The spokesperson for the VOX Parliamentary Group at the General Meeting of the Principality, Ignacio Blanco, today asked the President of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, “for more action, more criticism and less self-congratulation in the management of the regional Executive against COVID-19. “He has said that he recognizes errors, but he has not heard a single one described in his extensive speech. In addition, before the media, he has always claimed anticipation to combat the pandemic. But it has not been that way. There was no anticipation to protect the toilets that register the contagion rate above the national average; Nor to protect the residents and workers of the Nursing Homes, which today are the main focus of COVID-19 in Asturias, when they are both fully competent and report directly to the Principality. That has been his only management and it has been disastrous. His management of the general rate of contagion is non-existent and more due to the deadly isolation in communications and the economic depression to which too many successive socialist governments have led us, ”regrets the spokesman.
“But neither have they anticipated measures in Education, neither since the pandemic began, nor to provide all students with technological means and protect the rights of students, nor now to anticipate how the school year will develop; They were not even able to criticize the Royal Decree of essential activities that he described as ambiguous and that it has caused so much damage to Asturias, to the point that Arcelor has applied an ERTE to its 5,500 workers in Asturias. . Its management has been that of the continuity of the central government. Do not sell motorcycles, ”says the spokesman.
Likewise, in his speech, Blanco regretted that "it took the president almost a month to appear before parliamentary groups since the State of Alarm was decreed, which shows that he supports what VOX defends, that autonomous parliaments are expendable." Even so, explains Blanco, “we have sent him a wide battery of questions, to which he has not answered the majority, evading his responsibility, as well as a wide range of measures that, without citing VOX, have accepted some of our proposals. "
Finally, explains Blanco, "we have proposed measures to combat the health, economic, social and human crisis that the pandemic has caused in our region." Among others, the spokesman for the Parliamentary Group points out, “the need to provide sufficient means to all primary care staff and residential centers; enable a procedure for family members to say goodbye to theirs; a lack of confinement already scaled for Asturias; enable the departure of minors or to exercise; launch economic measures such as the restructuring of a part of the administration to provide resources, tax reduction, determined support for the self-employed, SMEs, tourism professionals, as well as the agri-food sector. "
"We trust that the President of the Principality has the opposition, has VOX, even if only to share responsibilities, to date he has not had it at all, so the results of these crises are entirely his responsibility," concludes the spokesman.
