The PP is asking the acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to fire the two Podemos ministers, who they accuse of causing the diplomatic incident between Israel and Spain with their statements. An incident that the respective countries already consider to be over.
Despite the fact that even the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, considered that the statement issued yesterday afternoon by the Israeli embassy "could have been a little more correct", the spokeswoman of the parliamentary group of the PP and general secretary of the party, Cuca Gamarra, believes that the president should dismiss the ministers of Podemos del Government, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero.
"We are not here to have enemies, but to have the leadership role that Spain has always had with other governments", said Gamarra, who asked the members of the Government to be "more cautious" in the public statements they make, because Finally, the Government of Spain "again embarrasses our country, and this is the worst time for a diplomatic conflict".
According to the number two of the popular, in a conflict like the one that exists at the moment, "equidistance is not worth it" and it is necessary to condemn the terrorist attacks committed by Hamas against Israel, a country that according to her "has every right to defend itself from the terrorist attacks it has suffered from a terrorist movement such as Hamas, but, logically, within the framework of international legislation".
Gamarra holds Sánchez responsible for what has happened, and believes "that any member of his Government should be disauthorized and terminated immediately" whose statements "lead us towards a diplomatic conflict like the one we are experiencing".
In addition, the popular leader reproached the acting president who "has been able, in these five years, to squander the credit in international politics and in foreign policy that Spain has always had", and that is why Sánchez should worry - if
The popular advocates for Sánchez to "bring order" to his Government, so that events like the one on Monday are not repeated. "What interests us the least now is a diplomatic conflict", he assured.
In a slightly more measured tone, the leader of the popular formation, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, expressed himself, demanding that the acting President of the Government "bring order" to his Executive, but at the same time he also criticized the statement of the Israeli Embassy.
For the popular leader, when a country "is in a shock like Israel is" the worst thing that can be done "is enter into a diplomatic conflict with this country". Feijóo warned that the statement from Tel-Aviv "could have been a little more correct", but this does not take away from the fact that "the mess that the Government has and the break in the matter of international policy of the Executive is already a classic" of Spanish diplomacy in recent years.
According to the president of the PP, "when a country has a conflict and when a country is attacked by a terrorist organization, equidistance is not worth it", which is why he lamented the "diplomatic problem with Israel".
The leader of the Popular Party attributes the dissonances in the coalition of the Central Executive to the fact that Sánchez "needs the votes of Sumar and Podemos, which are decisive for him to continue as president of the government".
Of course, he warns that the loser is "Spain's international prestige" and "Spain's leading role in the international community". "In other words, we lose the Spaniards because of the political mess that exists in the government in a notorious way and now also in a rude way", he finished.
The leader of the PP made these considerations after a conference at the Metafuturo forum, organized by Atresmedia. Feijóo addressed the matter in response to reporters after the event concluded, in which he spoke about some of the PP's economic proposals, such as lowering taxes, and other issues such as amnesty and self-determination .
