Good morning. We start the narration of the political news on Thursday, marked by the meetings that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will maintain in the Moncloa with the leaders of the rest of the parties of the Parliament to inform them of the international situation and the decisions taken at the Brussels summit last week, in which a plan to reinforce the European defense and security was approved and the support of the bloc to Ucrania was reaffirmed. as well as the intention of raising 2% of GDP the expense in defense. In addition, appointments should serve as a previous one for the European Council on the 21st.
According to the agenda publicized on Wednesday by the Government, Sánchez plans to speak to the leaders of the parties of the “situation and security needs of Europe, the EU and Spain”, after the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House and its approach to the Vladimir Putin regime to the detriment of European interests.
The first to go to the Moncloa, at 10.00, will be the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has already expressed that he expects little from the meeting. The appointment with Feijóo is scheduled to last 30 minutes, by 20 of the rest of the spokesmen. They are not cited or that of Vox, a party with which the president does not want to know anything, nor add, which is part of the government.
Thus, at 10.30 it will be the turn of the ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián and 30 minutes later, by Miriam Nogueras (Junts). After a break, so that the groups can go to vote to the lower house, at 12.00 Sánchez will meet with EH Bildu spokeswoman, Mertxe Aizpurúa – the first time that this formation goes to a meeting in the Moncloa in democracy – and the 12.30 with Aitor Esteban (PNV). Already in the afternoon, the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, (15.00), the BNG spokesman Néstor Rego (15.30), that of CC, Cristina Valido (16.00) and that of UPN, Alberto Catalán (16.30) will come.
