Málaga (EFE) candidacy and not having been fully involved in attracting this international event to Spain.
In an act in Benalmádena (Málaga), the number one of the PP for Málaga to the Congress has denounced that the president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno; The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, and the president of the Provincial Council, Francisco Salado, went “with great enthusiasm to Paris to defend the candidacy for Expo 2027”, while the Executive preferred to go “with the handbrake on”. .
“The enthusiasm, commitment and professionalism of the candidacy led by Moreno, De la Torre and Salado is not the same as what we saw in the faces of the Government of Spain”, Bendodo said, referring to the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, who was the one who represented the Executive in the assembly of the International Exhibitions Office (BIE), in which the winning city was chosen, in this case Belgrade (Serbia).
More commitment if the candidate were Catalan or Basque
According to Bendodo, “Sánchez has not committed himself” to Malaga’s candidacy for the Expo and what he has done has been “with a small mouth”: “He could not say no, he has not raised any illusions in him, he could not allow another victory for Malaga. That is what the Government of Pedro Sánchez has done with respect to the Expo”.
He recalled that Belgrade beat Malaga in the fourth and final vote by just eleven votes difference and pointed out that the Serbian prime minister “had been working in Paris for a week to win the candidacy.”
Sánchez, on the other hand, “nor was it”: “Here we would have allowed him to have taken the Falcon and gone from Madrid to Paris and would have defended the candidacy of Malaga, which is a Spanish city. In the end there are the results ”, he declared.
In addition, Bendodo wondered if the Prime Minister would have gone to support the Spanish project in Paris if the candidate city had been from Catalonia or the Basque Country: “Sure, of course,” he stressed.