The BNG had already admitted before the second plenary session of the legislature in the Parliament of Galicia that it would not spend the “bullet” of the automatic commission of inquiry, while barely two months have passed of the, in principle, four years of giving and take in camera. And he confirmed it again on Tuesday. Once again, through Deputy Iago Tabarés, when he defended in the House the request to convene the said committee to clarify the “irregularities” that, according to them, spoil the management of the pandemic by the Xunta. “It would mean having confidence that it will not be necessary to activate the button during the entire parliamentary term, given the behavior in (…) housing, health,” the Frontista deputy apologized. Just before that, the committee was rejected by 38 votes against the Popular Group. PSOE and DO supported the bloc for 33 insufficient points of support.
“It is not against the PP, the voters of the PP are not corrupt. We understand that they are honest people, and they will be disappointed if they do not want to pursue these (…) irregularities,” because “corruption is harmful to “Public resources” and “is “against the democratic essence,” said Tabarés, who again put forward the arguments that the BNG has been using since the February 18 elections. And they started using their suspicions about the Xunta's contracts against Covid as a hammer.
In any case, the session diary will contain as a novelty Tabarés' veiled accusation of the popular bank. With much restraint and little grace, the nationalist delegate, as soon as he took the floor, issued an ironic “congratulations” to the nine Popular Group delegates who had just been sworn in or pledged to office. We remind them that they are now registered and any cause that affects them will be broadcast in the TSXG. And we urge them, if they have outstanding bills with the justice system, to come forward and not delay the justice system. Offers the only information that it referred to an Orense deputy.
“I don't understand what that means,” interrupted Miguel Santalices, speaker of the parliament, his voice noticeably lower. An exchange ensued, something like this.
-Conscription.
-That's what the presidency is for
-Call of duty, Mr. President.
-That's what the legal services of the House and the president are for. It's very free to say it, but it wasn't appropriate, pointing to Orense, I don't know why.
-I appreciate the freedom.
-You can say it, but it's not appropriate.
-I appreciate the interruption. Service calling. If no one has to take this into account, we will continue.
Sources consulted by ABC state that Tabarés was referring to Juan Manuel Casares, in the case of the dismissal of a former mayor of the BNG in Castrelo de Miño, who was closing the lists in the last elections. In his response, Popular Group spokesman Alberto Pazos said there are “accusations that the opposition would not dare to make” “without the privileges” they enjoy as deputies. He said this because of the commission of inquiry into the Covid contracts, but also because of the mention of Tabarés, while he called the attitude of his boss Ana Pontón “political cynicism” for empathizing with Pedro Sánchez, after her five days of reflection. , and hours later records the initiative that was being debated in Parliament at that moment. With the “sole purpose” of “continuing to obfuscate Galician politics”.
The left, Pazos accused, has been spreading deception and using institutions to attack family members of PP leaders for months. In the specific case of the request, first for an external audit, and then for an investigation in the Pazo do Hórreo on the contracts during the pandemic, the popular spokesperson condemned that the bloc has been committed from the beginning to 'there to make a mess of it'. plenary session, with a 'clumsy manipulation' of the Contas report, 'which arouses suspicions'. “Enough about the treachery, everything must have a limit, and today you crossed them all again, don't lie,” he reprimanded Tabarés, who sat listening with his arms folded. Non-verbal language: defensive.
The PSOE was not spared for questioning the allocation of 159 million from the Covid fund, which, Pazos added, “not even the government” questions. «I find it regrettable that a lawyer from the Consello de Contas would so rudely manipulate a report from the body in which she performed her duties; “It's deplorable,” he snapped at Patricia Iglesias, who denied it from her seat. And they are already “frenzied,” the Conservative spokesperson added, “as they express suspicion” about material that has delayed its delivery by more than a month — ignoring the acquisition challenges brought on by the pandemic.
“How can you say so many atrocities?” shouted Pazos, who stated that “there is no reason to question the emergency contracts.” And he recalled that, if there had been suspicions, the protocol requiring Contas to inform the Public Prosecutor's Office would have been activated. “It did not happen because there is no indication in this regard, no objection to its legality,” he concluded.
And so, within minutes, BNG's request to parliament to investigate the Covid contracts was born and died.