Yolanda Díaz reaffirms that she is not in favor of raising military spending and asks for "calm" for the PGE: "The position is clear"

It also asks for reflection to face the negotiation of the next public accounts with serenity

MADRID, 4 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has remarked this Monday regarding the option of increasing military spending that her position is "very clear" and well-known, when in March she already showed that she was not in favor and made explicit her commitment to prioritizing investment in health , education and research.

In this way, he stressed that he also asks for reflection to address the debate on the General State Budgets for 2023 with "serenity", "calm" and the "necessary tranquility".

"The position, I think, is well known on this matter. It is very clear and I have expressed it several months ago," the also head of Labor pointed out in statements to the media upon arrival at the event 'A Minimum Vital Income Oriented to Inclusion', questioned about her position of raising the military budget after the NATO Summit and the call by the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, for United We Can to reflect on supporting this measure.

On March 15, Díaz stressed that the confederal space has a "difference" with the PSOE in conceiving that raising the defense budget is not a priority, although he respected the position of his coalition partner.

"We believe that the priority is precisely to increase the budgets for research, education, health and other matters that are of special interest in a crisis that we are suffering as a result of the war," he explained then.

Last week United We Can already advanced that its position is not to support this increase in the arms output. In this way, the Minister of Consumption and leader of IU, Alberto Garzón, already said that it was "clear" that they would maintain his position on this matter after the NATO summit.

Last Saturday he warned the Socialists that the left would make a "very serious mistake" if it assumed the "reactionary" and "conservative" security model of the right based on "more weapons and tanks", given that the problems of the social majority will not be resolved with more military budget.

"It's not about Manichaeism (...) it's about knowing what framework each one is in and a government and a policy of the left cannot buy the framework of the right, because at that moment we are condemning ourselves to defeat, it is It's that simple," emphasized Garzón.

The Minister of Social Rights and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, said that Spain "does not need more tanks or weapons" and aspires, in view of the negotiation of the next General Budgets, to convince the PSOE in this regard and asked her partner of Where will the money for social improvements come if military spending rises?

The discordant voice within United We Can was the head of Universities and members of the commons, Joan Subirats, who said last Friday that "it is justified" to assume more military costs in the face of the increase in international threats and risks that, in his opinion, the Ukraine war.