PP resigns to chair the Vittoria City Council committees he agreed to share with Beldow

The Popular Party decided this Friday afternoon, to resign from the chairmanship of the Vitoria City Council committees that had agreed with it based on the agreement of the meeting of the Spokespersons of the Basque Country Capital Council. It did so after the PNP in a statement denounced the “cynicism” of the People’s Party and EH Bildu when they “agreed” to share commissions. PP denied the existence of such an agreement, and sources from the PSE – the party that holds the mayoralty of Vitória – admitted that this apportionment responded to a tacit agreement in place for years that the eleven city council committees would always be chaired by opposition groups (in this case, PP and EH Bildu), and that it had been endorsed by the Speakers Council. However, the People’s Party has finally resigned to chair it, “in view of the distortion of facts” in the past hours, and therefore, the committees will be chaired by PSE and PNV.

Like the last legislature, the House of Speakers decided that 11 municipal committees should be chaired by opposition groups. These groups are PP, EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos, but this last party was left out of the cast because it did not have enough members. PNV’s spokeswoman in the Consistory, Beatriz Artolazabal, on Friday morning denounced E.H. Beldo’s “mockery” when she “agreed” with the People’s Party. However, sources from PSE-EE, EH Bildu, PP and Elkarrekin Podemos confirmed to Europa Press that the local government had ceded control of the committees to opposition groups for “years”. They added, “It is a law not written or contemplated in regulation, but carried out by uses and usages.” The municipal groups formed the committees at the municipal plenary meeting held on Friday in the town hall.

Asked about it in an interview on Onda Cero, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, was surprised, saying: “The PP agrees with Bildu and does not open the news. The degree of hypocrisy is like that..!” he said. He added: “If it weren’t for the media stations and the economic power behind them… the People’s Party would not really create a political opposition, and because it doesn’t, it appeals to the Sanchezmo and then it turns out that there is a contradiction: the day the campaign ends you reach an agreement with EH Bildu. I hope this opens the newscasts of all TV channels in Spain. It’s very serious… Can you imagine PSOE agreeing with EH Bildu on city council committees?

Bildew’s sources insist there was no agreement and state that since 1999 government groups have not chaired committees and that these have always been divided among opposition groups. They maintain that the decision was made before the Speakers Committee on Thursday (where there are representatives of all the groups, in addition to the general secretary of the City Council) and that “no one has raised a problem and everyone sees it as a good thing.” The same sources indicated that “after that, the meeting was attended in full, and the groups did not express their opinion.”

In a statement, Vitoria’s PP also denied that there was “any agreement, charter or alliance with Bildu to chair the committees”, calling it “a ploy by the PNV and PSOE, who are very nervous on the last day of the election campaign, to try to conceive of something that isn’t right”. And the popular figures confirm that in the meeting of the speakers, all parties gave the green light to presiding over the committees.

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Vitória is governed by the PNV and PSE-EE who, after the May 28 elections, decided Re-issue the agreement they have kept since 2015 to govern together in the main municipal councils and the three Basque councils. This coalition government between the Peneuvistas and the Socialists was supported with their votes by the PP, which prevented EH Bildu from achieving Office of the Mayor of Vitoria and Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, where the alliance apertzal It was the power that received the most votes in the municipal elections and forales of 28 m.