An international respite in the middle of the siege of national policy. The President of the Government will face this week and the one that comes an agenda full of foreign policy commitments that will allow him to take distance from the crisis that threatens the PSOE and the Executive on account of the scandal around Santos Cerdán. After the case exploded fifteen days ago, Pedro Sánchez has found in the clash with Donald Trump and in the negotiation with the Atlantic Alliance the opportunity to take some air and find a slit to introduce another issue of political discussion outside of corruption. And those commitments outside will also save you drinks such as last week in the control session.
This Wednesday, in fact, the foreseeable opposition offensive will have to blur among the rest of the executive members because Sánchez will not be in the hemicycle. The president, traveling in The Hague, has managed to go to that transcendental appointment with an important triumph under his arm. The agreement with the NATO general secretary so that Spain makes its own decisions regarding military spending and is not forced to achieve as ambitious objectives as 5% of GDP that the president of the United States intends to impose on its drift of war escalation.
After the Council of Ministers, the president traveled to the Netherlands to go directly to the opening dinner with the Kings, where he agreed among many other leaders with Donald Trump himself, which in the previous hours had publicly criticized the attitude of Spain. “NATO has a problem with Spain,” he said with respect to the Spanish government agreement with the Atlantic Alliance to link the expense in defense of objectives and capacities, instead of a specific percentage of GDP. According to Spain, this percentage will be 2.1%, although according to Mark Rutte, NATO general secretary, Spain will have to spend more, up to 3.5%, to reach the objectives.
The US president made statements in the Air Force 1, the presidential plane, on the way to the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “They have a problem with Spain, there is a problem with Spain, Spain does not agree. Which is very unfair to the rest,” he said.
In the middle of the storm that raises over Pedro Sánchez, his party and his executive for the political crisis unleashed after the alleged plot of corruption that Koldo García, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, few more attractive scenarios, there are today for the Moncloa than that of a direct clash with a political character like Donald Trump. A asset that the president is willing to play during the NATO summit next to the disparity of criteria with the Routte himself, absolutely delivered to the thesis of the United States.
Folded to the interests of Donald Trump since he returned to the White House, his adulation level has been evident in the messages that he has sent a few hours before starting the Hague Summit and that the US president has published through screenings on his social network. “You have achieved what no other US president could have in decades,” he said in the messages that sources from the organization have given for good and in which he congratulates him for his “decisive action” in Iran, as well as for the agreement to shoot military spending up to 5% of the GDP of the allies.
“Congratulations and thanks for your decisive action in Iran, it was truly extraordinary and something that nobody would have dared to do,” Routte begins. “It gives us all security,” he says about the attack on nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic. A follow -up that Sánchez is the opportunity that his rejection of that road map still reaches greater echo.
Aznar and Feijóo, another opportunity for the PSOE
Meanwhile, in Spain the PP Pisa the accelerator of the offensive against the government convinced that the political crisis faced can end up knocking it. But the braking step of that strategy ended up becoming another oxygen ball for the socialists. First José María Aznar and then Alberto Núñez Feijóo again encouraged the suspicions about the Spanish democratic system and about the counting of votes of the last general elections. A thesis that served the government and the PSOE to put the focus on the radicalization of the Spanish right.
“Regarding the accusations we have heard, both Mr. José María Aznar and the opposition leader, clearly in those words what I see is a strategy that consists of sowing doubts about the elections. And this is very serious. This is called Trumpism. And this is not to accept the democracy of your country, this is not to accept the electoral results,” said the spokeswoman for the Executive, Pilar Alegría.
For his part, the spokesman of the Socialist Group in Congress, Patxi López, criticized that Feijóo commits the “irresponsibility” of launching the “barbarity” that the PSOE could rise the last general elections and has demanded that it present “evidence” in this regard or of the contrary asks “forgive” and resign as leader of the opposition because it has become “a serious problem for the democratic system”
López threw into the leader of the PP that “he joins any occurrence” and remarked that with this attitude it makes it clear that “who commands in the PP is the binomial” formed by Aznar and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “Follow Aznar in his questioning of the cleaning of the elections in the country that is an example of transparency, cleaning and neatness in their electoral processes is of irresponsibility and absolute recklessness,” denounced the socialist spokesman.
To curl the curl, Feijóo added to his speech that Pedro Sánchez launched the project “more divisive Spain has had”, the “farthest from general interests” and “the most harmful to our nation we have met in democracy.” “I would also say in predemocracy,” he added in the line of what Vox already pointed out months ago to place the Sánchez government below the valuation that the governments of the dictatorship deserve even.
UN ANFRRUD
The President of the Government will appear on July 9 at the Congress twice. After the pressure of the parliamentary groups, both of the right and of their investiture partners, the socialist leader will first make an intervention on the cases of corruption that affect their party and will dedicate a second plenary session to account for the agreements of the European Council and the NATO summit.
Although Sánchez initially had formulated a request for appearance before the lower house to address all matters jointly, finally the Board of Spokespersons at its meeting on Tuesday decided to separate the issues so that there is a specific full on corruption, as some investiture partners such as Republican Esquerra or the Basque Nationalist Party had claimed.
The two plenary ones will be held consecutively on the same day, on July 9, the first one that for Agenda Sánchez could go to Congress. First he will give explanations about the scandal of his former secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, and all the information of the Koldo case, and in a second full he will address his meetings with the rest of European leaders and also the NATO meeting in the beech that is held this week.
Because before, next week, Pedro Sánchez will host the UN Summit in Seville. From June 30 to July 3, the IV Conference on Development Financing will take place at a time when development aid is being questioned and trimmed and in which the countries of the South demand a new world financial system in which they are taken into account.
The Conference is organized by the Office of Financing for Sustainable Development (OFDS) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DAES), in collaboration with the Government of Spain, in its capacity as host country, and with other associated organizations, donors and interested parties. From the appointment the commitment of Seville will come, a 38 -page document and adopted by consensus that civil society has already made it clear that it does not consider “ambitious” sufficiently given the international situation.
