The PSOE votes against resuming the relationship with Argentina

Presented by the PP on September 13, the PNL urged the Government to address three issues: (1) Request approval from the Government of the Republic of Argentina for an ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain; (2) Strengthen the Spanish presence and support the work of companies in our country to increase the volume of their investments and commercial exchanges between both nations; and (3) Recognize the importance of bilateral relations between Spain and Argentina.

The vote, which was by show of hands, resulted with 170 votes in favor by the PP and Vox, with 169 votes against the PSOE and 5 abstentions.

Once finished the Foreign Affairs Committee in which this PNL was debated and voted, the PP celebrated that the Government had come to “reason” and decided to appoint a new ambassador in Argentina, five months after the withdrawal of the previous head of mission as a result of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has “very thin skin” and chose to put “his ego” after calling the Argentine president, Javier Mileiof “corrupting” his wife.

But what draws attention, however, about the result of the vote is that the Government announced a decision of the Council of Ministers to which it knew that its own party was going to vote against in the Congress of Deputies.

According to sources from the Socialist Parliamentary Group consulted by ABC, what surprised them is that the PP would maintain that NLP on the agenda and did not withdraw it, knowing that the Government had made that announcement.

They also say that they were offered a transactional amendment that the PP did not accept, and in which the Government was urged to address three issues: (1) Request the Government of the Argentine Republic please an Ambassador of Spain, reiterating the importance of mutual respect between the institutions of each State, as corresponds to two countries united by deep historical, cultural and economic ties; (2) Continue strengthening the Spanish presence and support the work of companies in our country to increase the volume of your investments and commercial exchanges between both nations; and (3) Recognize the historical importance of bilateral relations between Spain and Argentina and continue promoting them in the political, economic, cultural and cooperation spheres between both countries.

From the PSOE they explain that in the explanatory statement of the PNL there was a “string of insults and attacks on the Government that they were “unacceptable.”

The explanatory statement, however, were the PP’s opinions on the diplomatic crisis in Argentina, which had nothing to do with the three points to be debated and voted on, which were clear. The most important of all, the placement for a new ambassador, had already been done by the Government, so from The PP does not understand that the PSOE voted againstwhen it was a decision that had just come out of Moncloa. “It was Kafkaesque,” they told ABC.