The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, made an autonomist demand in his end-of-year speech, which received criticism from the opposition for his “self-complacency” and “electoralism.”
Rueda chose as the setting to record his message the Pazo de -December 1981- the Parliament of Galicia”, as he himself recalled.
The head of the Galician Government assured that, “as then”, now “there are risks that threaten the constitutional framework that during all this time protected the progress of Galicia” and defended that “equality between citizens, the ties of fraternity that unite us and the credibility of the legal framework that protects us should never be in negotiation.”
The president of the Xunta also focused on the regional elections that will be held on February 18.
“In 2024, Galicia will choose, in freedom and with full autonomy, its path for the coming years. I trust that the debate will always be constructive, and that it will not add noise to the daily lives of Galicians. Although in other places it may seem exceptional, politics in Galicia does not have to be a source of new conflicts, but should always be used as a tool to find solutions,” he added.
The head of the Executive also argued that “there are many more reasons to be optimistic than to fall into resignation” and said that “there are many reasons to feel proud of the Galicia in which we live.”
The return of 8,000 migrants, the “investments” that Galicia captured in 2023, the “most complete children’s vaccination schedule”, being a land “leader in clean energy”, a community in which “education is free from the moment you arrive crawling until you come out with the first degree under your arm” or in which “the University is more economical than anywhere else and Vocational Training proves to be gaining in strength every day” were some of the aspects that stood out.
Accusations
The general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, criticized Rueda’s “self-complacency” in his end-of-year message and was convinced that the “Galician people” will reflect and see the socialists as “the best of the options” in the regional elections.
“I did not expect anything else from Rueda in an end-of-year message, evaluating the year 2023, than a speech full of self-complacency and that denies realities that we Galicians perceive every day,” said González Formoso in an audio sent to the media. communication.
The general secretary of the Galician socialists opted to face a “very different” 2024, which will allow “a better country in the next regional elections” led by the socialist candidate, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.
Thus, he defended an alternative progressive project that opens the “possibility of a Galicia with more joy, more enthusiasm, more morality and more capacity, and above all with more conviction in the capabilities of the Galician people.”
As a guarantee of his candidate, Formoso affirmed that the socialists “have changed rights at the state and European level” and are “leading politics at the European level.” “It is the same PSdeG that has to lead Galician politics in the coming years,” he concluded.
Sumar Galicia’s candidate for the Xunta, Marta Lois, called the message “disappointing” and “electoralist” and was convinced of the “decisive” role that her party will play on 18-F.
“It clearly acquired an electoral tone, of political propaganda. He did not speak to the real Galicia, to the Galicians worried about things like paying the price of rent, mortgages, saturated emergencies or health personnel who cannot cope,” explained Lois, who also indicated that “Mr. Feijóo is really Mr. Rueda’s boss, who is the delegate of the regressive policies of these last 14 years of Government of the Popular Party in Galicia,” said Lois, who assured an enormous mobilization so that “this is Mr. Rueda’s last speech
The BNG candidate to preside over the Xunta, Ana Pontón, was convinced that 18F is going to make “history” because in the elections “a better Galicia will win.”
This was expressed in his own end-of-year message, which he recorded in the Compostela neighborhood where he lives, where his neighbors “tell him” that something must be “done with health care, with primary care, the rise in prices.” ”, the lack of work or the increase in mortgage and electricity payments.
“These are the concerns that I get from talking to the people in my neighborhood, the same ones that you share with me in the meetings I have every day around the country, the same ones that I feel,” said the BNG.l leader.
2024-01-01 21:39:48
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