Sánchez visits the border with Russia to reinforce the Government's commitment to NATO despite Podemos

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The President of the Government,

, traveled to Latvia on Tuesday, on the border with Russia, to visit the Spanish troops deployed in the country and convey a message of support from the Government to NATO.

In the midst of a clash with the Podemos ministers

and

, who have criticized Spain's position in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sánchez will deploy an intense agenda today in Latvia, which will take him to visit the Adazi military base and a field maneuvers, and to hold bilateral meetings with the country's prime minister, Arturs Krisjanis Karins;

the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, the country that currently holds the leadership of the international deployment in Latvia.

The tension in the government soared last week, when Sánchez decided to rectify seeing the violence of the Russian invasion and the international reaction and announced that Spain would send weapons to Ukraine, as almost all the allies were already doing.

Podemos expressed the opposite position of him and over the weekend he even suggested that the PSOE was a "war party", in the words of the

general secretary , Ione Belarra.

These tensions, however, do not seem sufficient at the moment to cause a breakup of the coalition Executive.

On Monday, all parties agreed to deny that there were going to be resignations or dismissals, and this Tuesday Pedro Sánchez has joined those voices, assuring that the magnitude of the situation "transcends" the friction and "dynamics" of each party and that the Council of Ministers is rowing entirely in the same direction.

This is how the Chief Executive expressed himself during an informal conversation with journalists during the flight to Latvia.

The president's objective is to reduce the importance of the criticism of Podemos and reinforce the Government's commitment to the Alliance against Russia.

Sánchez has insisted that the relationship with the

branch of the Executive has not been affected and that the conversations with ministers such as Yolanda Díaz, Irene Montero or Ione Belarra are regular and frequent.

And he wanted to make it clear that the criticism of these last two does not affect the position adopted by the Executive regarding the shipment of weapons bilaterally to Ukraine.

"The Government is clear about who is the aggressor and who is attacked"

in this war, the president reiterated, who has no doubt that Spain "is going to be where it has to be", which is within the commitment as part of the EU and NATO, guaranteeing the security of its members and supporting Ukraine, which is the invaded territory, as much as possible.

Despite the dissenting voices of Podemos, which reiterate that

and that they intend to take this matter to today's 8-M demonstrations, Sánchez maintains that "the social majority is with the Government " and supports the response he is giving, which has evolved over the days from a low profile that convinced Podemos to the 180-degree turn with which Sánchez announced last Wednesday that Spain would finally send weapons directly to Ukraine.

Why this change?

"The crisis is evolving day by day," says the chief executive, who admits that Spain's reaction, like that of other countries, has been "adapting" to Putin's advance on Ukrainian soil.

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