The president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has sent a letter of protest to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for the statements of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, at the press conference of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, with the who in his opinion “denigrated” Castilla y León, by referring to some words against the artists that the vice president of the Board, Juan García-Gallardo, said.
When asked about García-Gallardo’s words, Minister Puente responded that “unfortunately, what remains there (in Castilla y León) are people who describe those who make up the culture as gentlemen, as paniaguados, as people without ambition, people who have been condemning Castilla y León to depopulation, to being an open-air demographic desert. That is what remains in Castilla y León. Unfortunately, this loss of ambition and love for culture, for the values ??that culture represents , are in this case represented in Castilla y León by the vice president of the government.”
In his letter to Sánchez, Mañueco expresses his “complaint about the insults and contempt” that Puente “has directed towards all Castilians and Leonese” and considers that “using his appearance to discredit and denigrate our people is an unacceptable affront,” for which asks him “as president of all Spaniards” to “take measures so that this situation does not happen again.”
The president of Castilla y León reminds Sánchez that this community “largely thanks to the effort and sacrifice of our elders” is, today, “a land of progress with an excellent level of quality of life” and that is what he directs his management to, which It has been confirmed by “independent studies” as “the autonomous community with the best public services in Spain”, despite, he says, the “notable underfinancing” they suffer.
Mañueco also remembers that the latest Pisa report “certifies that our education is the best in Spain and is among the ten best in the world” and that “we are the community that most fiscally supports birth rates and families, and the second with the highest rates.” income tax”, in addition to being the one that allocates the largest percentage of its budget to social policies.
For this reason, the Castilian and Leonese president says to the president of the Spanish Government, “it is intolerable that the Government of Spain insults our land. That the minister who is the protagonist of these attacks is, in addition, a person from Castilla y León, it is even more disappointing and shows that with his attitude and rudeness he is not up to the position he represents and embarrasses us.
Hence, it concludes by asking him to intervene “in favor of respect for the people of Castile and Leon and institutional cordiality between the Government of the Nation and that of Castilla y León, and to take the necessary measures to prevent this type of statements and attitudes from returning to repeat”.