IU opens the door to add the government if internal does not cancel the Bala Purchase contract to Israel | Spain

Unprecedented crisis in the coalition government between PSOE and add. Only one day after Yolanda Díaz’s group criticized the increase in military spending included in the Executive Security Plan, the group of Vice President Yolanda Díaz has once again raised the voice on Wednesday against the decision of the Ministry of Interior to continue with the purchase of 15 million bullets to Israel. A contract valued at 6.6 million euros that the Executive had agreed with an Israeli company, but that had decided to cancel October 24 as a result of the Gaza War. This Wednesday, the agency led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska has recognized that he has rectified and announced that He moved on with the purchase. The decision has opened an unparalleled conflict with its main governing partner and the United Left, part of the Díaz group, has opened the door for its five ministers to leave the government. « It is a flagrant violation of the agreements and, therefore, we demand the immediate rectification of that contract and, secondly, the immediate appearance of the minister to explain what has happened, » Diaz emphasized shortly after the news is known. In a particularly severe tone, the federal coordinator of IU, Antonio Maíllo, has gone one step further. « IU will not tolerate any item to finance a genocidal state, » he warned. « It is not enough to ask for explanations. That path we are not going to travel. The PSOE has opened the greatest crisis since we have a government in 2023, » he added.

Asked about the permanence of his training in the Executive, the IU parliamentary spokesman, Enrique Santiago, has recognized that they are « in the face of a serious contradiction. » « On the one hand, we want Spain to remain the only progressive coalition government. It is the best shield of protection in our country. If in the end you have to make a decision not to continue participating in the government, we will try that in Spain there is not a right -wing government. » In any case, he added, « the decisions will be made collectively and it is not we who are breaking the coalition agreements, » he reiterated in relation to the PSOE.

An hour before, add had sent a statement in which they denounce the change of interior course on the acquisition of weapons at a time they consider key. « The suspension of arms trade with Israel is not only a fair measure in the context of the genocide that the Palestinian people are suffering, but also in line with the international treaties on arms trade, » reads the text of the party. « The commitment of the Government of Spain with the Palestinian people must be absolute. There are no nuances in the middle of a massacre whose responsible have an international arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, » they add in the statement.

During his speech, Santiago Ha also refuted the arguments of the State Advocacy, has come to iron in offering the legal services of the United Left and the parliamentary group of adding to cancel the contract with Israel and has indirectly request the resignation of Marlaska and Margarita Robles, responsible for defense, if they are not able to terminate the contract. « We believe that according to the resolutions agreed by Spain, there are sufficient legal arguments so that Spain does not become an accomplice of a genocide for transferring resources to a state that breaches the resolutions of the United Nations. Not six or 6,000 million can justify that Spain falls to being an accomplice of a genocide, » he said.

The Head of Economic Affairs of the Civil Guard A lot of 15,300,000 bullets awarded last 16 9 mm caliber to the Israeli company Guardian Defense & Homeland Security SA, subsidiary of the Guardian Ltd Israel International Group, for 6,642,900 euros. The award was published on the Public Sector Hiring Platform on Good Friday, in the middle of Holy Week.

After knowing last October the award of this contract, Interior said that he had initiated the procedure to cancel the purchase. « The Spanish government maintains the commitment not to buy or sell weapons to the Israeli State since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza, » said the department directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska in a note. « Although in this case it is an acquisition of ammunition, the Ministry of Interior has initiated the administrative procedure to cancel said purchase, » he said then. However, Interior has resigned to revoke the award of the contest to the Israeli company after the State Advocacy warned that, given the advanced procedure, it could face having to pay a strong compensation to the winning company, according to sources of said department.