The PP threatens not to support the increase in military spending: "We'll see if we save soldier Sánchez"

• Sánchez Summit is already negotiating military support for NATO with the PP, after the rejection of Podemos

Once the NATO summit has lowered the curtain, the PSOE now faces the harsh reality: how to fulfill the commitment made by the Prime Minister himself, Pedro Sánchez, to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2029. Faced with the outright rejection of its partner, United We Can, to increase the military budget, the PSOE has already advanced that it will seek the PP in a new version of the variable geometry that it has been applying in

.

However, the

ones will not give away their vote in favor: "We'll see if we save soldier Sánchez."

This has been warned by the Institutional Deputy Secretary of the PP, Esteban González Pons, this Saturday in

.

The leader of the PP has regretted that the Government rejected, even before the celebration of the Atlanticist conclave, a State pact for defense policy.

And, although González Pons has not closed the door to continue negotiating state pacts (in the next few days they will present a proposal to renew the

), he has made it clear that state policy is not to save Sánchez from the division of your Executive.

Nor do they give their support to an increase in military spending without knowing what the budget counterpart will be.

"We cannot give them a blank check that serves to defend not NATO, but Sánchez from his partners," said González Pons.

The PP's Institutional Deputy Secretary has admitted that the 1% increase in GDP committed by Sánchez to NATO "means that defense spending will increase by 12,000 million euros."

"We are not opposed to it, it seems to us the right thing to do and it has been committed to NATO for a long time", explained González Pons, adding afterwards: "But the government has to tell us where it is going to get the money, because governing is assume responsibilities".

"The government cannot say that it is increasing spending and then ask us to vote in favor if we do not know where it is going to take it from," he insisted.

And another warning to Sánchez, sticking his finger in the wound of the confrontation in

: "Nor can he ask us to support his new defense policy if it is not that of his government."

In the words of González Pons, "a State party is one that supports the Government of that State, not a part of the Government."

"If Sánchez asks us for the vote so that we defend him from his partner, it is not State policy. We will see if we save the soldier Sánchez", González Pons has sentenced, who has also censured the socialist leader for "agreeing with the heirs of ETA the democratic memory of the Spaniards".

"The members of ETA become the victims and the Spaniards, the executioners."

"Not even the mother who gave birth to him knows the PSOE," lamented the

leader , who has appealed "to the socialists who believe in the Transition and the legacy of Felipe González" to join the PP.

"To defend the democratic memory of Spain against the democratic memory of Bildu", he concluded, after the PSOE-Bildu pact to investigate the crimes of Francoism but until 1983, with which the GAL would be reached.

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