Carlos Alsina and Susanna Griso have reconnected their programs this week, more than one and Public Mirrorto jointly analyze international news in the Middle East and Spanish national politics, marked by the elections in Castilla y León that are being held this Sunday.
During the conversation, both journalists first addressed the controversial statements of the president of the European Commission, Úrsula von der Leyen, who justified the attack by the United States and Israel against Iran despite the fact that it would violate international legality. For the European leader, the current international order would have been surpassed, a statement that generated criticism in the public debate.
Alsina warned of the risks of taking this approach. “The problem is that it seems that we are celebrating that the new order has expired,” said the Onda Cero journalist. Furthermore, he noted that Von der Leyen appears to have spoken in a personal capacity, since neither the European Parliament nor the European Council have held a formal debate to establish a common position on this matter.
The problem is that it seems that we are celebrating that the new order has expired
In this context, both communicators made reference to the interview that Alsina conducted that same day with the vice president of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, who expressed her disagreement with Von der Leyen’s words and defended the need to maintain respect for international law as the basis of the global system.
Alsina pointed out that the majority of the leaders of the European Union share part of the diagnosis regarding the loss of reliability of the United States as a strategic partner for European defense. In his opinion, Europe must realistically assume this situation and move towards a self-defense policy that allows it to act with greater autonomy on the international stage.
However, the journalist stressed that it is one thing to recognize this geopolitical change and quite another to justify that the United States or Israel can ignore international legality. In that sense, he asked: “Who is Donald Trump to decide which heads of state should die and which can live?”, criticizing the legitimacy of unilateral decisions of this type.
The PP at the expense of Vox
The conversation also moved to Spanish politics, with special attention to the situation of María Guardiola in Extremadura. Alsina considered the strategy of Santiago Abascal and his party to be not very “serious” by making possible government agreements in communities such as Aragón or Extremadura subject to the results of the elections in Castilla y León. “The parties must defend the interests of citizens in each region,” he said.
Parties must defend the interests of citizens in each region
For his part, Griso explained the electoral growth of Vox as an expression of the discomfort of a part of the electorate with the rest of the political formations, which, in his opinion, causes many voters not to pay too much attention to parliamentary strategies. Even so, he acknowledged his surprise at the sustained growth of training in the surveys.
Alsina finally recalled that Onda Cero will offer special coverage of the regional elections, with a live program from 8:00 p.m. to follow the scrutiny and analyze the results of the elections in Castilla y León.
