At the same time as the president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezdefended in Congress the importance of NATO and the need for a elderly spent military Faced with the rejection of its partners, the PSOE voted in the Senate against a PP initiative that urged «Comply with the commitments acquired by Spain with the Atlantic Alliance in the field of investment in defense ».
Despite the vote against the Socialists, the Plenary of the Senate has approved the initiative of the PP, since those of Feijóo enjoy a comfortable absolute majority. The approved motion, which also supports the decisions that affect the position of Spain in Defense subject They have to pass and approve before in the Congress of Deputies, it lacks binding value, but has allowed the PP to show the double face of the Socialists.
The bench of the popular He has shown his surprise with the fact that Sánchez has been «unable to support him to his own parliamentary group»In the Upper House. Feijóo senators accuse the president of being assuming the postulates of his Addits coalition partner, which advocates precisely by the departure of NATO.
Although the group initiative that Capitanea Alicia García In the Senate It is not binding For the Executive, it marks a before and after in the “rearme” policy that the socialist president has defended against Brussels. “You can’t deceive everyone all the time,” they say from the ranks of the PP in the Senate. «In Spain We knew his lies And, now that the moment of truth comes, in Europe they begin to check their shames, ”they insist.
“A president who, with his facts and with his votes, does not demonstrate what he does with his words is not a reliable or credible president,” they argue. And along the same lines, they warn that «minimize importance of parliamentary support », can”harm our relationships with NATO and EU ».
As stated in the text of the PP motion that has finally been endorsed by the majority that forms in the Senate, those of Feijóo remember that the occasions are repeated in which, from the popular group, Sanchez has been requested to go to Europe «with a clear and representative mandate of the Spanish Parliament, and not only with the PSOE position ».
The AFEA letter that the Government has avoided “this debate” and shows that Sánchez has «Minimized the importance of parliamentary support in national security matters ». «In a context in which Spain must consolidate its role as reliable ally», Read in the document,« the lack of transparency and of leadership In defense, our position puts our position on the international scenario ».
PP sources have assured that the refusal of the socialist group in the Senate to accept its motion gives rise to believe that «Pedro Sánchez President of the Government, thinks different from Pedro Sánchez who directs the PSOE in the Senate ». According to these same voices of the PP, the president is defending two confronted versions, one in Spain with his partners, and another in Brussels giving “importance” to the defense. Everything Meanwhile, they say, tries to “keep a Frankenstein government that falls apart at times.”
