15.12.2015 - 19:26 [ teleSUR ]

NATO, US Presence in Spain Under Spotlight amid Elections

The only party that have expressed an anti-NATO sentiment leading up to the elections is the leftist Podemos party. „I‘m a patriot and I don‘t like the fact that there are foreign troops — US troops — on Spanish soil,“ Podemos Secretary General Pablo Iglesias said in a radio interview in November 2014 referring to the two joint Spanish–U.S. military bases in Andalusia. „I think Nato puts us at risk.“