The President of the Government will travel to five countries in the next three weeks

The Diplomat

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will start this Monday with his official trip to India, a busy international agenda that will take him to make up to five trips outside Spain in the next three weeks at a particularly delicate time internally for him and for the Executive, reports Europa Press.

In addition to the official visit to India that he will make on Monday and Tuesday at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, there are several international events that the President traditionally attends.

Thus, on November 7 and 8 he will travel to Budapest, where the first day will see the summit of the European Political Community, which brings together EU countries with other countries from the continent outside the bloc such as the United Kingdom, and on the second day the informal European Council will be held under the rotating presidency held this semester by Hungary.

He will then travel to Azerbaijan to attend COP29 on November 11 and 12 in Baku. Sánchez has been attending the climate summit in recent years. Last year he was in Dubai and the year before he travelled to Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), while in 2021 he was in Glasgow and in 2020 it was Spain that was in charge of acting as host after Chile resigned.

That same week, he will cross the Atlantic to attend the XXIX Ibero-American Summit to be held in Cuenca (Ecuador) and where Spain will assume the pro tempore presidency in order to host the event in 2026. It should be remembered that King Felipe VI will also attend this summit.

Finally, for now, Sánchez plans to travel to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on November 18 and 19 to attend the G20 summit. Although Spain is not a member of the G20, it has been participating in the summits of leaders of the countries that comprise it uninterruptedly since 2009.

Therefore, Sánchez will spend a good part of next month outside Spain, in the midst of an internal panorama complicated by several open fronts, from the progress in the courts of the case involving former minister José Luis Ábalos, the investigation against his wife, Begoña Gómez or the outbreak of the ‘Errejón case’ and its possible consequences on the government coalition between PSOE and Sumar.