The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, explained after the European summit in Brussels that he does not consider it disloyal for Vice President Yolanda Díaz to demand a government crisis unilaterally, following the alleged cases of corruption affecting the PSOE and the EU that have been appearing in the coming days. , he had stated, conciliatory, on Thursday morning in Brussels.
Sánchez appeared after a marathon meeting of the heads of state and government of the EU, who after 16 hours agreed to finance Ukraine with Eurobonds – although they reserved the possibility of using Russian assets later – and postponed the signing of the agreement with Mercosur until January. The president will join the campaign of the , and has tiptoed through national politics in his appearance before the media.
There are no reproaches for Díaz, with whom Sánchez has already met in recent days. There are no names yet on the table to replace the Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, who will be a PSOE candidate in the elections in Aragon. There has been no conversation between President Sánchez and former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero about the rescue of the Plus Ultra airline, which was done “perfectly in accordance with national legislation and the requirements of the Court of Accounts.” Visibly tired after the very long summit, the president gave a very short press conference in which he did not reveal any news about Spanish politics and limited himself to briefly answering the journalists’ questions.
Nor has it provided any news about the Spanish position in relation to Ukraine and the trade pact with Latin America. For Sánchez, “If we have waited 25 years we can wait 25 years and a month,” he said. And regarding the main course on the summit menu, the president stressed that the Twenty-Seven have unanimously agreed on a loan of 90 billion to Ukraine for a period of two years that will be financed with Eurobonds, and that the Union will continue to explore the possibility of using immobilized Russian assets (amounting to 210 billion) later.
Several countries governed by the extreme right opposed this option. Belgium, which concentrates most of the Russian assets, flatly refused. Sánchez has not gone into evaluating whether Spain preferred Eurobonds and the lever of Russian assets, but in his initial intervention he has attacked the attacks on the European Union “from outside and from within”, in relation to the national populists who already sit in the European Councils. And that in the decisive summit on Ukraine they have managed to win the day with that kick forward on Russian assets.
