BRUSSELS, June 10 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has accused the Popular Party this Friday of “disloyal” and “irresponsible” for requesting the appearance of President Pedro Sánchez in the plenary session of Congress to explain the crisis with Algeria.
“There are times when we are the Government and the opposition, but there are times when we have to be Spain. And this is a time when we have to be Spain,” said the Foreign Minister in statements to the press after meeting a little more half an hour in Brussels with the Vice President of the Commission and Head of Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis.
In this sense, he has branded as “enormous disloyalty and irresponsibility” everything that is not closing ranks “at such a complex moment” for Spain and has regretted that in the face of Algeria’s “unilateral” decision, the European institutions share the analysis of the Executive Spanish but the opposition has another.
The PP has requested this Friday the appearance of the President of the Government in the plenary session of Congress to explain the crisis with Algeria and account for what the ‘popular’ consider a “disastrous foreign policy” of the coalition government. Something that Albares has rejected when pointing out that what has happened is a “unilateral decision of a third state”.
“I can only judge it from the disloyalty and irresponsibility with Spain”, he has criticized to point out that the debates on foreign policy have to take place within Spain and not through third parties.
This request to appear comes just two days after the head of the Executive appeared in plenary session to account for the effects of his new position on Western Sahara, a debate in which he received criticism from the majority of the parliamentary arch for his “unilateral” turn, breaking a “parliamentary consensus” of 40 years ago.
Algeria announced on Wednesday the suspension of the good neighborly treaty with Spain, in force since 2002, while announcing the freezing of direct debits for foreign trade operations of products to and from Spain as of this Thursday. The Algerian authorities justify the measure by the Spanish Executive’s recognition of the Moroccan plan on Western Sahara.
