The PP has warned Wednesday that increasing defense spending through “Budget rinses” and “on their backs” to the Cortes It constitutes “a law fraud”, to which the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has replicating highlighting the investment effort that the government has been doing in this matter, taking forward programs despite having the extended budgets since 2023.
The popular deputy Enrique Núñez has questioned the head of the Defense portfolio to clarify how the Executive thinks to manage the investment effort committed in security and defense and “how and when” will proceed when the Armed Forces will be rearred.
Thus, he has claimed Robles a “coherent and lasting strategy” in defense so that investments do not occur through “budgetary rinses and trapantojos.” “The retales are not acceptable, we need clear and executable planninga sustained effort and not a budget patch, “said Núñez.
Núñez has also emphasized the demand that the PP has been making since the debate on defense spending jumped to the forefront: that everything that is decided in this area goes through Congress. Thus, he has affected the intention to do it “on his back” to Parliament. “It would constitute not only law fraud, but a serious historical irresponsibility,” he warned, telling Robles that, as responsible for defense in Spain, “has the moral, political and constitutional obligation to give explanations to this camera “because the increase in spending” will affect other items “, which has not completed.
“Its lack of transparency, its opacity and lack of information This Chamber constitutes a real fraud to national sovereignty, an affront to democracy and an unprecedented institutional anomaly, “said the popular deputy.
And as the PP has been doing in recent days, it has influenced the division within the Government, but also with its main political allies, with respect to this matter. In his opinion, this is the reason why the Executive does not go to Congress, to “Do not bother” the usual parliamentary partnerscontrary to that climb.
For its part, Robles has detailed that Spain currently has a total of 56 weapons programs that suppose an investment of 43,000 million of euros. Of these, 24 are special modernization programs, such as 8×8 Dragon vehicles. In addition, Spain participates in 18 NATO of High Visibility, four of them initiated in the last 12 months, and in 28 EU Pesco projects, of which it leads four, he said.
“We are the first member country for industrial return and the second for led projects and the fourth by national industrial entities that participate in the successive annual cycles,” said the head of Defense, which has also reported that the Defense Industry Crea 270,000 jobs and that Spain has a level of execution of its investments of 99%.
On the other hand, he has guaranteed that Spain will comply with the commitments acquired with NATO and invest more in defense, and has required the popular deputy that the government has not planned a new security strategy because “it continues to conceive security and defense as a public good“, And so it will continue.
For the minister, it is “shocking” that the PP claims to the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who gives explanations about his plans to increase the expense in defense when, in his opinion, the popular did not do the same when they were in the Moncloa.
It is the reproach that minutes before had made to Robles the vice -secretary of Territorial Organization of the PP, Carmen Fúnez, during the control session to the government. “We know those who do not tell: the first vice president of the collision government that aims to subtract and not add (Yolanda Díaz) and we can expect from parties that ask Spain to leave NATO, flee from the press room because they see a flag of Spain and do not condemn ETA,” said the deputy, who also recalled that Sanchez in the past spoke of “suppressing” the Ministry of Defense.
Along these lines, Fúnez has affected the minister that the government speaks of “sense of state” given the usual parliamentary partners of the government and that the Constitution is “jumped from the day they arrived” to La Moncloa.
Thus, he has predicted that Sanchez will do this Thursday “A paper” in Brusselsat the European Council meeting, “for not having passed through this Parliament previously” because “he will arrive empty and tied” because of the partners. “This is the government of the lie and they will deceive their European partners for maintaining the support of its investiture partners,” the deputy has finished.
On its side, Robles, which has reiterated that the Government will comply with the commitments acquired with the partners, and reminded the PP that NATO partners compromised the investment of 2% of GDP in defense at the 2014 Wales Summit, when Mariano Rajoy was president. Like Sanchez, Robles recalled that between that year and 2018, when the PSOE arrived at the Government, Rajoy uploaded the defense spending 0.92% to 0.93% of GDP.
“And they never gave explanations of anything, I tell him because I was spokesman for the socialist parliamentary group, so it turns out a little shocking that you ask for accounts of what did not do“, said the head of the Defense portfolio, who stressed that the Sánchez Executive” complies with the Constitution “and its firm commitment to peace, while appealing to” be all together. “
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