Casado replies to Robles that the sense of State does not imply that the PP has to "shut up" and not criticize the Government

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He agrees that the operation has been carried out without transparency or parliamentary control and demands explanations from Sánchez

LA FRONTERA (EL HIERRO), Aug 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado, replied this Thursday to the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, that the sense of State does not imply that the PP has to “shut up” and avoid criticizing the Government, in this case for the operation of evacuation in Afghanistan, and has asked him to respect the work of the opposition.

“The sense of the State is not silence, so respect for the opposition,” Casado told journalists during a visit to El Hierro, where he regretted that “ministers come out to say that the PP has to shut up because it is unfair”. “Hey, no, we support the government when it takes the appropriate measures, generally late and badly, but the last straw is that they keep us quiet,” he added.

This is how he responded to the Defense Minister, who has censured that the PP Secretary of Justice and Interior, Enrique López, has questioned the mission that is being carried out in Afghanistan to remove Afghans fleeing from the new Taliban leaders from the country , by suggesting that the Executive should have the endorsement of Congress. According to Robles, the PP has demonstrated “once again” its “lack of sense of state.”

Casado has stressed that Sánchez “has to appear in the Congress of Deputies” to explain the Government’s position on the issue of Afghanistan and on other issues, such as the legal framework to manage the coronavirus pandemic, the forest fires that have occurred. this summer or the rising cost of the electricity bill.

“IF HE DOESN’T WANT TO GO, LET THEM SAY SO”

“Let him say that Parliament does not want to go and that the opposition shut up out of a sense of the State … No, that is a sense of due obedience that its partners will have from time to time. We, of course, are the opposition and the alternative to the Government, and more responsible than them, but our job is to say things clearly, “he insisted.

In his opinion, the Executive of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos should not “oppose the opposition,” but rather thank the PP for “supporting an operation that has been found out in the press and that has arrived seven days late, while Sánchez I was in Lanzarote on vacation “.

In addition, it has made the President of the Government ugly that, after “doing things wrong” in the evacuation operation in Afghanistan, he takes “a photo with European leaders” – the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel – in the camp set up at the base of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid). “We lend Spain so that all Afghans enter and then we will see how they leave,” he commented.

The PP leader has indicated that the evacuation from Afghanistan has been done “without information and without transparency” and has agreed with Enrique López that an international mission of this type “has to go through Congress.”

“What is it, that we are less democratic than Germany, the United Kingdom, France or Italy? Is it that the Minister and the Prime Minister believe that our Parliament is less important than that of other European countries?” .

ASKS THE GOVERNMENT TO “DO NOT PLAY WITH THE ARMED FORCES”

Of course, he wanted to make it clear that the object of the PP’s criticism is the Government, “not the Armed Forces, who carry out orders, in this case late”, and whose members “have risked their lives” in the Central Asian country. For this reason, he has asked the Executive “not to play with the Armed Forces, which belong to everyone, not theirs.”

Finally, Casado has indicated that the socialists “never” supported from the opposition “any military operation” when the PP ruled. “It would be good to remember what the PSOE said about the deployment of troops to guarantee the freedom of the Afghans and to guarantee that the Taliban regime did not return” to seize power in Afghanistan, because “twenty years ago they liked very much the ‘no to the war ‘”, he pointed out.