The Government will stage in Congress its division on military spending | Spain

Subtract from Congress the debate of the new defense expenses items, As the government has already announcedwill not prevent the executive partners from staging in parliamentary headquarters their discrepancies on the matter. It will be in purely symbolic votes, but that will serve to continue feeding the political debate. The first occasion already arrives in this week's plenary, forced by two initiatives of PP and BNG, scheduled in the order of this Tuesday, which will be voted on Thursday. Both will give rise to being shown against the European Rearme Plan, in contradiction with the positions of the Socialists.

Neither of the two initiatives, a non -law proposition of the PP and a motion of the BNG, will have any practical effect, because they are equivalent to a mere declaration of the Congress. But, in the case of adding, they have forced to maintain contacts among all the formations that integrate it to avoid dissonances in the voting.

The BNG initiative is the clearest and collects with forcefulness the traditional positions of the antiatlantist left. The six points of the motion that will defend before the plenary deputy Nestor Rego expressly reject the plan to rearm the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, endowed with 800,000 million euros, as well as « any increase in military spending » and claims the departure of NATO Spain. Sources of adding anticipated that they will present some amendment to clarify the text, if it is possible to agreed it, but that they will vote in favor of their substantial content, including rejection of the increase in defense budgets.

The different adding groups do not fully coincide in their diagnosis on the new geopolitical situation, from the unequivocal rejection of NATO and the rearme by IU even the most nuanced positions of the group of vice president Yolanda Díaz. But its main leaders have had conversations in recent days and their parliamentary group met on Monday to close a unit position.

The deputy of the Catalan Commons Gerardo Pisarelón anticipated, at the entrance of an act in Congress and before the group meeting, which beyond the amendments that are presented “in the background” share the declaration promoted by the BNG. Pisarello advocated a Europe that builds « an own security model, autonomous and disconnected from NATO. » But he rejected the « warning that is being imposed » and stressed that EU countries already They dedicate more resources to armament than Russia and China.

Before the motion of the BNG, the proposal of the PP will be discussed, whose content reveals the clear intention of provoking differences between the parliamentary base of the Government. The popular, in addition to expressing their support to Ukraine, speak of « defending the transatlantic link » with the United States and advocates « fulfilling the commitments acquired by Spain with the Atlantic Alliance related to the investment in defense as soon as possible. » The Socialists have not yet ruled on this initiative, while Sumar advanced their negative vote.

The PSOE has not announced its position, until the parliamentary group meets on Tuesday morning, on another proposal that can place the government in an awkward situation. In this case it is a proposition of the Junts law to facilitate the exprés eviction of those who occupy illegally housing. The initiative coincides with many of the positions expressed by national rights: it expands the powers of the judges to order an eviction in 48 hours and reinforces the intervention of social services to prove whether the vulnerability situations that the occupants can allegate are real.

As has already happened with fiscal policy And other aspects of housing, the text is likely to unite the allies of the PSOE on the right – junts and PNV – with PP and Vox, which would guarantee its taken into consideration in the face of the criteria of the left. Even in that case, the majority of PSOE and adding on the table would allow them to indefinitely block the elaboration of the law.