The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will begin this Monday with his official trip to India a busy international agenda that will lead him to make up to five trips outside Spain in the next three weeks at a particularly delicate moment internally for him and for the Executive.
In addition to the official visit to India that he will make on Monday and Tuesday at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and that had been preparing for months, according to Moncloa, the calendar has wanted several international events to be added in the coming weeks to the that the president traditionally attends.
Thus, on November 7 and 8 it will travel to Budapest where on the first day the summit of the European Political Community will take place, which brings together EU countries with others from the continent outside the bloc such as the United Kingdom, and on the second day the informal European council under the rotating presidency held this semester by Hungary.
He will then travel to Azerbaijan to attend COP29 in Baku on November 11 and 12. Sánchez has been attending the climate summit in recent years. Thus, last year he was in Dubai and the previous year he traveled to Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), while in 2021 he was in Glasgow and in 2020 Spain was in charge of acting as host after Chile resigned.
That same week, he will cross the Atlantic to attend the XXIX Ibero-American Summit to be held in Cuenca (Ecuador) and where Spain will assume the pro tempore presidency in order to host the event in 2026. It is worth remembering that this summit will also King Felipe VI attends.
Finally, for now, Sánchez plans to travel to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on November 18 and 19 to attend the G20 summit. Although Spain is not a member of the G20, it has been participating in the summits of leaders of the countries that comprise it uninterruptedly since 2009.
Ábalos and Aldama Case
Therefore, Sánchez will spend a good part of the next month outside of Spain, in the midst of an internal panorama complicated by several open fronts, from the progress in the courts of the case involving former minister José Luis Ábalos, the investigation against his wife, Begoña Gómez or the outbreak of the ‘Errejón case’ and its possible consequences in the Government coalition between PSOE and Sumar.
At the judicial level, the filing of the last of the complaints for prevarication against Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who is investigating Gómez, has also just been confirmed, one of them presented by Sánchez himself.
Due to the busy international agenda, Sánchez will not submit to the opposition’s questions in the Congress of Deputies next Wednesday, October 30, and it is likely that he could miss one more control session. The Popular Party has raised its tone after the latest revelations about Ábalos and has formally requested the resignation of Sánchez in the face of the “situation of putrefaction” that in its opinion surrounds the Government and has demanded that Sánchez clarify his relationship with the commission agent of the plot. Victor de Aldama.
This series of trips also occurs while negotiations continue with Junts to move forward with the deficit path and the General State Budgets for 2025. In fact, this same weekend the Catalan formation congress is being held, a marked date in red for the Central Executive, which hopes to unblock the negotiation once the Junts leadership is renewed.
Demands of Podemos and ‘Errejón case’
The Government must face other sources of tension, with Podemos, which has raised its conditions to support the Budgets and the most recent with Sumar, after the resignation of Errejón, amid accusations of sexual harassment.
The purple ones demand breaking relations with Israel and lowering the rental price by law by 40% and have even called for a consultation among their bases to reinforce this position, a gesture that generates concern in the socialist wing of the Government, as confirmed by Executive sources.
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