The PP keeps the hand to the government to agree on the response to Trump’s tariffs: « We are going to be there » | Spain
The tone of the PP with the Government of Pedro Sánchez has changed drastically in the last 48 hours. Donald Trump’s tariff shock has also caused a shake in Spanish politics and, after months of opposition without barracks, the popular have Hand on the Executive Progressive to agree on a “country” response to the trade war of the US President. This Thursday, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo crossed the unity that had their rapid reflection in a meeting held in La Moncloa between the Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, and his team, with the economic managers of the PP, headed by the Deputy Secretary Juan Bravo. After that meeting, the Chief of the Economic Area of Feijóo has held this Friday the hand laid to the progressive government to agree on a unitary response to Trump’s tariffs, provided that the Executive takes care of the open link in the meeting. « If the government maintains this information link, we are going to be there, » Bravo said Friday. « If there is collaboration and information, we will be there. »
In a very different tone than the PP, the Vice -Secretary of Economy of the popular has grateful to the Minister of the Body, the Secretary of State for the Economy and the General Director “the time they dedicated to the PP” on Thursday afternoon. « President Feijóo asked us to give us information, the government summoned us in the afternoon and is something different from what it has been doing, » said Bravo, also recognizing that the Moncloa picked up the glove of the PP leader. « We are facing a PP that will act with a sense of state in the face of a matter that is of a state, » said the Vice Secretary of Economy of the PP in statements to journalists in Seville. And it has gone further: « We are going to collaborate with the government, not with Sánchez, but with the government. »
The PP received yesterday at the meeting of more than an hour and a half in the Moncloa that the response plan of Spain, which in the morning had presented Sanchez in an institutional statement, is still “embryonic”, but the popular are willing to provide their proposals and agree on the measures with the Executive. Bravo has insisted on asking the Government to speak with the presidents of the Autonomous Communities, while the directors will be seen at the Sectorial Conference of Commerce that the Executive will convene. « We have to go hand in hand with the private sector, the Autonomous Communities, the Government and the main opposition party, » insisted the leader of the PP.
However, despite these initial calls to the unit, distrust between the government and the PP remains very deep. In La Moncloa, although they tend their hand to seek an agreement against Trump, they insist that the PP « has to choose » because it cannot maintain its alliance in autonomies and their budget pacts with Vox, which defends at all times the US president, with a resounding criticism of the tariffs imposed by the Republican leader. “The PP has to decide if it goes to the PPE positions and He moves away from Vox or remain tied to ultra -right, ”they point out in the Executive.
In his speech, Sanchez did not carry the inks as other times against the PP, and asked to « all go to one », because « Trump’s tariff attack does not discriminate against ideology », but at the same time he made a very ideological speech against the extreme right and the values that are behind the decision of the president of the United States and that supports Vox in Spain. In fact, body will make a round with the spokesmen and exclude Vox, a clear message also to the PP. This Friday, although without talking about « Apartheid”A Vox, as Feijóo described it, Bravo has also defended that the Executive should not exclude the extreme right of his conversations.
Feijóo, who launched motu proprio The proposal of a “country” strategy before the tariff war, always moves between the pressure of the hard wing of his party and Vox, both contrary to agree with the PSOE, and that marks the pitch. Proof of this was that this Thursday, while the leader of the PP held out a state strategy, Isabel Díaz Ayuso unmarked the possibility of understanding shooting at the socialist president. The PP leader took, on the other hand, to load the inks against Vox, which he accused of « antipatriot » for defending Trump, although a day before he had defended the agreements of his regional governments with the extreme right to carry out the budgets.
The precedents of months of a dog’s face between the PP and the government – including other matters of state, such as The increase in military spending– They invite skepticism, but, however, this time there is at least an approach that has begun with a very different melody than usual.
