Direct | RTVE European elections debate, minute by minute
MADRID, June 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The head of the PP list for the European elections, Dolors Montserrat, has this Thursday disfigured the socialist candidate, Vice President Teresa Ribera, for having “singled out” judges, such as Juan Carlos Peinado, who is investigating the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez, to which the Minister of Ecological Transition has also responded by accusing the PP of having been teasing the Spaniards for “five years” for their refusal to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
Almost at the beginning of the Debate at 9 on RTVE, Montserrat reproached Ribera for pointing out the judge investigating Gómez and challenged her to “rectify.” “She can either be on the side of the rule of law or with Moncloa’s arguments. Rectify for democratic health,” she has asked him.
What he has achieved is that Ribera “deeply regrets that the entire PP program focuses on a false complaint from a far-right group called Clean Hands” and that he lied to the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, whom the ‘popular’ proposed as a mediator for the negotiation of the renewal of the CGPJ.
THEY MAKE FUN EVEN OF REYNDERS
“Mrs. Montserrat, it is very difficult to demand respect from the judges when they even make fun of Commissioner Reynders,” he pointed out, and then went on to reproach the PP for having been teasing citizens about this matter for “five years.”
At another time, the head of the PP list has complained that Ribera has carried out “the entire campaign with the noisemaker” that his party “has no project and bases everything on the mud, the ultra, the radical.”
“He wants us to talk about mud because we are going to talk about mud: mud is sending two little letters to the citizens and pointing out the judges to cover up the corruption that surrounds him, a hoax is lying to the Spaniards to come to power,” he indicated, highlighting The Amnesty Law is also brought up.
IN THE EU THEY DO NOT LIKE GOVERNMENTS SURROUNDED BY CORRUPTION
Furthermore, he has warned his socialist opponent that “Europe does not like governments that are surrounded by corruption” and that what the EU is asking is to “increase penalties for corruption crimes”, just the opposite of what the PSOE has done.
For his part, Jordi Cañas, from Ciudadanos, has stressed that Sunday’s elections “are not about Sánchez or Feijóo, nor about Begoña or Koldo.” Of course, he has taken the opportunity to give national policy advice to the PP representative.
“Perhaps you should not be preparing a motion of censure with those whom you are accusing of traitors and coup plotters, more than anything to avoid confusing people,” he said, after Feijóo did not close the door to using that instrument in the future although for it to succeed it requires the votes of Carles Puigdemont.
