MADRID, March 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy Institutional Secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, has criticized Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s speech at this Saturday’s Ibero-American Summit for failing to mention human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Something that, it is worth noting, King Felipe VI did.
“That’s what we referred to. Sánchez is brave to attack the opposition and cowardly to denounce the oppressors, he sympathizes with them,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Pons regretted that Sánchez did not defend Spain from the “frequent attacks” from the likes of Maduro, adding that he did not do so because of Petro’s appeal to the “Saharau nation” nor the absence of Brazil and Mexico. “They leave our foreign policy as evidence, weak, naked,” he has implied.
“222 leaders who were expelled and stripped of their citizenship in Nicaragua and Sánchez did not make a single reference to democracy and human rights in his speech. Even Boric, the President of Chile, a Podemos supporter, has denounced what is happening in Nicaragua, but Sánchez and Albares no,” he added.
In addition, González Pons recalled that the Ibero-American Summit was born to defend political dialogue and cooperation, something that Sánchez “missed” in his speech. “32 years later, it is the first time that a Spanish president has ignored any reference to democracy and human rights in his speech. The king saved the dignity of our country,” he said.
He concludes that multilateralism must be effective, not rhetoric of “empty deals”. “The PP will review Spain’s foreign policy and that of actors such as AECID, the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Admin and Public Policy and Red Carolina so that they defend the effectiveness of cooperation without emphasizing the lack of democracy or human rights invisible”, locksmith.