The European Commission once again denies the PP. This time on Doñana’s account. The conservatives have launched into a fierce battle against the college of commissioners chaired by Ursula von der Leyen due to the harsh opposition they have found in the community government to the law with which Juanma Moreno Bonilla intends to pardon illegal irrigation. Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo did not take long to attribute this rejection to “pressure” and this Thursday they went a step further by pointing out as their architect the son of the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, who is an adviser in the general direction of the Environment that pilots the file against Spain for the deterioration of the National Park. “We can confirm that he has not been involved in the Doñana affair”, they answer emphatically in the European Commission.
Brussels responds to the accusations of partisanship of the PP by Doñana: “The Commission is the impartial guardian of the treaties”
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The accusation was made by the Andalusian Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, who justified the PP’s attack on the Lithuanian commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevicius, for partisanship in the alleged involvement of Planas’s son: “We have known, it seems, that the one who makes the papeles is the secretary general of the PSOE in Brussels, a member of the PSOE Federal Executive and is the son of the Minister of Agriculture. The one who does the papers and answers is the son of Minister Planas ”, collects the EFE Agency. “Man, green and with handles! Everything is united”, added Sanz before pointing out that for this reason they are not “astonished by the political positions that the Commission itself is having in this matter” and that is why the PP, through its top manager in Brussels, Manfred Weber, called for “neutrality”.
The hoax had already circulated privately in recent days in which the PP suffered a setback after Sinkevicius once again harshly rejected the legislative proposal after meeting with the Junta’s head of the Environment, Ramón Fernández Pacheco, who traveled to Brussels with the aim of convincing the Commission that the law would not affect the protected area. Since then, conservatives have suggested that the European Commission was under pressure, although they did not specify it.
The official in question [en referencia a Luis Planas Herrera] He has disclosed his personal situation in a conflict of interest statement. Thus, the tasks that it has designated take all this into account to avoid any potential conflict of interest, ”explains the European Commission through a spokesperson. This means that the minister’s son is removed from matters that may be related to government files of which his father is a part and, specifically, the case of Doñana.
Brussels thus settles the latest attack launched by the PP, which has raised its tone in recent days with a virulent clash with the European Commission, which it has accused of campaigning for the Socialists. Weber went so far as to accuse Sinkevicius of putting on “the red shirt to campaign for Sánchez” and the head of the delegation, Dolors Montserrat, demanded that the community government refrain from making “partisan communications” about Doñana “in campaign” in reference to the procedure that is being analyzed by the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU.
In the Commission they try to minimize the importance of the attacks, which are part of the Spanish electoral campaign, but what they do make clear is that their work responds to a “strictly institutional” criterion in their role as “impartial guardian of the treaties”.
