Sánchez believes that a PP and Vox Executive "would be a great shame" for Spain and Europe

He points to war as his first priority, followed by inequality and ecological transition.

BARCELONA, July 3. (EUROPEAN PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has assured that an Executive made up of PP and Vox "would be a great shame" for Spain and Europe, alleging that the country would lose "many positions and many opportunities."

He said it in an interview in 'El Periódico' on Monday collected by Europa Press, after moving to Kiev this Saturday, the first day of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union. According to the president, Spain sees itself in the EU as a "loyal and constructive partner" that defends interests "from the proposal and not from criticism."

"Spain was a Europeanist and it is a Europeanist not out of necessity, not out of interest, but out of conviction, that we are in the thick of it," said Sánchez, stressing that a government of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal "would be a great shame ".

In this sense, he has affirmed that Spain needs a "pro-European government" and not governments that align with other nations that have "governments openly opposed to the European project."

"That a party like the ultra-right, which openly says no to the 2030 Agenda and also puts it on a poster throwing it away along with the LGTBI or gender equality, can be part of the Government and represent us in Brussels? Well, it seems to me that it would be an unacceptable setback, for our country with everything we have to gain," he added.

Sánchez, has demanded that "any diplomatic negotiation that is carried out" on Ukraine --in his words-- starts from the peace proposal formulated by its president, Volodimir Zelenski, within the framework of the G20.

According to the president, this conflict is his "first priority" at the helm of the EU Council presidency and he has insisted on the European Union's support for Ukraine in the military, humanitarian and economic spheres, which in his opinion is seamless. .

Given the situation in Russia, he has concluded that "there is a division within the Putin regime regarding the evolution of the war and the strategy that is being followed" and he sees no social rejection of the movement in response by the Russian president, whom he has accused of propose an imperialist path and yearn for territorial annexation.

Along these lines, he has considered the war an attempt to weaken the European project and has called for strengthening its integration, which he believes distinguishes the government from "the approach of the right, the extreme right."

The President of the Government has established as his second priority during the semester the social inequality that "a good part of the European nations continue to experience and suffer" and the ecological transition as the third.

Asked about the reform of fiscal rules, he has advocated "finding a path of fiscal consolidation so that public accounts balance" and aligning said regulations with objectives of ecological transition and digital transformation.

He has warned that the electricity market "right now, with the current rules, it does not work, it is dysfunctional", for which he has asked to reform its regulations and promote renewables.

In this line, he has maintained that Spanish economic growth "is fundamentally explained by the good behavior of the foreign sector", especially in the export of services, whose evolution he has described as extraordinarily positive and has been linked to the Iberian exception.