of being “desperate” and of using the extraordinary Council of Ministers meetings scheduled before the general elections of 29 November to “campaign for electoral purposes”.
“What they have not done in eight years, they cannot do now in eight days,” Tellado warned in an interview on “El Programa de Ana Rosa”, on Telecinco. His remarks come after the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, announced that the Executive will hold two extraordinary meetings of the Council of Ministers, on Fridays 13 and 20 November, with the aim of approving social measures that “improve and strengthen” the welfare state.
These extraordinary appointments will be added to the ordinary Council of Ministers meetings scheduled for Tuesdays 17 and 24 November. The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, had already indicated that the Executive would convene additional sessions to push through social initiatives linked to matters that had been left pending.
With this calendar, Tellado considers that the Government is “in an election campaign” and “desperate”, and he argues that the Executive will resort to “all the levers at its disposal to campaign”. “Little credibility,” the “popular” leader added.
Recognition of high-risk profession for the Police and the Civil Guard
On another note, Tellado has argued that the National Police and the Civil Guard should be recognized as a high-risk profession, a proposal included by the PP in its electoral programme for 29 November and which, as he has emphasized, the party has been calling for throughout the legislature.
“Spanish society is in debt to the Security Forces and Bodies of the State,” the PP’s General Secretary said, who has called for institutional recognition for these groups for the dangers to which they are exposed in carrying out their work.
Along these lines, he has stressed that the officers need “recognition and an endorsement from the Government of Spain and from the institutions”, since, as he has highlighted, “they risk their lives to defend the lives of others”.