Pedro Sánchez has warned against the irruption of “anti-European parties” in institutions throughout Europe, while the Popular Party and the extreme right of Vox negotiate their new government coalitions in autonomous communities and town halls in Spain.
The President of the Government has presented this Thursday in an act in Moncloa the priorities of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union, which starts on July 1, just three weeks before the general elections are held on 23 of July. And he pointed out that since the last time Spain took over this semester as the European presidency -in 2010, under the mandate of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, also a socialist-, countless calamities have occurred, such as the financial crisis, Brexit, the pandemic of the coronavirus or the war in Ukraine, which have threatened “the end or weakening” of the EU project. “And there have also been many anti-European parties that have gained political weight or even a presence in our institutions,” Sánchez warned.
The Chief Executive did not want to expressly allude to Vox, with this alert message, or to any matter of domestic politics in the middle of the electoral process, so as not to give rise to possible complaints before the Central Electoral Board for his institutional interventions. But he has insisted that “the greater representation of anti-European forces is bad news for the whole of the European Union.”
Among other issues, he pointed out, because “if we have learned anything with the pandemic and now with the war, it is that what we have to do to be stronger is unite.” “We have to be much more united as a group of member states around the common challenges that each and every one of our societies faces”, he highlighted. “And having political movements that question or deny these challenges, such as the climate emergency or the joint response to the real threat we have on the eastern front, with a questioning of the borders and European security, is bad news. for the whole of Europe”, highlighted Sánchez.
In the Government, meanwhile, they trust that the government agreements that the PP and Vox are signing in communities and town halls “will pass their bill” to Alberto Núñez Feijóo before the next general elections on 23-J. And they insist that the express pact signed between both formations to govern the Valencian Community, marks the way in other territories and makes it clear that “the extreme right and the extreme right” will reach agreements in all the squares where they add a majority to evict to the left or stay in power. For this reason, they warn that the alleged disagreements between the PP and Vox in the Region of Murcia is nothing more than a mere “little theater”. “They will agree in all the institutions where they join,” insist the socialists.
