In the last plenary session of control of the semester, which will be missing Sánchez and six of his ministers
The PP will ask this Wednesday the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, if he does not feel “pride” for NATO Summit that is being held these days in Madrid and that questions United We Can and, in addition, will force a debate on the Government’s foreign policy that will lead to a vote on Thursday.
Specifically, it is the ‘popular’ deputy Pedro Navarro who has presented a question for the IU leader to explain whether or not he shares the “pride” that, in the opinion of the PP, “it means for Spain to host” this meeting they are attending representatives of all the countries that make up the Atlantic Alliance.
It will be in the last session of control in the Congress of this period of sessions, a Plenary to which not even the president will attend Pedro Sanchez nor six of his ministers, among them the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and Defense, Margarita Robles, who are also hosts of the Summit.
In addition, the vice presidents Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera and those responsible for Agriculture, Luis Planas, and for Equality, Irene Montero, have reported their absence to what will be the last control session of the Government in Congress this semester..
Show the division of the Government
Likewise, this Wednesday a PP motion will be debated to expose the division that foreign and defense policy cause between the two partners of the coalition Executive, a text that will be put to the vote on Thursday.
This is a motion as a result of the interpellation that the PP Foreign spokeswoman, Valentina Martínez, addressed to Albares last Wednesday. During the debate between the two, the ‘popular’ stressed to the minister that the Government’s “improvisation and amateurism” leave Spain in its weakest foreign position and he criticized the lack of “sense of State” with which, in his opinion, , acts the first opposition party in foreign policy.
The motion, to which Europa Press has had access, consists of a total of 15 points that, predictably, the PP will request that they be voted on separately, coinciding with the closing of the NATO Summit.
Thus, the ‘popular’ seek Congress to support the results of this forum, support the missions of the organization in which Spanish troops participate, the reinforcement of our presence in all collective security schemes and the development of common defense in framework of the EU, in complementarity with the Alliance.
Increase defense spending
In the same text, they advocate promoting that the new strategic concept contemplates the guarantee of the entire national territory, with particular attention to non-peninsular territories, namely, the islands and Ceuta and Melilla.
They also include a point to ensure a “adequate financing of national defense” so that it reaches 2% of GDP before 2030, as well as speeding up the modernization of the capabilities of the Armed Forces and improving the conditions of military personnel.
Another of his requests, which will surely be rejected by United We Can, is that it recognize “the role of the United States in defending the security and freedom of Europe.” They also demand support for the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO and condemn Turkey’s “blockade” of that possibility.
More military support to Ukraine
Likewise, the PP proposes that the Chamber urge the Government to continue increasing military support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, to recognize the role of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, in defending the independence and integrity of his country and to support the decision of the European Commission to consider Ukraine as a candidate country to join the EU.
But the parliamentary group led by Cuca Gamarra takes advantage of his motion to also include claims related to the Sahara, Latin America or the working conditions of foreign workers.
Thus, the PP hopes that the Congress summons the Government to recompose the political, economic and commercial relationship with Algeria, “recovering for this the position of active neutrality with respect to the future of the Sahara”, that is, that President Sánchez rectify his turn about the former colony. If this point goes ahead, it would be the fourth time that the Lower House censures the endorsement of the head of the Executive to the autonomy path proposed by Morocco, another of the issues that separates the PSOE and United We Can.
Finally, given the “threats to freedom” that, according to the PP, are being registered in Latin America, the motion calls on the Government to promote a “policy based on the promotion of democracy, the separation of powers and the guarantee of all individual and collective rights and freedoms.