Before the diplomatic conflict with Argentina escalated with the definitive withdrawal of the Spanish ambassador to Buenos Aires, the president of the PP warned about the economic consequences of the conflict, which makes him fear for commercial relations.
At an informative breakfast organized by the newspaper La Razón to present the candidacy of Dolors Montserrat to the European Parliament, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who shared a table with the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, warned of the “danger” that Spain, the second investing country in Argentina, is immersed in a “deep crisis” that harms its commercial interests.
For the head of the opposition, the central government, in an attitude that he described as “irresponsible”, resorts “every fortnight” to “montages” like the one that, before the European elections, has led him to face to the Argentine president, Javier Milei, who called Pedro Sánchez’s wife “corrupt” at Sunday’s ultra-right rally in Madrid. An accusation without legal basis for which the Spanish Executive has demanded a public apology.
Feijóo made reference to the “institutional, social and economic tensions” that, in his opinion, are created by the president of the Spanish Government, which Montserrat defined as “smoke screens”, and contrasted them with the alternative that the PP: “Politics is not a fashion in the service of personal egos, but a vocation to serve the general interests”, he concluded in a defense of Spanish exporting companies.
In Congress, the popular speaker went a step further and abandoned the equidistant balance maintained by the PP since the outbreak of the crisis. Thus, Miguel Tellado pointed to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, as the “clear responsible” for the conflict for having “severely insulted” the Argentine president.
According to Tellado, who appeared in a press conference before the plenary session, Puente committed a “mistake” when he attributed Milei’s attitude in some of his public appearances to the consumption of “substances”. In any “modern democracy”, he said, he would have resigned by now.
In Carrer Génova they received the news of the ambassador’s withdrawal to Argentina as an electoral measure and the result of Sánchez’s “ego”: “The foreign policy of a country cannot be decided in accordance with impulses of a single person. The excessive action of the Spanish Government is compromising the position of our companies and our interests, which are subject to the electoral interests of the PSOE”.