Sánchez: “Sound politics that defends the general interest has triumphed in Congress”

The Government does not leave a single occasion to claim that it has the support to end the legislature and in the process put pressure on the PP for having voted against the energy decree and another large package of measures approved today.

From Quito, where he continues his official four-day trip to Colombia, Ecuador and Honduras, Pedro Sánchez has cast a wedge this Thursday in a protocol speech with the president of Ecuador, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, to talk about Spain and claim his majority against to the no of the PP.

"Today in Congress, common sense and sound politics that defend the general interest have triumphed," the President of the Government has claimed from Ecuador.

Sánchez expressly thanked all the groups that have supported the Government's initiatives with broad support,

There were no questions, which is why Sánchez has not responded directly to the offer that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made this Thursday before journalists asking to meet with the president to discuss new measures.

But during an informal conversation with the journalists on the plane last night he already made it clear that the problem is that the PP is in the

as was the case with his predecessor, Pablo Casado, and that even the change in the leadership in his opinion has been for the worse, so a meeting between the two leaders does not seem close.

Sánchez claims that if Feijóo wants to seek an agreement he could also call, as the president did when he was leader of the opposition with Mariano Rajoy.

Sánchez is very upset, above all, with Feijóo's attitude in maintaining the blockade on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, and it seems that the distance between the two politicians is increasing at times, although it is never ruled out that there will be a meeting if it occurs some kind of rapprochement between the teams.

The president is taking advantage of his Latin American trip to reinforce Spain's presence in a continent where more and more China and even Russia are trying to steal space from traditional investors such as the US and Spain.

In Ecuador, the trip is different from that in Colombia, the previous stop, because it is not a progressive politician from the new wave of the Latin American left such as Gustavo Petro who presides over it, but rather a classic conservative who today vindicated before Sánchez his policy of privatization of some sectors still in progress. state hands.

"Here the State acts like a father who sees how his children are hungry and has a gold watch, what he will do is sell it to feed them," summarized Guillermo Lasso to justify his policy.

Here there are no misgivings from the business community for a progressive tax reform like Petro's.

But Sánchez had a special interest in Ecuador because it is an important partner for Spain and also because the president wants to claim his country as a European bridge for Latin America.

In fact, part of the trip is designed to guarantee that these presidents attend the EU-CELAC summit (the body that brings together all Latin American and Caribbean countries) to be held in Spain in 2023. Sánchez presents himself in Latin America as a leader committed to the defense of Ukraine and the political fight against the regime of Vladimir Putin.

Ecuador will be a member of the UN Security Council in 2023, which is why it is also relevant.

"I want to thank, on behalf of Europe and Spain, the resounding commitment of Ecuador in condemning the invasion of Ukraine," Sánchez said in front of Lasso.

The Ecuadorian president,

who has thanked Sánchez for Spain's support during the pandemic with the donation of 1.6 million vaccines, has clearly condemned Putin's war and has said that Ecuador "will raise the flag of peace from the UN Security Council and multilateralism”.

Sánchez now continues his trip to Honduras, a country where the agenda will focus more on Spanish cooperation projects in one of the poorest countries on the continent.