The leader of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado, made reference this Friday in Castilla y León to the latest criticism launched against Spain by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. During the closing rally for the regional elections campaign, Casado said that “Castilla y León is the cradle of Hispanic people, despite Mexico, Zapatero and his businesses with Maduro, the podemitas (of Podemos) who they are with banana dictators who murder, rape and torture. Here we are without complexes, without black legends and without apologizing. Proud to be Spanish”.
Casado, leader of the main right-wing party and opponent of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, did not even mention Andrés Manuel López Obrador by name, whom he referred to as “the one from Mexico”, but dropped the controversy that this year affects the two countries and that has put the relationship between the two on “pause” by decision of the Mexican president. Casado’s statements came during an electoral rally as the end of the campaign that ends with Sunday’s elections to elect president of the autonomous community of Castilla y León and in which the two main formations in the country, the Popular Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers (PSOE) arrive very evenly matched.
This is the second time in a few months that Casado refers to relations between Spain and Mexico, always with some controversy as a backdrop. In October, after López Obrador asked Spain to apologize for the abuses during the conquest, Casado refused to do so and pointed out that both countries are “brothers.” “From Spain we do not have to ask for forgiveness, but to give thanks for a common history that has been, in my opinion, the greatest milestone of humanity after Rome: Hispanic people, on both sides of the Atlantic.” “Thanks to Mexico for the great pride of feeling like a sister nation,” he said then. Another leader of the PP and former president, José María Aznar, was more offensive when referring to the Cantabrian origin of the surname of the Mexican president, which he provoked Morena. The Mexican government party Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) expressed its “resounding” condemnation of Aznar’s statements, saying that they “openly offend” the “history of Mexico and the dignity and memory of its original peoples.”
Until the latest controversy, diplomatic relations have followed the usual channels in recent months. Especially after the granting of the placet to the new Mexican ambassador to Spain, Quirino Ordaz, who had been pending for more than four months. A delay that had caused discomfort in the National Palace of Mexico City.
The electoral campaign of Castilla y León ended this Friday with the landing of all the national leaders of the main parties. Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), Pablo Casado (PP), Inés Arrimadas (Ciudadanos), Santiago Abascal (Vox) and three ministers who took part in the campaign closing ceremonies in Valladolid with the aim of convincing the 23% of undecided voters who, according to The Center for Sociological Research (CIS), is not sure who to vote for this Sunday.
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