The spokesperson for the Government of the Principality, the socialist Guillermo Peláez, has spoken this Thursday about the incident that occurred during the plenary session of last Tuesday, when the minister Ovidio Zapico (IU) decided to leave the session after announcing that he was suspending his presence indefinitely in the parliamentary control hearings while the opposition groups maintained the blockade of the processing of a housing law.
"I said it in the Board of Spokespersons, the president --Adrián Barbón-- under no circumstances authorized those statements," Peláez said regarding Zapico's words. The spokesperson referred to this issue in statements to journalists after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, in which the Senior Clerk presented a report on what happened, stressing the obligation of members of the Executive to submit to the Chamber's oversight.
Peláez has wanted to set out the position of the Council of Government led by Adrián Barbón: "We absolutely guarantee compliance with the Constitution, the Statute of Autonomy, the rest of the legal system and therefore we guarantee that the Council of Government, as it has always done, will submit to its accountability obligations before the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias".
At the same time, the socialist leader has lashed out at the PP and "its crutch," referring to the General Secretary of Foro Asturias and deputy of the Mixed Group, Adrián Pumares. "It seems extraordinarily serious to us that the PP is not even capable of guaranteeing that it is going to comply with its responsibilities and therefore continue with the parliamentary processing of the housing law, simple and exclusively because they don't like that rule," he criticized.