Among the sayings that Pedro Sánchez recited on Wednesday at Congress, he could be that there is no evil that for good does not come. The great blackout of April 28 has opened the controversy on Spanish energy policy and placed the president under another fierce walk on the right. But at the same time he has presented the government with a beneficial side effect, as could be verified this Wednesday during the torrential appearance of Sánchez in Congress. The almost seven hours of discussions, just with a five -minute break for urgency relief, left the serious divergences on defense spending between the socialists and their allies.
Sanchez suffered Alberto Núñez Feijóo accusing him of “bringing the nation to a generalized collapse” already Santiago Abascal deploying its catalog of expletives, which included the qualifiers of “macarra” and “disturbed”, as well as a farewell to height: “Lárse, lord of the calamities”. In return, he was able to put deaf to the reproaches of his partners and surrender thoroughly to one of his favorite sports, to riddle the PP leader, to whom he predicted: “Based on announcing apocalypse that never arrives, you will not become president of the Government.”
Sánchez’s parliamentary appearance was scheduled since before the blackout and focused exclusively on the increase in 10,471 million euros of defense expenditure. The matter threatened, even more severely than on other occasions, the stability of the government, and the president intended to solve the procedure with a debate to save a vote in which he would have those of losing. Until the blackout arrived. Sanchez then asked to expand the reason for his appearance and this Wednesday appeared at Congress with a 90 -minute oceanic speech, in which he only dedicated the final third to the defense budget.
The president defended without the least reverse his energy policy based on the promotion of renewables and accused the right of acting as a wolf amateur“Of the” ultra-ups “that direct the electricity. He reluctant so much enthusiasm in exalting the response of the institutions and behavior of citizens on 28-A that started the sneer of Feijóo:” Congratulations on the great blackout, hearing it would be said that the Spaniards are looking forward to it. ”
The PP leader also left defense policy for the end. And he focused more on the form – which does not undergo parliamentary vote – than in the background. “Who has believed to be? Almighty?” He snapped at the president. Feijóo’s criticism turned to denounce that with Sanchez the country suffers “services from third world countries” and in hiding that hides the causes of the blackout: “or does it know or wins time to make a version.” His closed defense of the nuclear ran into a revolution in the replica of the president, which dusted a section of the Feijóo program to the Galician elections of 2020, in which it was marked as a goal to ensure that “100% of the energy consumed in Galicia is of renewable origin”. In that replica, Sánchez recreated for almost 45 minutes shaking the opposition head without pause. He lied from Carlos Mazón’s adventures to Vox pacts, reproached him to intend to “generate a feeling of chaos” and accused him of “not knowing anything about how the” energy “system works.
Unlike the defense policy, the debate on energy was outlined as cohesive for the left. The same ones that frontally reject the rearme adhered to the commitment to renewables and the progressive abandonment of nuclear. This was stated by Verónica Barbero, to add; Gabriel Rufián, from ERC, and Mertxe Aizpurua, of EH Bildu. More to the right, Maribel Vaquero, a brand new PNV spokesman, gave his express support to the government, while Míriam Nogueras, Junts, exhibited his most acidic vein and reconvery to Sánchez: “He has not given a single new fact.” Néstor Rego, from BNG, also fouled more “self -criticism.” Alberto Catalán, from UPN, deplored, as state rights, the “third world image” offered by the country. Cristina Valido, of Canarian coalition, preferred to warn the entire hemicycle: “stop thinking about the next elections to think about the next generations.”
Even aware that it was no longer the center of the debate, the left did not stop reaffirming its censorship to the defense budget, more forceful in the mouth of EH Bildu and more nuanced in ERC. The spokeswoman of adding warned that if another episode is produced like that of the failed purchase of bullets to Israel, her group will “be plant again.” Barbero added that the policy of rearming “erodes the democratic bases of the European project.”
The striking voice was that of Podemos. Ione Belarra accused the President of Writing “one of the blackest pages in the history of this country” and labeled him as “coward” and “necessary collaborationist of Israeli genocide.” There he ran into the red notebook that he made to Sánchez de Hemeroteca. The president extracted an appointment by Pablo Iglesias, favorable to spending more on armament “if necessary to ensure the independence of the country and social and civil rights.” What gave rise to finishing irony: “I don’t think you can call churches Lord of War.”
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