The PP clarifies its rejection of the pact in defense asking to meet with the military dome | Spain

In his speeches from La Tribuna, and in the halls of Congress, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his team struggled Wednesday to remove any possibility of a state pact For the increase in military spending. « The PP is not the stumbling block for a pact in defense in Spain, the stumbling block is your government and you are, » the PP leader snapped to the President of the Government in Parliament. « If what the PP intends to be its auxiliary partner when the others fail him, forget it, » he warned Sánchez, and his team later remarked that, in this context, the PSOE « cannot count on the PP in any case. » However, despite all those messages, and in the middle of a strong internal debate, The PP balances not to appear as responsible for blocking a state consensus that also comes from Brussels and has the support of the European Popular Party. At the same time a meeting with the military dome to obtain information on the future defense plan, with the JEMAD (Chief of Staff of the Defense) and the top responsible for the three armies, as the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has emphasized this Thursday.

« Blank checks cannot be given, » he warned number two of the PP in an interview in Antena 3, in which he has asked the Jemad « to explain how that defense plan will be developed » that « be voted in the Courts. » This Wednesday, the PP leader slipped that petition in Congress, when he claimed information on how the increase in military spending that Sánchez took, in line with the European consensus after the change in the world order. « The Jemad and those responsible for the three armies have to sit with the first party in Spain and specify what is the scope and content of what we are going to do, » said the popular leader.

The request of a meeting with the military dome opens a slit in the rejection of the PP to the State Pact with the PSOE, but the popular try to circumvent the Sánchez government pretending a direct interlocution with the army, when the country agreements are usually forged between the majority forces represented in the Parliament. Asked today about whether the PP minimally opened the door to a consensus of state, Gamarra has replied: « We are a serious, state party, and that is part of the European PP. The MEPs of our supports our support for rearme plan that the commission poses. The big problem is that here in Spain it does not concrete. »

The PP address admits, therefore, that its position is complex because it rejects a consensus with the Sánchez government for an issue, the increase in military spending, which they share in the background and is promoting the president of the commission, Ursula von der Leyen, which belongs to their own political family. Von der Leyen, the top leaders of the European Popular Party and the Spanish PP, with Feijóo at the head, will meet at the end of April in Spain, in the PPE congress held in Valencia.

Asked if I would support that Spain sends soldiers to Ukraine, Feijóo has avoided responding, and has appealed to Sánchez: « What we have to do, and yesterday we approved it in the Congress of Deputies and also in the Senate, is to comply with the resolutions that we approve in the General Courts and it is to present the Defense Plan to Congress and present the proposal to finance that defense plan to be discussed and approved in Congress. » Feijóo has criticized the president who, in his opinion, « has come to not want to submit to the Chamber, but in the end the Chamber voted and voted yes to the presentation of the Defense Plan in Congress and yes to the approval of the budget (of that plan) also in Congress, » he said, he reports Javier Casqueiro.

Feijóo PP balances too, since the popular They are immersed in a strong internal debate on this matter, as the country published. The Foundation promoted by the leader of the popular, reformism 21, proposed in an editorial note an « state consensus » with the PSOE in defense matters, while sources of the Madrid PP warn that the bases of the party « will not buy » an agreement. This Wednesday, in the halls of Congress and while the popular leader moved an agreement with the president, some popular leaders admitted in private that « if Sanchez brings a serious plan, Feijóo could not vote no. »

The PP is perceived uncomfortable in the face of the greatest fundamental debate facing the European Union, as demonstrated that the popular celebrate an interparliamentary meeting in Seville this weekend in which they do not plan to deal with the challenges of the new world order. The PP interparliamentary program is organized at five table debate tables, and in no one is planned to address defense spending. The popular will focus their discussion, on the other hand, on other issues, such as « the great challenge of housing », « Taxation, employment and autonomous », « the defense of democratic values », « the agri -food challenge » and « guarantee well -being in a society in constant change. »