Eduardo González
The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held a bilateral meeting yesterday in Malaga with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, while several hundred demonstrators protested outside against the investiture agreement between PSOE and the Catalan pro-independence party Junts per Catalunya, which will give Sánchez the necessary votes to continue governing and includes the controversial Amnesty Law.
The demonstrators (between half a thousand or a thousand, depending on the sources) cut off traffic in front of the headquarters of the Government Subdelegation in Malaga, where the meeting took place, and, in front of a wide police cordon, began to chant slogans against the “traitor” Sanchez (such as “Spain is sold for seven votes” or “Pedro Sánchez, Spain does not want you”) while carrying Spanish flags (some with the pre-constitutional shield).
“I have met in Malaga with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz,” Sánchez informed through his official account on the social network X. “We have analyzed the progress of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU and issues related to migration and the review of the EU budget until 2027,” he added. “We agreed on the urgency of finding peace solutions in the Middle East and support for Ukraine,” he concluded.
Scholz is in Malaga to participate in the Congress of the PES Party of European Socialists. The meeting, co-organized by the PSOE and the PES, will serve to define the political priorities of the European Socialists and will adopt a resolution focused on key issues for our political family, in the run-up to the next European elections, on June 9, 2024, and will elect its new leadership.
Currently, PES member parties head six EU governments (Spain and Portugal in office, Germany, Denmark, Romania and Malta) and are part of the coalition government in four other Member States (Belgium, Slovenia, Estonia and Luxembourg). In addition, eight European Commissioners are part of this political family.
Pedro Sánchez and Olaf Scholz held a bilateral meeting just over a month ago also in Andalusia, specifically during the third meeting of the European Political Community and the Informal European Council meeting, both held in Granada in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU.
