The Diplomat
The Spanish government is confident that the relationship with the United States will be “broad and deep”, following the inauguration yesterday of the new U.S. president, Joe Biden, and vice president, Kamala Harris.
In his Twitter account, the chief executive, Pedro Sanchez, congratulated the new U.S. leaders, wished them “success” in their administration and expressed his confidence in being able to work with them “for democracy and a more just, sustainable and inclusive global governance.
Sanchez conveyed “Spain’s support in this stage of hope and future” and, in particular, congratulated Kamala Harris, the first vice president in the history of the United States, celebrating that “equality is making its way unstoppable throughout the world. She added that this is “a change of era, not only for the United States, but for all of society,” and remarked, “It’s women’s time!
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, expressed to the journalists, after appearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies, her “great joy” because she considers Biden to be a “president who believes in multilateralism, in dialogue, in the pact, in negotiation, and who represents interests but also values, something with which Spain feels very identified”.
Like Sánchez, he stressed that the figure of Harris “because of what it means,” he said, “of commitment and the advancement of equality” in this country and for “all of us who look at ourselves in some way in the United States.
The minister indicated that, once the Joe Biden government is formed, it will be necessary to start working “to promote a new transatlantic relationship and also closer relations between Spain and the United States.
In this sense, she affirmed that the government is committed “to a relationship that is broad and deep, just as our ties are with citizens, businesses, students and tourists.
Yesterday morning, in an act on European funds, Pedro Sánchez had already referred to the changeover in the White House, pointing out that Biden’s victory “represents the victory of democracy over the ultra-right” and calling on “all democrats” to draw “a conclusion in the form of a warning”: that “the ultra-right finds roots and social support, probably because of discontent over social exclusion”.
“Five years ago,” he said, “we all thought Trump was a bad joke, but now we realize that he has put the world’s most powerful democracy at risk and in question. So that’s one of the lessons that all democrats need to learn.
