Santo Domingo / Madrid (EFE) he does not miss meeting with some Latin American rulers and, in this way, “not paying homage to apprentice rulers of autocrats.”
From Santo Domingo, where the meeting is being held, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, asked the leader of the PP (centre-right) to immediately and publicly rectify his criticism of attendance at Ibero-American meetings and he was “outraged” with them. .
When asking him that the PP has specified that Feijóo was not referring with his words to the participation of Spain in the summit, but to the condescension of the Government of Pedro Sánchez with regimes such as that of Venezuela, is when Albares has asked the popular president to rectify his words.
“They are especially unfortunate in the midst of the meeting of the heads of state and government of the Ibero-American community and in a moment of unity of the Ibero-American family,” he added.
The government of the socialist Pedro Sánchez has also accused Feijóo of “ignorant and irresponsible” for his statements.
Executive sources thus responded to the words of the popular leader, who said that he feels proud to be with the Hispanic American people and does not miss meeting and “paying homage” to “apprentice autocrat rulers”, in an act organized in Madrid by the European People’s Party with the Hispanics residing in Spain.
The Government alludes to the presence of the King
Before them, the Government has reminded Feijóo that he forgets that King Felipe VI is present at the Ibero-American summit together with the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, and has urged him to respond if it seems wrong for the monarch to participate in a date like this.
The sources affirm that the conservative leader does not respect anything or anyone nor is he aware of the relevance of the Ibero-American summits and of the fact that Spain, along with Portugal, is a country that has two chairs in this type of meeting, in In his case, that of the Head of State and that of the President of the Government.
In the same way, they have reminded Feijóo that the former president of the Government José María Aznar participated in Ibero-American summits with presidents such as that of Cuba, Fidel Castro.
“Diplomatic failure”
The leader of the PP also considered “a diplomatic failure” that the summit between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean to be held in July in Brussels, during the Spanish six-month presidency of the EU, is not convened in Spain.
Faced with this criticism, the Executive stressed that Feijóo once again demonstrates his ignorance because this type of meeting, although it has been promoted by Spain, is convened by the president of the European Council, Charles Michel.
For its part, the Popular Party demanded an “immediate rectification” from the Executive for its criticism of Feijóo, alleging that they have “invented” that the leader of the PP has censored Spain’s attendance at the Ibero-American summit that is being held in the Dominican Republic.
On his Twitter account, the MEP and Deputy Secretary for Institutional Action of the PP, Esteban González Pons, stated that “inventing is the last proof of Sánchez’s despair. It is simply FALSE that Feijóo criticizes the attendance at the Ibero-American Summit, but the condescension of the Government with different oppressive regimes. We demand an immediate rectification to Moncloa (seat of the presidency of the Government)”.