Sánchez and Juanma Moreno Bonilla make a pact against climate change despite the PP-Vox pact

MadridIt is strange to see, but this time it has happened. The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, have shown harmony and collaboration between administrations after the fire in Los Gallardos (Almería). They have even jointly warned of the dangers of climate change, even though Moreno Bonilla has just signed an investiture pact with Vox, which questions the policies that have been applied so far to combat this phenomenon.

"From the State administration, we are promoting measures because the climate crisis is worsening," said the Spanish president, who visited the command center in Turre this Monday. Furthermore, he assured that the necessary resources must be provided to guarantee the safety of those living in sensitive areas. "The climate emergency kills and we must be up to the task," summarized Sánchez, who also promised public funds for the reconstruction of the affected area.

For the Spanish president, large-scale fires are a phenomenon that is here to stay, and Spain is a sensitive place due to its climatic conditions and also its geography. He gave an example: he assured that last year a third of the burnt surface area in Europe occurred in Spain, and this has to do with the climate emergency of the Iberian Peninsula." In short, he has once again put on the table a state pact against climate change.

In turn, Moreno Bonilla took the floor to also denounce the effects of climate change. "It is affecting us very significantly. It is leading us to unknown and very exceptional... explosive situations," he declared. However, despite this, the popular leader has signed a pact with Vox, which precisely questions its existence. This very Monday, the spokesperson for the far-right, José Antonio Fúster, attributed the fires to "eco-fanaticism" and to nature restoration policies. In the agreement they have signed with Juanma Moreno Bonilla, they commit to "reject ideological agendas" in environmental care. In fact, they state in writing that the Andalusian climate change law needs to be reviewed with the aim of orienting measures to be "useful and technically justified" and that they do not entail "costs" or "restrictions" for "any productive sector" in Andalusia.

The leader of the Andalusian PSOE and former minister, María Jesús Monero, took the opportunity to needle the PP for this reason. Also from the command post in Turre, she said that she was

An agreement to prevent disasters if he is president

Although Sánchez has called for a state pact against climate change, this Monday afternoon the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, also visited the affected area and proposed a major agreement on the prevention of natural disasters if he is president. "I hope the coordination between administrations continues. No one can spoil it," Feijóo concluded. Sources from Moncloa reply that the leader of the PP "arrives late" and reiterate the "outstretched hand" to the popular party to sign the state pact so that the fight against the climate emergency "transcends legislatures".