The announcement was made by the president of the government, the socialist Pedro Sanchezlast Wednesday, when, turning his position up until now, he informed the Congress of Deputies that Spain would follow in the footsteps of other European countries and would send offensive material to the “Ukrainian resistance” in the face of Russian attacks.
“An error”, lambasted the spokesman for the leftist formation Can in the lower house, Paul Echeniquewho thus summed up the position of the minority partner of the Socialists: we must bet on diplomacy, and sending weapons would not be “effective in ending the conflict”.
Rivalry within the coalition deepened on Sunday Ione BelarraSecretary General of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, when she charged against “the war parties”.
“The war parties tell you to send weapons; I ask you to think about the most effective measures to really help to the Ukrainian men and women. You have to bet everything on diplomacy, “he remarked in an act of his party.
“Diplomacy has not been lacking, what has been left over is aggression” from Russia, Sánchez replied the same Sunday at a socialist event, whose government sent four planes with grenade launchers, cartridges and light machine guns over the weekend.
It is a new collision between the socialists and Podemos, who have clashed recurrently since they formed a government in Spain two years ago (due to the state budgets, the labor reform, the price of electricity…) although until now the coalition has continued go ahead.
Pacifism “has an important symbolic tradition” on the left and it helps Podemos to “charge itself with arguments” and differentiate itself from the socialists, Pablo Simón, professor of Political Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid, explained to AFP.
The particular thing on this occasion is that the space of Podemos, which has five ministers in the Executive, has been divided in the face of the conflict in Ukraine: the communist Yolanda Diaznumber three in the government and a virtual candidate for Podemos in the next elections, joined the Socialists.
“Spain’s foreign policy is led by the Prime Minister”settled last week the also Minister of Labor.
For Pablo Simón, behind the break there is “an internal issue of Podemos itself, where there is a growing and undisguised malaise” between two sectors: the one led by Yolanda Díaz and another led by traditional figures from Podemos, such as Ione Belarra or Irene Montero, Minister of Equality.
Díaz is “in favor of not generating so much noise in the relationship with the Socialists because she is beginning to put together her candidacy for the next general elections”, in less than two years, on a platform to which she intends to add “independents, something that she does not That other sector of Podemos likes absolutely nothing,” says Simón.
The big problem for Podemos “is that they depend on Yolanda Díaz, because she is the most popular candidate, she is well-known and she is the only one who can electorally widen her space,” says Pablo Simón.
In an election “without Yolanda Díaz as a candidate, it would most likely be a marked setback for Podemos,” another radical left minister warned in an article on Saturday, Alberto Garzonwho repudiated that Díaz is suffering from “asphyxiation” by sectors to the left of the Socialists.
For now, analysts rule out that the Spanish government is in danger.
Source: Ambito
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