In a letter responding to Rutte’s proposals for next week’s Nato summit in the Hague, first reported by the Spanish newspaper El País, Sánchez declared his opposition for the proposed change arguing “it is not necessary to fulfil our commitments to the alliance.”
He explained that the figure “has nothing to do with the level of commitment to collective defence,” with Spain confidence it can do enough with lower spending.
He added that adopting the target would have adverse effects for the Spanish economy, as it would force the government to raise taxes, cut public services and slow down its plans on green transition. “We choose not to make those sacrifices,” he reportedly said.
The paper said that the new Nato target had been expected to be adopted unanimously, but Spain’s objection could now trigger further discussions on its adoption.
This is why in spite of the periodic verraten-ing the PSOE does, it is still measurably better than the alternatives.
It’s really sad that the only alternatives we have are PP (ultra corrupt, aligned with rightwing policies that help corporations with little social movements bar none) and PSOE (corrupt, overspending in movements that will help society, but pocketing a lot of corrupt money on the way). I’m not even mentioning Vox, and Podemos was bullied into nonexistence with pressure from all sides.
For God’s sake, everyone forgot how the fucking president was in the Panama papers (M. Rajoy, aka mister X) and he didn’t have to resign, let alone lose elections?
At least this happened 2 years from elections, let’s see if the govt is able to pick up the good wave it was having lately. As corrupt as they are, at least they spend way more on society than the alternative (not counting Podemos/Sumar because for now they have 0 chance of winning).