Podemos distances itself from sending an anti-missile battery to Estonia and asks "how far" the "war escalation" will go

Echenique considers "very strange" the 'no' of the PSOE to the proposal of Podemos to grant nationality to Sahrawis

MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for Unidas Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has reiterated this Wednesday his party's position against the "war escalation" in Ukraine and has not welcomed the fact that the Ministry of Defense announces that Spain will deploy an anti-missile battery in Estonia from April, similar to the one sent to Latvia in June 2022 within the NATO framework.

Asked if this measure has been discussed in the Council of Ministers and if Podemos supports it, Echenique has indicated that he is not aware of the Council's deliberations because he is not a minister, although he has criticized that at the beginning of the Russian invasion "only" it sent Ukraine "defensive weapons", but later it was decided to also send offensive material, "tanks and now fighter-bombers". "And we don't know where this can end", he has criticized.

In statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, Echenique stressed that Podemos's position is "very clear", and it is "against the escalation of the war in Ukraine, which is leading nowhere".

For the spokesman, the "only" solution to the war is to bet on "diplomatic means and peace." "That is our position and there we also have a political difference with the PSOE," the spokesman acknowledged, after criticizing the ways of the socialists, and a coalition partner, when it comes to reforming the "only yes is yes" law. .

He has also referred to the 'no' of the PSOE on Tuesday in Congress to the proposal of Podemos to grant, under the modality of letter of nature, Spanish nationality to Sahrawis born until 1976, when that territory ceased to be under the sovereignty of Spain.

He has admitted that he thought the PSOE was going to support the bill and has described the vote against the Socialists as "extremely strange". "Approving what was approved yesterday is advancing rights, doing justice historically speaking," the spokesman stressed.

In the vote, the PSOE was once again left alone, as has happened several times since the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, accepted the Moroccan proposal for autonomy for Western Sahara as the best solution to the dispute. The proposal of United We Can, which was supported by the PP and by allies of the Executive, managed to pass its first examination despite the vote against the Socialists.