The beating of Pedro Sánchez in effigy in front of the national headquarters of the PSOE has not yet been condemned by the national leadership of the PP, which has remained silent on the matter since the night of December 31, when the events occurred.

Although the socialists have repeatedly demanded that the popular leadership distance itself from an action that they denounce as a hate crime and in which they see a breakdown of democratic normality, the party chaired by Alberto Núñez Feijóo has left it in the hands of the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, and the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration of the Community of Madrid, Miguel Ángel García Martín, the response to the exhibition of a Pedro Sánchez doll that was shaken and beaten by far-right protesters on New Year’s Eve.

In an interview on Radio Nacional, the Galician president indicated this Tuesday that the images of the protest in front of the PSOE headquarters “should not occur in any case”, but he has accused the socialists of not condemning with the same forcefulness similar events that affect to the PP.

“I didn’t like it, of course, they are images that should not be produced in any case and, therefore, tranquility, moderation and not tension, but everywhere,” Rueda defended. “I didn’t like those images at all and what I also ask for is the same forcefulness when they occur on one side or the other,” added the president of Galicia, who has appealed to the Galician model “of tranquility, of ‘sentidiño’, of stability” to distance society “from all these tensions” that are seen in Spain “unfortunately with increasing frequency.”

“That is not right, these attitudes should not occur, but when they occur, even with less intensity or with less repercussion, when they affect us, for example, I miss a lot many times, if not all of them, the same forcefulness when saying that this should not happen,” said Rueda.

In this sense, the leader of the Galician PP has rejected the accusations of the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, that the popular have been “very lukewarm” in condemning these events: “The socialists try every time it occurs “A situation of this type conveys the image that my party, I am not going to say that it supports it, but that it does tolerate it or is not forceful enough when it comes to condemning it.”

“And I say again, the intensity with which the Socialist Party uses itself when it happens to them and putting itself in profile when it happens to others, I think that in the end it takes away a lot of its capacity for coherence and enough capacity to demand forceful condemnations” , he stressed.

For his part, after visiting the 012 Reyes Magos service, in the Royal Post Office, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration of the Community of Madrid, Miguel Ángel García Martín, stated this Tuesday that “logically” the PP is against this type of actions, but has stressed that they would like other politicians to do the same when it comes to images, for example of their leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, that “are used for spurious purposes.”

“We demand that same forcefulness when other political leaders of the PP, President Ayuso herself, are disqualified and their image is used to vilify,” García Martín insisted, for whom, however, there is “no doubt that these types of actions “They are far from what the normal contest of any political activity should be.”

“We have no problem saying that we are against the image of a person and a politician being used for these purposes. But, I insist, I hope that the same forcefulness is also manifested when the image of other political leaders is used. like President Ayuso,” the counselor stressed.

The most forceful reaction so far from the PP, in any case, has been that of the senator for Segovia Juan José Sanz Vitorio, who also described this Tuesday as “intolerable” what happened in Ferraz, which he described as an act typical of “crazy”, but, in the same way as Rueda and García Martín, he has criticized the “usual double standards” in the PSOE and has questioned the insults received by the mayor of Madrid, the popular José Luis Martínez-Almeida: “It is not receipt”.

“We strongly condemn any violent act, in the same way that when our headquarters were attacked it seemed absolutely intolerable to us. We cannot share acts of these characteristics,” said Sanz Vitorio during the assessment of the PP’s actions in Segovia.