Pedro Sánchez has plunged fully into the conflict between the Government and the Junta de Andalucía, due to the promotion of a irrigation law in the Doñana Natural Park, and has publicly warned the PP that “Doñana does not touch herselfit is the heritage of the Andalusians and of all Spaniards”.
At this point, he has assimilated his actions with that of the ultra-right in Castilla y León and the controversial statements by Vice President Juan García-Gallardo that carbon dioxide is not polluting. “Both reject scientific evidence and the mobilization of many young people who want governments committed to bequeathing them a habitable planet.” In the case of Andalusia, he added, they even go so far as to “deny European legislation and the warnings of the European Commission.” “I say it from here, calmly but forcefully: Doñana is not going to touch herself“
The irrigation law began its process in the Andalusian Parliament just this Wednesday with the support of PP and Vox to amend the decision of the previous socialist government to eliminate 1,600 hectares of Huelva County as agricultural land, of which 800 will now be able to return to its original condition. But this is done at a “critical & rdquor; and “dramatic & rdquor; for the Natural Park, according to scientists, in the midst of the worst drought in decades, and with the warning from the National Government that it will go to court and the “astonishment and concern & rdquor; from the European Commission, which has already warned by letter that there will be sanctions and fines for disregarding the firm ruling of the European Court of Justice that ordered the closing of illegal wells and alleviating the overexploitation of an aquifer that is the heart of Doñana and is drying up for intensive agriculture and climate change.
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The president has thus condensed the latent malaise of the Government, which for weeks has been trying to stop the bill, with the express threat of filing an appeal before the Constitutional Court. In statements to La Sexta, the Third Vice President and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, pointed out that the Government has activated “all springs” to defend this wetland and to comply with the European ruling that condemned Spain for the poor state of conservation of the Natural Park. That is why she considered the attempt to increase irrigated areas with water that “does not exist” to be “outrageous”.
Unlike Sánchez, who did not mention Juanma Moreno, the minister did charge him and accused him of “not caring about anything, neither Doñana nor the truth nor the Huelva farmers.” In his opinion, he has succumbed to the pressures of Vox. The vice president reported that she has spoken unsuccessfully with the Andalusian president and with some of his advisers to have the initiative withdrawn. “It seems to me that it is the arrogance of a gentleman who shoots with king’s powder at a high cost for everyone else,” she defended.