<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The president of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, accused President of the Government Pedro Sánchez this Thursday of having gone “against the meaning and spirit of NATO” and of having provoked “an unprecedented clash between Spain and the European Union” and “a forced and self-serving confrontation with Trump” to cover up his corruption “for five minutes.”</strong></h4> “We are facing the purest Sanchismo, Sanchismo in its purest form, a farce,” Feijóo declared in Brussels after attending the European People's Party (EPP) Summit. According to the PP leader, this "farce is over" after all the countries of the Atlantic Alliance realized that "Sánchez is a liar" for publicly distancing himself from the agreement with NATO minutes after signing it. According to Feijóo, Sánchez "has voted for and signed the agreement to increase defense spending by 3.5% plus 1.5%, that is, 5% over the next ten years." "The paper takes into account what is put on it," he asserted. "It doesn't matter whether he tried to deceive his partners in Spain or his European partners," he warned. In Feijóo's opinion, Europe must pursue the path of unity to become a global player, and "putting it at risk is irresponsible." "Yesterday, Sánchez fictitiously broke that unity," he insisted. The President of the Govenment, he continued, "has decided to entrench himself behind the 2025 investment figure of 2.1%," without specifying "any target" for the coming years and without explaining "the 13 billion euros he needs from a budget that doesn't exist and that hasn't been approved by anyone." "Mr. Sánchez is a genius: he's capable of achieving with 2.1% what other countries require with 5%," he added. "Spain is much more than a precarious president," continued the PP leader, who asked that "on the other side of the Atlantic, the precariousness of the President of the Government not be confused with the Spanish productive sectors." "Yesterday, there was doubt that Spain was a serious country and a credible partner," but "today, no one disputes that, unfortunately, Mr. Sánchez is neither a serious nor a credible partner," he denounced. "We will have to repair the reputational and institutional damage that Sánchez has caused to Spain" by offering "the European Union a decent policy, a policy of cleanliness, certainty, and security," he concluded.
