The debate on military spending that landed this Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies has forced Sumar to make official, with light and stenographers, his differences with the PSOE. A shock intensified after the approval in the penultimate Council of Ministers of a new item of 1,129 million euros justified by "international instability."
With the ground prepared by the Popular Party, interested in wearing down the coalition between both partners, the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has confirmed the existing divergence. "We do not share the increase in military spending and that is what is raised in the government agreement," Díaz responded to Cuca Gamarra who, in the reply, has delved into the wound by posing two scenarios: "either she resigns as vice president or she joins the Party." Socialist".
Despite the trap dilemma posed by the PP, Sumar has a well-defined position and management sources assure that they will be firm, "inside and outside" the Government, in their refusal to "multiply" defense spending. Even if the PSOE proposes doing it "through the back door."
The parliamentary spokesman himself, Íñigo Errejón, confirmed the warning given by Sumar to the President of the Government, rejecting the mere suggestion of demanding from the Spanish people "a single sacrifice to feed the war and arms industry."
"We told him that to stop wars, the best thing is not to participate in militaristic and warlike escalations, which always end badly," Sumar's spokesman went on to insist that Spain's "priorities are different," such as stopping the entry of foreign capital. in strategic companies, improve health and education and increase spending on public housing.
What remains to be seen is whether, having had to make these positions official, the hitherto internal debate gains momentum to the point of straining the seams of a very rocky coalition at this start of the legislature.
