“Those images of adolescents that we have seen by a minister of the Kingdom of Spain and those who have accompanied her, I do not think it is what the Spaniards deserve at this time.” “It seems more like an end of course than really working for Spain and for the Spanish”. These are two of the phrases left by the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, interviewed this Monday morning in La Ser to refer to the visit made by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, to New York accompanied by a secretary of State, an adviser and the former deputy of United We Can in the Madrid Assembly Isa Serra.
The visit sought to forge feminist alliances in the United States at a critical moment in that country after the recent ruling by the Supreme Court that revoked the right to abortion, but for Gamarra the trip is proof that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, “cannot maintain a government with 22 ministries when the Spanish cannot make ends meet”.
And it is that for the number two of the PP, Spain cannot afford “ministers like the one for Equality that has dedicated itself to passing a bridge in New York seeing it all the Spaniards who do not make ends meet”. He has also questioned the agenda of the Equality delegation. “I have seen and analyzed those who have met and I don’t think they are going to change much and the situation in Spain is going to improve,” said Gamarra, who believes that any politician “who has a serious agenda” can go to New York. In addition, Gamarra has considered “a bit ironic” that some of the main leaders of Podemos took photos “in the cradle of capitalism.”
On the other hand, the general secretary of the PP has defended the latest offer of scholarships from the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, which allows families who charge 100,000 euros to receive them. Asked if the PP assumes it, Gamarra has responded: “It is a proposal that a president of the Popular party has made and therefore yes.” Previously, number two of the PP has recalled that the offer supposes “an increase in scholarships for those who already received it and the expansion of those who can access them in the baccalaureate that is not public and is not fully financed” .
The popular spokeswoman has also accused the Government of having broken trust with the PP in the midst of the talks to renew the General Council of the Judiciary with the reform that it has presented to return to the governing body the powers to appoint the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court that it is time to renew now. Despite the fact that it is the PP itself that has blocked the renewal of the CGPJ for more than three years, Gamarra has blamed the Executive for the fact that there are 58 unfilled vacancies in the Supreme Court due to last year’s reform that prevented appointments to a Council with expired mandate.
For this reason, it has urged the Government to withdraw the reform presented or to return all the powers to the CGPJ to appoint magistrates even if the mandate has expired. “Confidence has been broken and the government will have to do something to recover it. In the meantime, we are working on a proposal,” explained Gamarra.
However, Gamarra has also summoned Sánchez to “stop looking for invisible enemies” after attributing his attrition to “certain economic interests, which have their media and political terminals” and has considered that with these comments the chief executive “seeks to tighten more the political climate in Spain”, something that has warned him “don’t count on the PP”. “The problem is him and his policies that don’t work,” the popular spokeswoman has diagnosed in the face of rising inflation and has prescribed Sánchez “let himself be helped” and “listen to the measures proposed by the PP, such as deflating personal income tax so that the middle class can make ends meet in a better situation”.
