The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Wednesday in the plenary session of Congress that the Council of Ministers will recognize Palestine as a State next Tuesday, May 28 after agreeing on the decision between the two parties that make up the Executive and “echoing the majority feeling of the Spanish people.”
The Chief Executive made this announcement after delaying it “a few days” to coordinate with other countries such as Ireland and Norway, which will do the same on the same date. Both countries have made the same announcement at the same time through their prime ministers, Simon Harris and Jonas Gahr Støre, respectively.
Sánchez has justified the recognition of the Palestinian State by the “terror” and “hatred” that, in his opinion, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is sowing in Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian territory and that, from his point of view , puts the two-state solution “in serious danger of being unviable,” thus fulfilling the promise that the Government would proceed to recognize the Palestinian State before the month of July.
During his appearance, Sánchez recalled that Netanyahu has continued with the “destruction of Gaza” and has stressed his commitment to an “ambitious and coherent” foreign policy with the values of Spanish society, a “pacifist” people that expresses its rejection of the “Gaza massacre.” “The Government is aware and consistent with the pacifist sentiment of the Spanish people,” she stated.
“Netanyahu continues bombing hospitals and schools and punishing more than a million boys and girls with cold and terror, to the point that the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court has requested his arrest,” recalled the head of the Executive, for whom he It has become clear that “Netanyahu does not have a peace project for Palestine”, because “his offensive will only perpetuate hatred, worsen the security prospects for Israel and project an unviable future.”
Sánchez goes to the Lower House for the first time to give explanations about his wife’s businesses after the PP’s accusations of alleged influence peddling.
Furthermore, his appearance in the Lower House comes in the midst of the open diplomatic clash with the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, precisely due to the Latin American president’s accusations and insults to Sánchez and his wife, Begoña Gómez.
Sánchez goes to the plenary session of Congress at his own request to explain the last extraordinary meeting of the European Council and at the request of the PP to explain three issues: the conclusions in relation to an agreement with Gibraltar, the tour of several European countries to gather support for the declaration of a Palestinian State, and to report on the investigation opened into alleged cases of corruption that affect his government and his personal environment.
Furthermore, Sánchez’s appearance is held a month after he reflected on whether it was worth continuing in Moncloa and the chamber is thus reactivated after the break due to the Basque and Catalan elections.