The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has this Saturday disqualified the promotion of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, to the First Vice-Presidency of the Government in replacement of María Jesús Montero, and has warned that it is a "trap" to present him as a technical and "meek" official.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced last Thursday the appointment of Cuerpo to replace Montero, who becomes the PSOE candidate in the Andalusian elections. At the same time, he decided to designate Arcadi España, until now Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, as the new Minister of Finance.
During his speech at the second interparliamentary meeting of the PP of Ourense this Saturday, Tellado has pointed out that, despite the fact that with this reshuffle the Executive intends to convey that "everything is going well" because they have placed a "moderate" and "meek" vice-president, the only replacement that, in his opinion, Spain needs is that of the Prime Minister himself.
"After the defeat of Pedro Sánchez, a great process of national reconstruction must come that will have to be undertaken as soon as we arrive at the Moncloa Palace," he affirmed.
Along these lines, the PP's number two has insisted that his party must "defeat Sánchez to recover Spain." "And defeat him well, defeat him with enough distance to give our country the political stability it has not had over the last eight years."
Changes "cosmetic" and criticisms to the technical profiles
"This week's cosmetic touch-ups only demonstrate that Sánchez continues to hoard power around himself. Once again, with the trick of selling us that more power is given to a technical minister, to a moderate minister, sure, sure. We already know how technicians and moderates end up with Sánchez," the popular leader has stressed.
Next, Tellado has enumerated several cases of members of the Executive who, as he recalled, were presented as technicians and, in his opinion, ended up acting as party politicians, citing Nadia Calviño, Fernando Grande-Marlaska or Teresa Ribera.
In coherence with that argument, he has stressed that "if you accept being number two" of the "most corrupt government in history", you accept being "number two of corruption, you accept being number two of sectarianism and you accept being number two of institutional degeneration".
Montero, Andalusia and the Budgets
In his speech, Tellado also referred to the movement to place Montero at the head of the PSOE candidacy in Andalusia and mocked Sánchez's bet: "If the best Pedro Sánchez has to send to Andalusia is María Jesús Montero, may God come down and see it."
The general secretary of the PP has described the former first vice president as the "most incompetent Minister of Finance" that Spain has had, alleging that she has only managed to push through three General State Budgets in eight years and that in the current legislature she has not managed to approve any. "That she has gone four years without preparing Budgets is an outrage," he added.
Criticisms of the fiscal decree and infrastructures
On the other hand, Tellado has lashed out against the Executive for the decree of fiscal aid derived from the war in Iran, which he has branded "insufficient" for not incorporating the deflation of the Personal Income Tax, and has stressed that the Government pushed it through "with difficulty" and with three weeks of delay.
To conclude, he warned that during the Easter Week travels citizens "are going to suffer the deficiencies" that, according to him, the Government has generated in the railway network and on the roads. At the same time, he recalled that the PP has promoted in the Senate an investigation commission on the Spanish railway system, especially following the tragedy of Adamuz (Córdoba), in which 46 people died after the collision of two high-speed trains.