Elías Bendodo placed security as a priority for Alberto Núñez Feijóo and accused Pedro Sánchez's Government of having left the State Security Forces and Corps in a "complete abandonment", a criticism he linked to the lack of personnel, resources and advances in the province of Malaga.
The deputy secretary of Regional, Local Policy and Electoral Analysis of the PP, candidate for Congress for Malaga, conveyed that message in a meeting with union representatives of the National Police and the Civil Guard, which was also attended by Mario Cortés and the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre.
As he explained, in the province of Malaga there are not even 6,000 agents between both forces, while, according to the union data he cited, the National Police would need to cover 20% more staff and the Civil Guard maintains 500 vacant positions.
Bendodo added that, despite the fact that prisons are full, there are modules in Archidona prison that cannot be opened due to lack of officials. The complaint, he said, is not limited to the number of agents, but also to the absence of minimum tools to work with guarantees.
Police stations, barracks and a plan that, for now, remains incomplete
The popular leader maintained that in eight years of government by Sánchez and his partners "practically no progress has been made" in the implementation of National Police stations and Civil Guard barracks. The PP, he affirmed, will work in that direction and also in studying the declaration of the province as a Zone of Special Singularity and the recognition of both forces as high-risk professions.
Bendodo defended that the PP's government program includes measures to improve security with more personnel and more resources, although he reproached that the reinforcement of the Costa del Sol Plan for the capital of Malaga was activated "without saying how many agents" it incorporated. "A clear plan is needed, with resources, with material, with vehicles," he insisted, while leaving unspecified what exact endowment the Executive that comes out of the polls proposes.
In the final stretch of his speech, the PP candidate for Malaga also alluded to the alleged corruption cases from the Sánchez era, citing the UCO's entry into the Court of Accounts to determine the origin of donations to the PSOE and the investigation by the European Prosecutor's Office for alleged fraud with European funds in the purchase of anti-abuse bracelets by the Ministry of Equality. With less than 20 days until the November 29 elections, he closed his message with an appeal to put an end to that succession of scandals.
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