The president of the PP, Aberto Núñez Feijóo, has responded to the diplomatic crisis between Argentina and Spain, maintaining a certain equidistance between the Government of Pedro Sánchez and that of Javier Milei.
“Neither the Government that began by insinuating that the Argentine president consumed substances nor Milei calling Sánchez’s wife corrupt are in the space of moderation that I claim for politics,” said Feijóo in the presentation of the PP program for the European elections. .
Although the popular leader has lamented that the “noise” that occurs in Spanish politics often does not allow the projects defended by the parties to be heard, the topicality of the conflict unleashed by Milei at the Vox rally has prevailed this Monday in his speech , in which he had no choice but to refer to the controversy after outlining the axes of his European proposals.
Feijóo does not feel represented by the “verbal escalation” that is taking place, he stated, since it is a drift that, from his point of view, “leads to nothing.” However, he has equated the Spanish and Argentine governments, which he holds equally responsible for the situation.
For the head of the opposition, both Sánchez and Milei “do the same thing” and, instead of respecting the rules of diplomacy, they have initiated an “inappropriate overacting” of democratic rulers. In this sense, Feijóo has demanded explanations from the Argentine Government, but “in other ways and in another way”, thereby distancing himself from the reaction of the Moncloa, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, who has called for sine die consultations with the ambassador in Buenos Aires.
“Sánchez is not the State,” said the president of the PP, who has accused the leader of the PSOE of thinking precisely that about himself and has reproached him for giving “lessons in diplomacy” when his Government did “the same thing that he denounces today.” ”, in reference to the allusions of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, to the “substances” that could explain the behavior of Javier Milei in some of his actions.
The 48 million Spaniards, Feijóo stressed, cannot be “kidnapped” by a way of doing politics in which the PP, which defends “ethics, moderation and serene dialogue”, does not feel reflected, he concluded. And he has called for turning this situation around in the European elections on June 9.
