Brussels The independence movement has put a lot of effort into the internationalization of the Process and in making its arguments reach everywhere, especially in the European Union. However, during these months of investiture negotiations, based in Brussels, both the sovereignist formations such as the PSOE and Sumar have rather opted for secrecy and not to do much haste to ensure that the agreements come to fruition. Now everything will have to be discussed in the plenary that PP, Cs and Vox have managed to force in the European Parliament for this Wednesday. The Spanish right has increased the pressure in recent days in the bubble of leaders, diplomats and journalists in the Belgian capital to try to get European public opinion to position itself against Pedro Sánchez’s investiture pacts and the amnesty law. Once again, they recycle another of the slogans that sounded the most in Catalonia before 2017: “Europe is watching us”.
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The debate, which is expected to start at 4 p.m., is titled Threats to the rule of law as a result of the government agreement in Spain. With what goal? The popular MEP, Dolors Montserrat, says that the intention is to “trigger the alarms” of the European Commission, which “should keep a close eye on the Sánchez government and be ready to act immediately”. In the same vein, the president of the parliamentary group of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, highlighted this Tuesday that this discussion is the “most important” of the plenary and said that he is in “shock” because the left did not want it to be held .
However, at the time of truth, beyond convincing the European Commission, which will be present in the Eurochamber during the discussion, these kinds of debates end up being led mainly by Spanish MEPs who take advantage of the media attention to let go haranguing in a state key and extracting political income from it. In fact, no binding resolution or anything that could have practical effects comes out of it.
The PP wants to win in the European institutions what it has not won in Spain”
Iratxe García President of the parliamentary group of social democrats
Along these lines, the president of the Social Democratic parliamentary group, Iratxe García, has criticized that the PP “wants to win in the European institutions what it has not been able to win in Spain”, and ERC MEP Diana Riba has regretted that the right Spain uses the Eurochamber “for its day-to-day political work in the State and not for European politics”.
On the other hand, Ciutadans already considers the mere fact that the European Parliament – in which liberals, the right and the far right have a majority – agreed to debate the amnesty and has sent a letter to the socialist MEPs as a victory other states of the European Union so that this Wednesday they “raise their voices” against the agreement in which “Together and Esquerra have given up nothing and Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE everything”.
Citizens also hung up the medal a few days ago when the European Commissioner for Justice, the liberal Didier Reynders, who is in good tune with the Spanish right, sent a letter to the Spanish government in which he asked for information on the amnesty law even though at the time it had not even been processed. Beyond PP and Citizens, Vox also does not want to waste the opportunity and this Wednesday its president, Santiago Abascal, will travel to Strasbourg to hold a press conference from the European Parliament.
In this way, the three parties of the Spanish right agree in the desire to get acolytes in the European institutions or, at the very least, sell electorally the “Europe is watching us” in the crusade against Sánchez and the amnesty law .
2023-11-21 19:47:20
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