IU opens the doors to add the government if internal does not cancel the bala purchase contract to Israel | Spain

Unprecedented crisis in the government of the coalition between PSOE and Add. Just a day after the group of Yolanda Díaz criticized the increase in military expenses included in the executive safety plan, the minority partner returned to raise the voice on Wednesday against the decision of the Ministry of the Interior to continue with the purchase of 15 million bullets in Israel. A contract assessed at 6.6 million euros that the government had agreed with an Israeli company, but which had decided to cancel October 24 following the Gaza War. This Wednesday, the agency led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska has recognized that he had rectified and announced Went on with the purchase. The decision opened an unparalleled conflict with the addition and United on the left, part of that group, opened the doors to its five ministers to leave the government. “It is a flagrant violation of the agreements and, therefore, we ask for the immediate adjustment of that contract and, secondly, the immediate aspect of the minister to explain what happened,” said Diaz shortly after the news. In a particularly serious tone, the federal coordinator of IU, Antonio Maíllo, went a further step forward. “Unida Izquierda will not tolerate that any object (of the executive in which it is part) will finance a genocidal state,” he warned. “It is not enough to ask for explanations. We will not travel that path. The PSOE has opened the greatest crisis since we have a government in 2023,” he added.

The addition of guests in your group to very different political traditional parties and for iu this problem is of enormous sensitivity. He was born in 1986 in the heat of mobilizations against the ratification of the entrance of Spain in NATO and maintained a historical defense position of the Palestinian state. To the question in a press conference for the permanence of his training in the coalition, the parliamentary spokesman for the EIG, Enrique Santiago, recognized that they are “in front of a serious contradiction”. “On the one hand, we want Spain to remain the only progressive coalition government. It is the best protective shield in our country. If in the end you have to make a decision not to continue participating in the government, we will try that in Spain there is no right government,” he said open to any scenario. The deputy added that the decisions will be made “collectively”, Auqneu has not excluded that it is only the iu that marks the manager. “It is not us who broke the coalition agreements,” he reiterated in relation to PSOE. Santiago indicated that he had requested a meeting of the absorption table to evaluate the situation and receive all the explanations.

An hour earlier, those of Díaz had sent a declaration in which they denounced the change of interior on the acquisition of weapons at a time when they consider the key. “The suspension of the weapon trade with Israel is not only a fair measure in the context of the genocide that the Palestinian people are suffering, but also in line with the international treaties on the weapon trade”, reads the text of the party. “The commitment of the government of Spain with the Palestinian people must be absolute. There are no nuances in the middle of a massacre whose managers have an international arrest warrant by the international criminal court”, add the declaration.

During his speech, Santiago also refuted the arguments of the state defense, he arrived on the iron in offering the legal services of the united left and of the parliamentary group to cancel the contract with Israel and has indirectly requested the resignation of Marlaska and Marlaska Robles, defense managers, if they are unable to interrupt the contract. “We believe that, according to the resolutions agreed by Spain, there are sufficient legal arguments so that Spain does not become an accomplice of a genocide for the transfer of resources to a state that violates the resolutions of the United Nations. Neither six nor 6,000 million can justify that Spain falls in a genocide,” he said.

The minister of youth and childhood, Sira Rego, sent a letter to Marlaska on Wednesday, also asking that “the contract is immediately proceeded and that an audit is launched that sheds light on other contracts or commercial relations of any other type that could be with Israel in this area.” Rego, of IU, underlines that the purchase of bullets “is a clear violation of the collective decisions made so far within the government”. “The purchase of weapons tested in combat against the Palestinian civilian population clash primarily with the position that Spain has maintained internationally, as well as the majority feeling of the population. It is of extreme gravity that it will publicly announce in the letter.

Speaking with El País, the spokesman for the compromise, Alberto Ibáñez, has also openly requested Marlaska’s resignation “if the contract with Israel is not resolved”.

The Head of Economic Affairs of the Civil Guard Many 15,300,000 bullets assigned in the last 16 years 9 mm caliber to the Israeli company Guardian Defense & Homeland Security SA, branch of the international group of Guardian Ltd Israel, for 6,642,900 euros. The prize was published on the public sector hiring platform on Good Friday, in the middle of Holy Week.

After knowing the prize of this contract last October, Interior declared that he had started the procedure to cancel the purchase. “The Spanish government maintains the commitment not to buy or sell weapons to the Israeli state since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza,” said the department directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska in a note. “Although in this case it is an acquisition of ammunition, the Ministry of the Interior has started the administrative procedure to cancel the purchase,” he said. However, Interior resigned to revoke the competition prize for the Israeli company after the defense of the State warned that, given the advanced procedure, he could face having to pay a strong compensation to the winning company, according to sources of said department.

Refusal of Podemos and BNG

“With all this information, the government of Spain is a collaboration of a genocide. This has been added to an unprecedented breeding plan, makes it a government of war and conflicts,” said the secretary general of Podemos, Io Belarra, who denounced the Congress that the country also served for the transit of weapons towards Israel.

Through a declaration, the nationalist bloc of Galego (BNG) also asked the executive to rectify and immediately cancel all contracts with the Israeli companies relating to military material. “The Government has legality on its side to cancel all these contracts. Law 53/2007 and the international treaty to weapons trade allow to suspend transactions with countries that commit war crimes and human rights violations, as in the case of Israel”, says the text.