Adding unmarked from the PSOE and voting against European rearmament and NATO exit

The PSOE and Sumar have again shown their differences this Thursday in Congress before a motion on the increase in military spending and the departure of Spain from NATO. The division has occurred following a motion presented by the BNG. Of the various points that included the initiative, Sumar has voted in favour of urging the government to “oppose the proposal of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to set up a fund …

The votes of the Congress of Deputies begin to seem like a quiniela of difficult prognosis. Their lordships mark the 1, the X or the 2 without certainty on the result. Yes, no or abstention. The motion of the BNG, in which the Galician nationalists asked to reject the policies of Donald Trump, yes, but also the increase of the expenditure in defense promoted by the European Union, has become a whole parliamentary chaos. Although with some troubl…

The coalition government has fractured in the first vote in Congress that deals with defense policy and, with this, the lack of cohesion lies bare in Europe...

"We need to speak differently, address our citizens in a different way when we talk about the need to improve security and European defence capabilities."

Verónica Martínez Barbero tried to divert the issue: "Well, we think the first thing we need to be clear about is what we mean when we talk about an increase in security spending."

“I don’t like the term rearmament.” Pedro Sánchez’s words yesterday in Brussels hours before the Spanish coalition of government split into a first and significant vote on the European rearmament plan. A motion propitiated by the Coroneis veterans (coronels) of the Union do Povo Galego, rocky core leader of the Nationalist Bloc Galego. His representative in Congress is Néstor Rego. The proposal put to the vote included the departure of Spain fro…