‘Not to the war’. United We Can has recovered the motto that much of the world cried out for in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq by the United States, but this time to denounce Spain’s intervention in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. After the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, announced that Spain will participate in a possible NATO air deployment in Bulgaria, several purple leaders have assured that it is “a serious mistake”. The ministers of United We Can remain silent.
NOT TO THE WAR
– Pablo Echenique (@PabloEchenique) January 20, 2022
With the style that usually characterizes him on Twitter, the spokesman for the purples in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has published a message in capital letters: “NOT TO THE WAR“. The purple leader has rejected that the situation be considered as a dilemma between who is closer to NATO or Russia. “It’s about who is closer to peace and who is closer to war. You did not deceive our people last time and you will not succeed now,” he said, recalling the second invasion of Iraq.
The national co-spokesman of Podemos, Paul Fernandez, has also recalled the slogan that was chanted in the 2003 protests, although to warn the PSOE that Spain “is the country of no to war” and that whoever strays from that path commits a “very serious mistake“. Having made the warning, he has asked the socialists to “think carefully about the steps to take”. “From United We Can we are very clear about this position and we believe that a progressive government could not allow itself in any case attitudes such as, for example, the one that Mr. (Jose Maria) Aznar in 2003“, he has sentenced. The way, he has said, must be to “de-escalate” the tension and “not militarize it”.
seek peace
“Pushing NATO to Russia is a serious mistake for Europe, it threatens peace and it is strategically clumsy: gas, oil, inflation will rise…”, pointed out the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda and Secretary General of the PCE , Henry Santiago, On twitter. Like Fernández, he has asked to “de-escalate the conflict” and “give guarantees of peace for the parties“.
Pushing NATO to Russia is a serious mistake for Europe, it threatens peace and it is strategically awkward: gas, oil, inflation will rise…
Europe must provide measures to de-escalate the US-Russia conflict, avoid militarizing it and provide guarantees of peace for the parties
– Enrique Santiago (@EnriqueSantiago) January 20, 2022
In the same sense, the MEP of United We Can and secretary of the International of the Purples has expressed, Idoia Villanueva, arguing that “encouraging escalation” is a “serious mistake that leads to disaster“. “Enough of uncritical and reckless seguidismo. Dialogue, relaxation and strategic autonomy is the only way to guarantee La Paz”, he has sentenced.
The President’s Responsibility
Faced with criticism from United We Can, the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, was quick to remind his partners that foreign policy is set by Pedro Sánchez. This was agreed in the coalition agreement. “In these moments of so much tension in the world due to the covid and due to the critical situation in Ukraine, Spain is not hiding and the Government acts as the Spaniards want”, he said at an informative breakfast this Friday.