The PP expects Sánchez to defend respect for the environment in Chafarinas after the fish farm is promoted by Morocco

Gamarra says that the PP is clear about the neighborhood relationship with Rabat and adds that Sánchez's foreign policy cannot be "unilateral"

MADRID, 6 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, assured this Monday that her party hopes that the Government of Pedro Sánchez will continue to defend "respect" for the environment in the Chafarinas islands after the fish farm promoted by Morocco, in line with the "complaint" that it carried out "months ago" before the actions of companies in the surroundings of that archipelago.

This Friday, the PP deputy for Melilla and spokesman for the Defense of the Popular Group in Congress, Fernando Gutiérrez Díaz de Otazu, filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against the fish farm installed in the vicinity of Chafarinas for alleged crimes against natural resources and the environment of the Penal Code.

At a press conference at the PP headquarters after the meeting of the steering committee, when asked if Feijóo supports this initiative by the Popular Group deputy, Gamarra pointed out that this "is not a new issue" because it is "a complaint that the Government itself also carried out months ago in relation to the actions that different companies were carrying out in the surroundings of the Chafarinas Islands".

"And, therefore, it responds to that action and we hope and understand that the Government will continue to defend everything that has to do with respect for our environment also in that area," said Gamarra, who has not specified whether Feijóo supports and He is aware of that complaint when he was expressly asked at a press conference.

The complaint of the PP deputy for Melilla came four days after the president of the 'popular' met in Rotterdam (Holland), within the framework of the EPP congress, with the Prime Minister of Morocco, Aziz Ajanuch. During that meeting, Feijóo expressed his desire to "rebuild a foreign policy based on trust" and parliamentary consensus, and accepted his invitation to travel to Rabat, something he plans to do in the fall, according to "popular" sources.

Precisely, before the appearance this Wednesday of Sánchez in the plenary session of Congress to report on the change of position in the Sahara, Gamarra has underlined that the PP "has a very clear neighborly relationship with Morocco, a country with which they have "many relations". "But obviously foreign policy is not a unilateral policy of the Prime Minister, breaking a consensus of more than 40 years", he emphasized.

Gamarra has pointed out that Sánchez "does not go voluntarily" to Congress to "report what he has agreed with the Government of Morocco" but that this appearance occurs "at the request" of the PP and after approval by the majority of the groups, something that has described as a "democratic anomaly".

"It is a democratic anomaly that the President of the Government traveled without the approval of Parliament, that he unilaterally broke a consensus policy, that we know nothing of what he has adopted and that we have to take him to Congress," he said. manifested.

It is about, he continued, that this Wednesday Sánchez "reports the agreements he has reached" in Congress. "And not only to those of the opposition but also to a part of the Government, which does not share its policy in relation to Morocco," he added.

On the other hand, Gamarra has indicated that the PP is "working" on the agreement on NATO and State security that Feijóo announced a month ago that he would offer Sánchez, coinciding with the Atlantic Alliance Summit to be held in Madrid at end of June.

"When it is ready, we will transfer it," confirmed Gamarra, who believes that the "increased insult and disqualification" of the PP these weeks shows that what the Government and the PSOE are looking for is "to weaken any possibility of an agreement."

In addition, he has pointed out that the latest statements by members of Podemos about that NATO summit show that the "division" has worsened within the Executive over this international meeting, something that, as he has said, was also seen in the 40th anniversary of Spain's entry into the Atlantic Alliance.