The former vice president of the government Alfonso Guerra has referred contemptuously to the criticism that the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, poured out on Felipe González for his position against the amnesty, which will surely cost him accusations of machismo. “She must have had time between one hairdresser’s salon and another,” said the former socialist leader, asked why the leader of Sumar made the former government president disgrace “the lack of political rigor” when referring to the amnesty in the Antena 3 program Espejo Público. Diaz
The same presenter of the program, Susana Griso, has warned her interlocutor, laughing, that those words would earn her a lot of criticism, to which Guerra has settled that “it is the truth, she dedicates a lot of time to it, it has no essence, a woman that says ‘I’m on a train and now I’m talking to an outlaw’, and what else? What doctrine does she give?”
Deputies and officials from Sumar have already called these statements “disgusting and “regrettable” and have denounced that they are “machismo.”
Guerra has also referred to the visit that the leader of Sumar made to the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, which he has called “infamy.”
“Whoever represents a government cannot go to see a fugitive from justice who has shown great cowardice and who is working in Brussels against Spain,” said Guerra, for whom “if this can be done without anything happening, it is because “This country has gone crazy.”
The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has come out in defense of Yolanda Díaz and criticized Guerra’s words on the social network to a woman who is in politics. Today it was her turn
@Yolanda_Diaz. It is as common as it is unacceptable. “Spain has already changed, although they have not realized it.”
The reaction from the PSOE has come from the former vice president and current socialist deputy Carmen Calvo, who, in the halls of Congress, has considered it “absolutely detestable” that policies are judged “by the hair instead of by the neurons.” . “Guerra has to look at it, she has to look at it,” she concluded.
Sumar’s spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, has considered that “some are completely losing their temper.” “These statements by Mr. Alfonso Guerra are regrettable. Fortunately, Spain is much better than its machismo,” he emphasized through a message on the social network ‘X’.
Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Marta Lois, has also spoken out to highlight that “in the Spain of the 21st century all political criticism fits, but with machismo”, which has used the label ‘
The deputy and leader of Más Madrid Tesh Sidi has also criticized Guerra’s “shameful and disgusting” “sexist” statements towards Díaz. “When arguments are not found to delegitimize our work and effort as women, sexist comments are always resorted to,” she concluded.
Sumar’s deputy spokesperson in Congress and member of En Comú Podem, Aina Vidal, has criticized that “when one resorts to ridicule and insult, it usually hides isolation, dislocation, lack of knowledge and deep insecurity.” “Stop degrading women who work and are in politics,” she demanded.
