The PP wants Congress to be able to vote on the suitability of the rescue operations of the Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) and commission, if the Chamber so agrees, a external and independent assessment to check legality in case of suspicions.
This is stated in the motion registered in Congress, to which Europa Press has had access, as a result of the interpellation addressed to the Minister of Finance and Government spokesperson, MarÃa Jesús Montero, in the last session of control of the Executive.
There, the PP criticized the government’s lack of accountability for the rescue fund for strategic companies managed by SEPI, as well as the lack of direction of this public company. And it is that since October 2019, when Vicente Fernández Guerrero was dismissed for his indictment in the ‘Aznalcóllar case’, the body remains no president.
With the motion, the ‘popular’ ask to appoint a president for SEPI within a month and, if not, elevate their current vice president to president, Bartolomà © Lora. They also require the Government to “really” fulfill its control obligations and provide the information requested. Among others, the files of all the operations approved so far to the Finance Commission, with the files that justify compliance with all legal requirements.
And the fact is that the PP wants that, once this documentation has been provided, if the majority of the Commission disagrees with the decision adopted by the SEPI and the Government in any specific operation, it is submitted to an external and independent assessment to determine if it conforms to the law or not.
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It is not the only formation that will take the management of this rescue fund to the Plenary of Congress, since Vox, who also appealed to Minister Montero, has registered a motion to condition the management of the rescue fund and act against a of its operations, the aid granted to the Plus Ultra airline.
In its motion, Vox claims to send the file approved for this operation to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office “in order to open investigation procedures in relation to the alleged commission of crimes in the granting of aid.”
On the other hand, this training also asks “to define precisely the status of ‘strategic company'” in the fund’s regulations, reduce the deadline for the resolution of applications to access aid from six to three months and that the chairman of the fund manager is accountable to Congress every three months for the evolution of operations.
Likewise, it calls for limiting career civil servants belonging to state attorneys, commercial technicians and economists, and state auditors and auditors from entering the management and administration bodies of intervened companies.
Finally, it proposes that the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) prepare an annual ‘ex post’ report on the management of these public funds destined for strategic companies, and that it be sent to Congress within one month of its completion.
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