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Fernández de la Vega took advantage of the topic of the debate, on the Welfare State, to attack the current Government, stating that Mariano Rajoy's team is attacking a series of social rights based on the need for austerity . In the opinion of the former vice president, “this austerity, by itself, does not reduce the debt, but rather increases it because it does not stimulate economic activity.” .” To finish off his reproaches for the savings policy promoted by Rajoy's Government, he stated that " cuts like those that are occurring in Spain are those that led Germany to the Third Reich." ." Public support for the new general secretary of the Riojan PSOE After the conference, De la Vega held a meeting with César Luena , elected general secretary of the Riojan PSOE at the party's regional congress. held the last weekend of February. Luena was Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba's preferred candidate in said Congress, where two other candidates less favorable to the current Ferraz leadership were presented, such as José Ángel Lacalzada and Luis Alonso. Although the relationship between Rubalcaba and De la Vega was not the best during her time in the Government, the State Councilor has preferred to forget those old quarrels and publicly support the new leader of the PSOE in La Rioja , despite having been promoted by the former vice president.
Iñaki Antigüedad resigned on Wednesday from his position as deputy after Congress sent him an opinion last week from the Statutes Commission of the Chamber , which forced him to decide between his position as a parliamentarian or his Qatar Mobile Number List position as a professor at the university of the Basque Country, not being able to make both responsibilities compatible. Well, as El Confidencial Digital has learned , the Amaiur deputy chose to say goodbye to the Lower House with the aim of preparing his candidacy to become the nationalist left's candidate for the presidency of the Basque Country in the upcoming 2013 elections. The sources consulted by this newspaper explain that Antigüedad had been thinking for a long time about contesting the candidacy of Arnaldo Otegi to run for those elections: “Now he will have more time to prepare, which is why he has not thought about it for a second after having received the ultimatum. congressional". Arnaldo Otegi has opponents and is disqualified The former deputy of Amaiur considers that Arnaldo Otegi generates certain doubts in some sectors of the nationalist left , who see little political experience for the former leader of Batasuna: "He is amortized and is too politically correct, and that is generating internal doubts.
The ETA prisoners think the same , who consider that they are the ones who decide the ways to follow to solve the so-called Basque conflict, "and not someone who has only given speeches." Furthermore, the former leader of Batasuna is subject to a sentence from the Supreme Court that disqualifies him from politics until 2014 . There is appeal on it but, if maintained, it would definitively pave the way for Iñaki Antigüedad. Iñaki Antigüedad, the only deputy with incompatibility of positions The opinion prepared by the Statutes Commission of Congress , and which has precipitated the departure of the Chamber of Antiquity, was sent to the Amaiur deputy last week. According to parliamentary sources consulted by ECD , the Abertzale was the only one of the 350 deputies for whom the aforementioned commission detected incompatibility of positions due to his position as a professor at the University of the Basque Country.Last Monday, the 'popular' senator assured that “ the principles of universality, equity, freeness and solidarity of Spanish healthcare are a utopia ”, in addition to being in favor of co-payment because “freedom is a fallacy”. The PP spokesperson justified these statements by stating that " now that we are not on an electoral campaign, it is time to say what we really think .