Pedro Sánchez has fulfilled the process of informing the Congress about his promise to increase the expenditure in defense, in the context of the peace negotiations about Ukraine and in line with what the European Commission claims. Has done it without … Provide a single fact and when he has abandoned the hemicycle after a few minutes of three in the afternoon – to be directed to Paris, where this Thursday he meets with Emmanuel Macron – he has gone as he had arrived six hours earlier: with a perfect smile, without stopping before the media and without having collected any parliamentary support to his approaches. He has spoken, yes, a plan before the summer (in June he will attend the NATO summit in The Hague, the first with Donald Trump in his new mandate) that he will assume, he said, an important “industrial stimulus.” But without greater concretion.
The president has promised to invest “in security and well -being, in both things.” “Because both, in addition, are necessary and complementary,” he concluded. And he has advocated implementing community financing mechanisms in the image and likeness of those that were carried out during the pandemic. Although on this occasion, he has nuanced, they would not be the countries of the South, such as Spain, the most benefited, but the most east and that for obvious reasons have the Russian threat and the most close Ukrainian war scenario or even on their own border. In short, Sánchez has opted for “a joint, mutual, solidarity response … that brings together the efforts of all member states.” “Because if security is a European public good, we also need to have common resources,” he said.
He has also requested that everything is articulated with a transfers system similar to that of the Next Generation funds, which there are joint purchases, as happened with the masks and vaccines of the COVID-19, and that it is bet on industrial consortiums paneuropeos, to the stele of Airbus. In addition, he has once again defended the creation of a European army “with the same flag and the same interests.” Only in this way, he has argued, “a true last union and peace can be achieved.”
In La Moncloa they admit the difficulty of transferring public opinion that this greatest effort can be undertaken without having cost or counterparts. Without costing “a cent”, as Sánchez has repeated again. But they are confident that adding and parliamentary allies end up accepting the approaches of a president who has even declared “quite proatlantist” in his reply to Alberto Núñez Feijóo. A self -affirmation that, however, has avoided doing the left groups that supported their investiture in 2023.
To the initial speech, of just fifty minutes, he has followed a replica to the parliamentary groups of just over an hour and a half. Almost half of the time has been dedicated to Feijóo. It has been so obvious that the opposition leader has reproached him later, with a click, who had granted him more time than the Spaniards. Again, after a first intervention with an alleged sowing statesman, more institutional, the president has turned to a much more bronch tone against the PP and Vox, to then accompany him with soft words to his allies.
Feijóo has asked him to submit any decision on defense to Parliament, which takes the budgets to the lower house and that, otherwise, call early elections. A message, the latter, which has served Sánchez to once again explain his intention to finish the legislature – then, in the control session, he said that he will present the state accounts this year or “the one who comes” – and to remind him that there are six autonomous communities governed by the popular with their extended budgets.
“We are going to invest in well -being and security, in both things, because they are complementary”
Pedro Sánchez
President of the Government
The president has pointed out that his predecessor, the popular Mariano Rajoy, has already promised to raise the expense in defense of two percent of GDP and that he did not ask the Parliament for permission to do so, but Feijóo has clarified that he used the budgets, approved by his government regularly between 2011 and 2018, until just before the motion of censure with which Sanchez overthrew him. Then he has brought up the “cruel and illegal” Iraq war that José María Aznar dragged to Spain and of course, has tried to match PP and Vox by deciding both, according to him, “collaborating with oligarchs of arm high”, in a clear allusion to Elon Musk, the owner of X and one of the main advisors of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Round trip messages
His relationship with the American president has been the trick with which Sánchez has attacked the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, after he has accused him of trying to “terrorize” the Spanish population with “ridiculous” and “unlikely” threats. The right -wing leader, who has reloaded the inks against the Alliance of Popular and Social Democrats in Europe, has again pointed to Islam as the real danger to the West. Sanchez has demanded to condemn United States tariffs, the forced export of Venezuelans promoted by Trump and the blockade of sanctions to Russia by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. Then, Abascal has chosen to go down to mud and questioned him for the public money that the PSOE has supposedly spent on “whores, coca and saunas.”
The dispute has been diluted when it has begun to answer the rest of the parliamentary arch and that its deep Atlantist feeling has been attacked by the spokespersons of adding, Verónica Martínez Barbero, ERC, Gabriel Rufián, Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua, and Bng, Nestor Rego, who have directly requested the departure of NATO. Even the hitherto leader of the PNV in Congress, Aitor Esteban, in his last intervention before assuming the reins of the executive of his party, has questioned whether the Atlantic Alliance is still in force, after the possible search for new alliances by the United States. Only with Ione Belarra, his former minister, has shown some hardness: «We have increased 10,000 million the expenditure in defense and you were in the government. Then I didn’t call me lord of war, and now? The Executive hopes to have at least temporarily placed a debate that will inevitably resurface.
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