If the best defense is a good attack, Pedro Sánchez has fired today with very large caliber ammunition against the three right-wing spokesmen who have taken advantage of the celebration of Women’s Day this Wednesday to accuse him in Congress, in the control session to the Government, of being responsible for lowering the sentences of more than 700 sexual offenders and rapists. The spokesperson for the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, has also blamed the head of the Executive for the scandal involving Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, alias Tito Berni, the former socialist deputy from the Canary Islands implicated in a case of alleged political corruption. And Sánchez has counterattacked by brandishing again, metaphorically, the photo of Alberto Núñez Feijóo with the Galician drug trafficker Marcial Dorado, during a getaway aboard his yacht in the summer of 1995.
“We can have a stowaway on the ship, but as soon as that happens we immediately lower it ashore,” Pedro Sánchez acknowledged, using nautical similes, alluding to Tito Berni, already expelled from the PSOE and without a seat in Congress. “And I’ll tell you something else,” he warned the PP spokeswoman. “When I get on a boat, the first thing I do is check who the skipper is. And I think you understand me ”, he pointed out, looking at the bench of the main opposition party, implicitly alluding to the controversial photo of Feijóo with Dorado on his yacht.
Faced with the accusations that Gamarra has directed at him, Sánchez has defended that “this government places feminism and equality between men and women at the center of all its political action”, despite the fact that the day before the PSOE and Unidas Podemos consummated their division in the vote in Congress to take into consideration the reform of the law, the only yes is yes. The head of the Executive, however, has replied that what worries women the most are “the similarities of the PP with the extreme right”. And he has regretted that the PP has received with intemperate boxes the parity bill approved the day before by the Council of Ministers. “We are advancing in laws in favor of real and effective equality between men and women, and you accumulate appeals before the Constitutional Court against women’s rights,” Sánchez highlighted.
