The PP wants Garzón to rule in Congress on the NATO summit and will force a vote

In the last plenary session of control of the semester, which will be missing Sánchez and six of his ministers

MADRID, 26 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP wants the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, to pronounce next Wednesday in the plenary session of Congress on the NATO summit that will be held next week in Madrid and that does not have the support of United We Can.

Specifically, it is the 'popular' deputy Pedro Navarro who has presented a question for the IU leader to explain whether or not he shares the "pride" that, in the opinion of the PP, "it means for Spain to host" this meeting to which they will attend representatives of all the countries that make up the Atlantic Alliance.

The ERC deputy Gerard Álvarez has also registered a question for the Government to evaluate the development of that appointment, but, in his case, he has not specified which member of the Executive wants him to answer.

In both cases, it will be the Executive that decides who will answer the two questions in a control session that will not be attended by President Pedro Sánchez or six of his ministers, including the Foreign Ministers, José Manuel Albares, and Defense, Margarita Robles, who are also hosts of the Summit.

In addition, the vice presidents Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera and those responsible for Agriculture, Luis Planas, and Equality, Irene Montero, have reported their absence to what will be the last control session of the Government in Congress this semester.

The PP will put to a vote next week in the plenary session of Congress, coinciding with the NATO summit that will take place in Madrid, a motion to highlight the division that foreign and defense policy causes between the two partners of the Executive of coalition.

This is a motion as a result of the interpellation that the PP Foreign spokeswoman, Valentina Martínez, directed last Wednesday to the head of the branch, José Manuel Albares. During the debate between the two, the 'popular' stressed to the minister that "improvisation and amateurism" leave Spain in its weakest foreign position and he criticized her for the lack of "sense of State" with which, in her opinion, the first opposition party in foreign policy.

The motion, to which Europa Press has had access, consists of a total of 15 points that, predictably, the PP will request that they be voted on separately next Thursday, coinciding with the closing of the NATO Summit.

Thus, the 'popular' seek Congress to support the results of that forum, the NATO summit, support the organization's missions in which Spanish troops participate, the reinforcement of our presence in all collective security schemes and the development of common defense within the framework of the EU, in complementarity with the Alliance.

In the same text, they advocate promoting that the new strategic concept contemplate the guarantee of the entire national territory, with particular attention to non-peninsular territories, that is, the islands and Ceuta and Melilla.

They also include a point to guarantee "adequate financing of national defense" so that it reaches 2% of GDP before the year 2030, as well as to accelerate the modernization of the capabilities of the Armed Forces and the improvement of the conditions of the personnel. military.

Another of his requests, which will surely be rejected by United We Can, is that it recognize "the role of the United States in defending the security and freedom of Europe." They also demand support for the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO and condemn Turkey's "blockade" of that possibility.

Likewise, the PP proposes that the Chamber urge the Government to continue increasing military support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression, to recognize the role of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, in defending the independence and integrity of his country and to support the decision of the European Commission to consider Ukraine as a candidate country to join the EU.

But the parliamentary group led by Cuca Gamarra takes advantage of his motion to also include claims related to the Sahara, Latin America or the working conditions of foreign workers.

Thus, the PP hopes that the Congress summons the Government to recompose the political, economic and commercial relationship with Algeria, "recovering for this the position of active neutrality with respect to the future of the Sahara", that is, that President Sánchez rectify his turn about the former colony. If this point goes ahead, it would be the fourth time that the Lower House censures the endorsement of the head of the Executive to the autonomy path proposed by Morocco, another of the issues that separates the PSOE and United We Can.

Finally, given the "threats to freedom" that, according to the PP, are being registered in Latin America, the motion calls on the Government to promote a "policy based on the promotion of democracy, the separation of powers and the guarantee of all individual and collective rights and freedoms.