The Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has urged this Saturday the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to materialize "the 'no to war'" that he himself defends into reality, and to back those words with "concrete actions" such as "closing the bases" of the United States in Rota (Cádiz) and Morón de la Frontera (Seville).
The also deputy in Congress launched this message during a press briefing in Morón de la Frontera, where she participated in the march towards the US military base called by the Andalusia for Peace Platform. Other Podemos representatives have joined the mobilization, including the candidate for Andalusia for Seville, Alejandra Durán, and the spokesperson for Podemos Málaga in the Malaga City Council, Nico Sguiglia.
Belarra has begun her speech stating that "if there has been a great lie in these four decades of American supremacy worldwide is that NATO is a defensive organization", against which she has defended that it is "an organization to fulfill the military plans of the United States worldwide".
He has underlined that "it is an offensive organization, for war", something that, in his opinion, "is being seen with total clarity under the mandate of Donald Trump". The leader of Podemos has described the president of the United States as a "dangerous fascist" and a "convicted sexual aggressor, who is sowing terror all over the world", and has stressed that "he is at the head of the most powerful army in the world", going so far as to describe him as "a real terrorist".
In this context, Belarra has made "a call to everyone to raise their voice", considering that "there is a common denominator in the illegal military intervention" that, as she has denounced, has occurred in Iran and Venezuela, as well as "in the looting and blockade of Cuba, which is also at risk of suffering an illegal military intervention", and in the "genocide of the Palestinian people".
"That is why on a day like today, when everyone is looking at Pedro Sánchez's words, I ask the President of the Government to make the 'no to war' a reality" because, he pointed out, "wars are not stopped solely with speeches," but "with concrete actions" and political decisions. In his opinion, "that necessarily involves closing the bases in Rota and Morón, which are an attack on our sovereignty, which make us accomplices of that American imperialism that is sowing the world with wars."
The leader of Podemos has added that "concrete actions also include reversing the criminal rearmament that the Government of Spain has launched on the orders of Donald Trump", and has reproached Pedro Sánchez's Executive for having "doubled military spending in this legislature" with public funds that, she has argued, "should go" to strengthening services such as hospitals, schools, or the dependency care system.
To conclude, Belarra has demanded more "concrete actions" from the Government, such as "breaking all relations with the genociders, because at this moment the arms sale contracts with Israel have not been suspended despite the embargo".