Oviedo, Jan 14 (EFE) .- The deputy secretary general of the PSOE, Adriana Lastra, has refused this Friday to feed a “fictitious controversy” regarding the macro-farms that only “interests the PP in the middle of an electoral campaign in Castilla y León” for ” cover “the cases of corruption that affect him in that community.
This was stated this Friday at a press conference in Oviedo, following the controversy generated as a result of the statements of the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, stating that Spanish macro-farms “contaminate the soil, water and then export this meat from poor quality of these abused animals. “
Lastra has shown that the support of the central Executive to the agricultural and livestock sector “is demonstrated by facts that are published in the Official State Gazette.”
Thus, he has made mention of the new Food Chain Law and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which the Government “has fought and worked a lot in Europe” and which will mean “11 percent more aid.”
“I am not going to feed any fictitious controversy, which only interests the PP, in the middle of an electoral campaign in Castilla y León,” he said following maintaining that, with this, he “tries to cover” what is happening in his party in this community , “immersed in many cases of corruption”, such as “illegal financing with the involvement of Mr. Mañueco himself.”
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