The National Security Commission of the Congress of Deputies this Tuesday rejected a non-statutory proposal by Vox to ask Britain to stop using Gibraltar as a “base or workshop” for nuclear submarines, with a significant “danger” to “Spain’s national security”.
Vox deputy Agustín Rosety denounced the “nuclear risk” suffered by the Gulf of Cádiz as a result of the presence of nuclear submarines, as well as the “humiliation” of Spanish sovereignty.
“Spain is the only city in Europe that was subject to colonization. And like any colony, Gibraltar has the function of extracting the wealth of the colonized country,” the deputy province of Cádiz criticized.
The initiative has won the backing of the PP, whose senator María José García Pelayo has emphasized the risks, making this claim “out of loyalty” to Great Britain. “But loyalty doesn’t mean being silent, it means being clear and putting your cards on the table,” he said.
From the PSOE, Senator César Mogo lashed out at the Vox initiative as “book-populist nationalism”, with “falsehood”, “decontextualization” and “documentary poverty”. “This is meant to exploit any loophole to create fear,” he condemned, rejecting the “alarmism” that he said the “extreme right” wanted to employ.
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