“The problem with flirting with the extreme right is that you end up thinking like them,” Pedro Sánchez replied this Friday from Brussels. And he has done so in the presence of the presidents of the Council and the European Commission, the Belgian liberal Charles Michel and the German conservative Ursula von der Leyen, in the face of the attacks received for the promotion of the amnesty law in Spain for those prosecuted for the process, and its negotiations with the Catalan independence movement, both on the part of the president of the European People’s Party, the German Manfred Weber – with whom the Spanish president was involved in a harsh dialectical clash last Wednesday in the European Parliament in Strasbourg – and on the part of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Together with Michel and Von der Leyen, Sánchez has defended his alert regarding the government agreements of Feijóo’s PP with the far-right Vox, in autonomous communities and city councils in Spain, along the same lines, he has justified that other European conservative leaders, such as the current Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, from whom he has borrowed the aforementioned phrase. “Tusk said verbatim, before being elected prime minister in Poland, that the problem with flirting with the extreme right is that you end up thinking like them,” he noted.
The President of the Government has once again attacked the offensive of Weber and Feijóo in Europe: “It is a mistake to criticize a progressive and pro-European government like the one we have in Spain, with fallacious arguments from the Spanish conservative opposition,” he warned.
