Spain was with Italy the country that received the most European funds from Brussels in the Covid crisis, which left a tragic trace of more than 120,000 deaths and took the economy to the edge of the collapse. Just when the fifth anniversary of the worst health crisis is fulfilled in a century, to which the EU responded with the joint purchase of vaccines and mutual debt, Pedro Sánchez believes that the time has come to make a similar gesture of camaraderie and fraternity, by increasing the increase in defense spending, at another existential time for the European project for the threat of Russia and the loss of the military umbrella of the United States. A solution that most parties that enabled the investiture reject and have left the seams in the government coalition in a very sensitive issue that does not agree to the left. “How are we not going to be solidarity with those who were supportive with us during the pandemic?” Sánchez reasoned to try to overcome the misgivings of his parliamentary partners in the PSOE Congress of Aragon, in which Pilar Alegría has been chosen new territorial leader.
“Those who know me know very well that I really wanted to arrive this day to see you all but especially to say five words: President, welcome to your home. To Aragon, to which your home has always been. We all know, but today, in front of all the companions of Aragonese socialism, I want you to feel it more strongly if possible, ”the minister has received him, the fifth at the controls of a federation such as María Jesús Montero in Andalusia, Óscar López in Madrid, Diana Morant in the Valencian Community and Ángel Víctor Torres in the Canary Islands. The new regional direction has obtained a 93.06% support in a conclave to which Lambán has not attended. Another autonomous president, Marcelino Iglesias, will preside over the Aragon PSOE in a position that until now did not exist. Darío Villagrasa, last secretary of the organization of Lambán and who will be Deputy Secretary General of the Federation in an example of integration. The new organization responsible will be Manuela Berges, who will resign her position in the Federal Executive, in which she entered the Seville Congress of the late last year. “Today on a day of absolute joy for the socialists and sad to [Jorge] Azcón, who does not have any doubt: today the change begins, in 2027 Azcón to the opposition! ”, The first general secretary of the Federation has cried. Alegría won the municipal in Zaragoza to Azcón in 2019, but Albert Rivera truncated the pact that had closed with citizens to govern the fifth Spanish city.
Retrieved the harmony with the Socialists of Aragon, the president of the Government has influenced, to try to convince the different formations to the left of the PSOE, on his recent visit to Finland, a country with 1,300 kilometers of border with Russia that adhered in 2023 to NATO, a step that Sweden also undertook. Precisely the greens have just supported the future German Foreign Minister, the democratian Friedrich Merz, to a constitutional reform that will authorize indebtedness and an expense in infrastructure and defense that could reach the billion euros. An example that in the socialist wing of the Government with which they hope to attract the most reluctant allies in rearma: Spain, with a defense budget equivalent to 1.28% of GDP, it was aimed at reaching 2% committed in 2014 with NATO in 2029, a road map that will accelerate after the new world order that Donald Trump promotes in his return to the White House. “Finland had to give up land, territory, to Russia to be able to get peace, many years ago [a mediados del siglo pasado] What are the Finnish ones asking for, as the letters, the stones, the Lithuanians and other countries that are in Eastern Europe, such as Poland or Romania also ask? Take a hand, help us, because we have a security problem, a certain threat because Putin has been given to border revisionism and is unilaterally annexing, ”said Sanchez before more than a thousand militants and supporters in an act in which the Aragonese Federation has been realized with the Moncloa and Ferraz and has closed the critical stage with Javier Lambán.
The turn of the PSOE of Aragon in the last great congress that was pending before the third phase of the remodeling of the structure of the party with the provincial congresses has been marked by the insistence on a “fair and lasting” peace for Ukraine and the calls to solidarity in which Sanchez has not entered where the rise in spending and defense would go. “We do not want to attack anyone because the European Union is a project that was born for peace, but we are very clear that the only way to guarantee that peace in Europe, at least in our countries, is to raise the capacity of deterrence. We have to improve among all our security because it is Europe who has to protect Europe, ”reiterated the president of the Executive.
Sánchez has pointed to the same requests as the greens in Germany as a possible landing floor for their allies in Congress: “We have security needs particularly different from those that may have in the east and east of Europe. We can have hybrid attacks and we will have to improve our cybersecurity capacity and in our protection of critical infrastructure, and as we have seen in Valencia we will have to face in a much more effective way to everything that has to do with civil protection emergencies derived from climate emergency ”. Although that is the exit that the Moncloa is confident to have found, the government is to continue approving that increase in the Council of Ministers, and not in the Courts, pulling credits and the contingency fund of an amount of hundreds of millions of euros.
To the war in Ukraine, the new front open by Trump is added with its tariff war, to which Brussels has responded with a barrage of 26,000 million euros and taxing selective products from Republican states to make a dent in the Trumpist electorate. A challenge that the president of the United States “the nations that are enclosed are not made larger, become smaller. It is never good to open trade wars. It seems little successful to open a commercial war with the world’s first commercial block, which is the EU, ”said Sánchez.
“If tariffs impose us, of course the European Union will respond together and united and protect our workers, companies, farmers, farmers and the entire productive sector as we did during the pandemic, the energy crisis, the inflationary crisis and the Putin wars in Ukraine and also in the Middle East,” said the secretary general of the PSOE. In contrast, Sánchez has lashed out at the right and the extreme right, in which Santiago Abascal has erected in the Spanish politician closest to Trump. “Vox is the voice of his master, and the PP stopped being a moderate right, like the right in Germany, to be a right absolutely guarded by the extreme right. That is why they are silent, because they are very strong with the weak, but they are servile with the powerful, ”he has matched the classic right with the Spanish ultras.
Cantabria’s new executive only gets a 64% support
Far from suturing the wounds left by the primaries, the Cantabrian Federation showed that it has not overcome the deep division left by the process, fracticide between two candidates Sanchistasin which the new regional address obtained the support of 64% of the delegates (125), while 47 abstained and 23 voted against. “Once the regional executive is chosen, it is unity because what we have in front of it is to win the elections in 2027: the municipal, the regional and again the generals,” said Sanchez as a message in the act that was held early in the morning in the Paraninfo of the University of Cantabria, where the tension between the two sectors was indisged.
Casares won the organic process with 1,246 votes (52.4%) compared to 1,117 (47%) of Zuloaga, which, unlike Javier Lambán in Aragon, did attend the Regional Congress. A very narrow margin that anticipated a federation with less than 3,000 militants and departed in half that the new general secretary must manage. “We have been early but it has been worth it, here is the PSOE of Cantabria. Thank you for your emotion, your illusion and dreams that we start today. Thank you for this congress, the most participatory and open in the history of the PSOE of Cantabria,” he started his marriage speech, in which he thanked the work of Zuloaga and other general secretaries. “You are the best that the PSOE has and we will always be indebted,” he said. Sanchez was gift with the outgoing territorial leader and his relay. “I would like to thank Paul’s work, they have not been easy years, but the Law of Science, the Law on Democratic Memory and the Management of Pandemia, are hits that a PSOE has been commanded Zuloaga and it is fair to recognize that it is always an asset for the party,” he dedicated to the former regional vice president of the coalition government that the regionalist presided over the regionalist Miguel Ángel Revilla. ” grateful that you would believe in me. I have always seen in Pedro a commitment to the public university and is a brilliant parliamentary speaker, one of the best deputies of the parliamentary group, “he presented to Casares.
