Without official pronouncements from the European Commission in view of the political uncertainty left by the 23J elections, this Monday from Brussels there have been solely congratulatory messages from the European People’s Party to Feijóo and from the European socialists to Sánchez.
Clear proof that the results of the Spanish basic elections of 23J supply politically unsure outcomes is that, in Brussels, no large statements have been issued this Monday to congratulate the primary candidates for the vital appointment with the polls that Spain has simply skilled.
For instance, the president of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen, on the morning of this Monday, didn’t say something on account of the victory of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo. The similar occurred with one other outstanding determine in Brussels such because the everlasting president of the European Council, the Belgian Charles Michel.
A response was noticed, nevertheless, within the European households of Feijóo, on the one hand, and, on the opposite, that of the candidate for re-election as president of the Government of Spain, the socialist Pedro Sánchez. Thus, early this Monday, the president of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Bavarian Social Christian Manfred Webber, demonstrated to have fun the triumph of the chief of the Popular Party.
“Congratulations to Nuñez Feijóo for his clear victory in yesterday’s elections, profitable three million votes in comparison with 2019, which supplies the Popular Party a transparent mandate to kind a authorities that displays this need for change,” Webber wrote on social networks. “You have our full assist,” stated the chief of the PPE, the primary formation of the European Parliament.
Similar messages have been obtained by Feijóo from different outstanding European political personalities in energy. For instance, the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo. This, like Webber, celebrated the triumph of the chief of the favored Spanish on social networks, even when every part appears to point that Feijóo will solely be capable to govern in a minority.
Congratulations to my buddy @NunezFeijoo and @ppopular in your victory within the Spanish basic elections! 🇪🇸 and 🇫🇮 are shut companions & allies and our cooperation will proceed to deepen additional.
— Petteri Orpo (@PetteriOrpo) July 24, 2023 “Congratulations to Nuñez Feijóo and the Popular Party”
“Congratulations to Nuñez Feijóo and the Popular Party in your victory within the Spanish basic elections. Spain and Finland are shut companions and allies, and our cooperation will proceed to deepen”, acknowledged Orpo. Other related European officers who expressed themselves in a celebratory tone on account of the triumph of Feijóo and the PP have been the international ministers of Italy and Bulgaria. Respectively, Antonio Tajani and Mariya Gabriel.
Congratulations to @NunezFeijoo and agli amici del @ppopular who with one other 8 million voted to return to the primary a part of Spain. The EPP represents the political heart additionally in Spain, a excellent news for all of Europe.@EPP
— Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) July 24, 2023
These kinds of messages, in addition to some outstanding ones from Feijóo’s electoral marketing campaign, occupied the general public communication networks of the PPE. However, from its important rival within the European Parliament, the Party of European Socialists (PES), the identical was executed this Monday in favor of Pedro Sánchez.
Thus, the Parliamentary Group of the PES within the European Parliament, the Group of Socialists and Democrats, offered a triumphant picture of Sánchez in a tweet by which they exclaimed in Spanish “Forward!” He seemed like a message of assist for the thought of holding Spain ruled by the PSOE.
“With 31.70% of the votes, the PSOE obtains its greatest end result because the 2008 elections,” they identified from the group of European socialists within the Eurochamber.
Congratulations @sanchezcastejon!
With 31.70% of votes, PSOE will get greatest rating since 2008 elections.
The message is evident: Spain says no to the intense proper in authorities. There are extra Spaniards who need Spain to maneuver ahead & that is the way it will proceed to be.
Forward! pic.twitter.com/8sqetF2HMQ
— S&D Group (@TheProgressives) July 24, 2023
“The message is evident: Spain says ‘no’ to the intense proper within the Government. There are extra Spaniards who need Spain to maneuver ahead and that’s the way it will proceed to be”, they abounded, alluding to a attainable electoral denial of the federal government coalition with an absolute majority within the Lower House of PP and Vox.
European socialists celebrating Sánchez
They additionally echoed – through retweet – within the Group of Socialists and Democrats within the European Parliament the message tweeted by Pedro Sánchez himself by which he gave the impression to be the winner, saying that Spain had been “clearly and resoundingly clear” rejecting the proposal represented by each PP and Vox.
“The involutionist, backward block, which proposed the repeal of the progress made in these 4 years, has failed. There are many extra of us who need Spain to proceed advancing. Thank you very a lot to everybody”, in accordance with the interpretation made by Sánchez on the election night time of 23J.
That similar interpretation is the one proven by the president of the PES Parliamentary Group within the European Parliament, the additionally Spanish socialist Iratxe Pérez, who celebrated on Twitter a “victory of democracy” regardless of Feijóo’s triumph, an inadequate victory for PP and Vox to regulate the Executive due to an absolute majority within the Congress of Deputies. They might management the Government, sure and if obligatory, being in a minority within the Lower House.
Sánchez’s end result: “excellent news for the EU”
“I’m proud to see the Spanish vote to cease the intense proper, its lies and its hatred. A majority continues to advance in the direction of equality and social rights, towards the backward push of the conservative alliance, ”Pérez wrote in English below the identical picture of Pedro Sánchez that he utilized in PES networks.
Democracy wins in Spain! Proud to see Spaniards voting to cease the far proper, their lies & hatred.
A majority wish to proceed advancing on equality and social rights, towards a backward conservative alliance.
Good information for the EU. I hope the EPP will get the message.
🌹🇪🇺❤️ pic.twitter.com/qIiiNtkqBD
— Iratxe Garcia Perez / ❤️ (@IratxeGarper) July 24, 2023
“Good information for the EU. I hope that the PPE will get the message”, abounded the chief of the Socialists and Democrats of the Eurochamber.
Leaving the PPE apart, and certainly in view of the uncertainty generated by each Feijóo and Sánchez presenting themselves as winners after 23J, in Brussels, Von der Leyen and firm had not but made a transfer this Monday. It would appear that they don’t wish to appoint anybody as President of the Government of Spain, for the second, apart from the appearing head of the Executive, who remains to be Pedro Sánchez.
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