US EditionThe Government Skips the Zapatero Defense Law by Sending the Frigate to Cyprus without “Retrieving Congressional Authorization”
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The Spanish frigate Christopher Columbus, with F-105 side numeral, is the fifth frigate of the class Álvaro de Bazán and the one that has decided to send...
The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, plans to appear in Congress, in principle, at the end of March to, among other things, report on the position...
The PP warns that it must ask Parliament for permission to make that decision.
The 2005 Organic Law of National Defense was passed so that "never again" a government would send troops abroad as Aznar did in Iraq. For operations abroad that "are not directly related to the defense of Spain or to the national interest," the government should "conduct a prior consultation and seek authorization from the Congress of Deputies." More information: The role of the Torrejón Air Base in intercepting Iran's missile over Turkey.
Foreign and defence policy has broken out strongly at the present time in the wake of statements by Cuca Gamarra. The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration of the People’s Party has carried heavily on what it considers to be an opaque drift from the Government of Pedro Sánchez. The central axis of its criticism lies in sending the frigate Christopher Columbus to the vicinity of Cyprus, an area that the popular leader has not hesitated t…
The Popular Party demands that Pedro Sánchez submit to the vote of Parliament the dispatch of the frigate to Cyprus, which the government announced on Thursday, and accuses him of not having as slogan 'No to war', but 'No to Congress', according to PP sources on Friday, while recalling that since 2006 the governments of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy have requested 26 authorizations to send troops abroad on different missions.
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