The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, did not hold back this morning when attacking the foreign policy line of the Popular Party (PP) and stating that they are “absolutely incapable of governing.” Commenting on the crisis sparked by the xenophobic opinion about the French national team from former president Mariano Rajoy, Albares has asked the PP to stop “boycotting” Spanish foreign policy and the relations it has with neighboring countries such as France, Morocco, or Algeria.
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The minister defends that “of course” all players of the French national team are French
“One thing is not knowing languages, another is not understanding where the interests and feelings of Spaniards lie,” he said in Brussels upon arriving at a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Twenty-Seven, where he will address the issue with the French representative.
Albares asks Feijóo, as leader of the PP, to disavow Mariano Rajoy’s words
Albares wanted to make it clear that “of course” all players of the French national team are French, “just as all players who wear the Spanish national team jersey are Spanish,” he said citing Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams.
“I have great respect for the figures of former prime ministers, but I also demand responsibility from them in how they conduct themselves and what they say. And that is why it is so important that Mr. Feijóo disavows him,” said Pedro Sánchez’s minister, calling Rajoy’s football article a dangerous “poison” that has caused great outrage in France.
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In his opinion, the episode is more serious because it deserves a “broader reflection” on the opposition party, which this week “is sabotaging with an absurd appeal of unconstitutionality that only exists in their mind the friendship and cooperation treaty with France.” In the north, “they clearly position themselves as an anti-French party,” in the south “they have long been an anti-Moroccan party, with openly belligerent positions towards this extraordinary stage of friendship we have with Morocco.” “They slander another of our great friends and neighbors, Algeria, saying they will cut off our gas when everyone knows they are a reliable supplier” and “they try to poison the relationship with a brotherly people like Mexico.”
“In the name of what foreign policy, in the name of what friendship policy, in the name of what European policy does Mr. Feijóo, the Popular Party, behave in this way?” Albares continued, with a more serious tone than usual. And he repeated: “I understand that one may not know how to speak languages, but there is one language everyone must understand; it is the language of neighborhood, it is the language of friendship, it is the language of great partners, such as France, Morocco, Algeria, or brotherly peoples, such as Mexico.”
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