Raúl PiñaSpecial Envoy Doha

Doha Special Envoy

Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-02:12

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  • Sánchez tour and his two admirers from Barcelona in the citadel of Amman: "Thank you very much for Palestine"

Since joining La Moncloa in June 2018, Pedro Sánchez has cultivated his international profile. An environment in which he feels comfortable and finds support and harmony that, perhaps, on occasion he could miss in Spain. The war in Gaza has allowed him to delve into that profile, accentuate it if possible by presenting himself as one of the firm defenders of the "Palestinian solution", for which, for example, this week he undertook a tour to the Middle East, which took him to visit

Jordan

,

Saudi Arabia

and

Qatar

. A parenthesis, a

stand-by

in the daily grind of Spanish politics. While Pedro Sánchez expressed the concern of these countries regarding an escalation of the conflict, the Popular Party was preparing its action against the Government with an investigative commission in the Senate, in which it intends to call the President of the Government to appear.

Sánchez has not hesitated in recent months to engage in diplomatic clashes with

Israel

in his approach to trying to end the conflict that is ravaging Gaza. Just yesterday, he did not rule out taking some kind of diplomatic action against Israel if this country does not give detailed explanations about the murder of seven volunteers from the NGO of Spanish chef

José Andrés

. His approach has been clear and firm for months: it involves the recognition of the two States - Palestinian and Israeli. A message that he conveyed yesterday to the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, Sheikh

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani

, and the Emir of Qatar,

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

.

For now, while national politics remains in the grip of a harsh tone and dialectic, Pedro Sánchez continues to take steps in the international sphere. He hopes that Spain can recognize the Palestinian State before the summer and from Doha he announced this Wednesday that our country will vote in favor of Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations.

Pedro Sánchez, with the Prime Minister of Qatar.AFP

But returning to Spain will not be a pleasant landing for Sánchez. The Popular Party has promoted a commission of investigation into the

Koldo case

in the Senate, in which the President of the Government is expected to be called. In this body, in addition to asking him about the plot of the masks, the

popular

ones also want him to offer details about the professional activities of his wife,

Begoña Gómez

, and about the journalistic information about her person.

"We will make him answer"

"If he does not respond, obviously we will make him respond," the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, warned yesterday in an interview with

Antena 3

, when expressly asked if he will call Sánchez to appear. The president of the Popular Party insists that Sánchez offer public explanations, but he issued a warning if this does not happen: "If it has to be in the investigation commission, then he will have to be in the investigation commission."

The Government has not completely escaped the

Koldo case

and the Popular Party has seen a wound that it does not intend to let go of. The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, described this Wednesday as "miserable" the "use" that the Popular Party is making of the information related to the role played by the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez. , before certain public awards.

In statements to the media at the Parcent Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, Félix Bolaños said yesterday that he finds it "absolutely miserable to try to litter where there is nothing," in reference to the offensive launched by the Popular Party against Begoña Gómez.

The international sphere is blurred and the national contest opens again, immersed in an electoral frenzy and with a point of tension that will be Pedro Sánchez's appearance next Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies.