Political Clash in Ponferrada: Accusations and Development Plans

While some live comfortably in permanent conflict, feeding the noise so that nothing changes, identity is not about differentiating oneself from everyone else. One person jumps into puddles and the other makes a mess, insulting and belittling to hide the corruption that plagues them, Ical reports. The mayor of Ponferrada, Marco Morala, opened the speaking sessions and defended that the Bercian character is reflected in 'being the first to work for the future, in proposing sensible solutions, in not creating problems where there are none.' Our Bercian identity is much simpler. Let it be noticed; let's go for it, encouragement and forward, concluded Mañueco. The president of the PP of León, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, spoke before him and dedicated part of his words to a PSOE 'disoriented, adrift, with internal wars, that only knows how to make noise and call for mobilizations, to file complaints hiding behind associations and to distract from their corruption and their zero commitment to this land.' Of his public representatives, he ensured that 'when they have to choose between their land and Sánchez, they always choose Sánchez and they will continue to do so' and of the candidate for the Presidency of the Junta and regional leader he pointed out that 'Carlos Martínez does not know the problems of El Bierzo, Castilla y León is too big for Carlos Martínez' and added that 'he only puts his foot in it. Fernández Mañueco, who pointed out that the PSOE of the Community has as its interest 'to sustain all the absurdities of Sánchez' and Vox Castilla y León the one of attacking the PP wanted to reclaim 'the attitude of those who build every day; others decide to destroy and they do it very well' and assured that it is time to launch a shared vision, the one of placing Castilla y León among the three autonomous communities of Spain. 'It is not just about moving up positions but about marking a direction, setting a goal and saying that the PP not only manages but leads the transformation of our land. It is to serve others, to be close to the problems and needs of people.' 'The PP is not going to consent to it. The president of the Junta and of the PP of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, yesterday accused PSOE and Vox in the Community of 'going together putting sticks in the wheels and tripping up.' It is not that, he pointed out. We will see what happens in the debate on the budgets, if they act with responsibility or are thinking about the electoral return, their partisan interests, he stressed during his intervention in Ponferrada at the closing of an event with mayors and spokesmen of his party in the Bercian comarca. We want to keep improving and the Budgets are the first real step to achieve that objective. They pretend to be facing each other, but they end up united, he said before accusing them of sharing the objective of 'torpedoing the Budgets of the Community and with it the future of our land.' The Government will be on the side of all those who want to bet on this land, he stressed. That, he said, 'in a province in which there are people so disoriented all day long with identity, who do not end up finding it, and that do nothing but give us a hard time with it. If it is not now, it will be at the polls in the month of March. We are more of nuts than of noise, we are of many nuts,' he pointed out in reference to the slogan of the recent campaign launched by the formation. 'We have to offer something different. They are the expression of that collective ambition,' he remarked. Politics, according to Mañueco, seems to have become 'a show of noise, of empty phrases, where truth and lies are confused.' 'I want you to get your hands dirty, that you move full throttle, without exception; to give your all until the end. There we will see each other, or in one place or another. They have put a tutor on him, Óscar Puente, and the remedy is worse than the disease. We have come to dignify the essence of what it means to govern, which means to serve.' 'There will be a medicalized helicopter in the comarca,' he assured among other actions. 'El Bierzo and our land do not rise from the offices or with identity problems.' The regional leader of the PP asked for an active involvement of his officials in the comarca and reviewed some of the investments planned in El Bierzo, where the 2026 budgets foresee doubling the investments up to 50 million.