The Diplomat
Ciudadanos wants to know how the Government intends to compensate “the reputational damage” that, in its opinion, has been caused to the image of Spain abroad by the second vice-president and leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, with his questioning of the democratic quality in Spain, reports Europa Press.
Ciudadanos’ question comes after Iglesias declared to the newspaper ‘Ara’, that “in Spain there is not a situation of full democratic normality”, aligning himself with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who had made an allusion in that sense due to the existence of imprisoned Catalan independentistas.
Ciudadanos has registered a battery of questions in the Congress of Deputies for the Government to clarify first of all if the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, is going to publicly disavow Vice President Iglesias, and if he believes that it is an “exemption” for his statements the fact that he has made them in the election campaign, as the spokesman Minister, María Jesús Montero, said this week.
In addition, he asks to know if the Government has already made or plans to make an estimate of the “reputational damage” that these statements have meant, and in this sense he asks how it is going to compensate him.
Finally Ciudadanos asks, “Does the Government plan to carry out any action to ensure that no member of the Council of Ministers breaches the principle of unity of action of Spanish foreign action contained in Law 2/2014, of March 25, of the Action and Foreign Service of the State?”.
