The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has denounced the “insolvency and bad faith” of the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for his statements questioning the Ibero-American Summit and the leaders who attend it, and has shown his surprise at the “gaps of ignorance” that it shows.
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At a press conference at the end of the Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Sánchez thus responded to Feijóo’s recent words with which, in the midst of holding this summit, the PP leader disdained the presence of the president in this meeting.
Sánchez has regretted the “unfortunate statements” by Feijóo, whom he has reminded that these appointments have been held for three decades and have had the participation of “innumerable governments of all kinds” both in Spain and in other countries. In fact, King Felipe VI also participates in this summit, he has stressed. The president has considered “quite surprising both the insolvency and the bad faith” of Feijóo.
Hours earlier, in an act in Madrid with the Latin American population, Feijóo was “very proud” of “not paying homage to apprentice rulers of autocrats and truly autocrats.” “I do not miss meeting with some rulers of the Spanish-American nations,” said the leader of the PP.
“These gaps in ignorance are surprising” by Feijóo
Although the PP has subsequently clarified that Feijóo was not referring to the Ibero-American summit with his words, as explained by the deputy secretary of institutional action of the popular, Esteban González Pons, Sánchez has linked it. “Both the insolvency and bad faith of Mr. Feijóo is quite surprising, because he has been in charge of the PP for more than a year and it is surprising that he has not been able to fill those gaps of ignorance that he has by forming teams that advise him on history and how the Ibero-American summits take place”, the president added.
Thus, Sánchez has defended the importance of an event such as the Ibero-American Summit, “a space for consultation that at a time like the present is more necessary than ever.” “They will continue to be the framework par excellence in which we all present our impressions” regardless of differences since “what unites us is a lot”, she stressed.
These are especially unfortunate statements
From Santo Domingo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has also asked the leader of the PP to immediately rectify his criticism of attending Ibero-American meetings, something with which the minister has been “outraged.” “Are [declaraciones] especially unfortunate in the midst of the meeting of the heads of State and Government of the Ibero-American community and at a moment of unity of the Ibero-American family”, Albares specified.
For its part, the Popular Party has not been left behind, and has also demanded an “immediate rectification” from the Executive for its criticism of Feijóo, alleging that they have “invented” that the PP leader has censored Spain’s attendance at the summit Iberoamericana that is celebrated in the Dominican Republic. According to González Pons, what his party reproaches is that Sánchez “is a coward to denounce the oppressors” and “sympathizes with them” at the Ibero-American Summit.