The harsh tone that has reached the Cortes of Castilla y León since the entry of Vox into the institutions has once again placed the president of the Board, the popular Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (PP), in an uncomfortable position. The novelty, after having previously put himself in profile so as not to damage the coalition that popular and ultranationalists sealed last March, is that the leader of the Executive has chosen this time to reproach the forms of his coalition partners for disavowal through.
Vox has done double in recent hours as far as controversy is concerned. On the one hand, in the last plenary session of the Cortes, the vice-president, Juan García-Gallardo, has called the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “leader of a criminal gang”. And on the other, the Minister of Employment, Mariano Veganzones, has assured that in Castilla y León “there is no need for workers, but rather the desire to work”.
Both statements have unnerved Mañueco who, according to the local press, has not hidden his anger in the corridors of Parliament. However, he has decided to chant a double speed message.
In the first place, he has disavowed Veganzones, assuring “you cannot frivolize with a particularly relevant topic”. And immediately after, he underlined that “the Government, in Castilla y León, is committed to all the people who need to work and, of course, as long as there is only one unemployed person, we will be fighting to make this a land of opportunities.” “.
And with regard to his vice president, Mañueco opted to urge in a generic way to “lower the tone” of the political debate, although without holding García-Gallardo responsible for the environment. “They know that my way of doing politics is based on arguments, on reasons, with respect to the dissenting”, he initially expressed to add that he “does not like disqualifications or outbursts or any other type of consideration, come from where they come”.
Mañueco has assured that “he believes he has sufficient moral authority” to “ask everyone to lower their tone”. And cross-examined about the words of his vice-president, who did not withdraw his accusations despite the two requests made by the president of the Cortes, the regional president has indicated that “he has nothing more to say” on this subject, since it was the The president of the Chamber, Carlos Pollán (Vox) himself, who ordered them to be removed from the session diary.
The anger begins to be a constant in the Cortes of Castilla y León, always with Vox as a recurring protagonist. On September 20, García-Gallardo called the Citizens Attorney, Francisco Igea, an “imbecile.”
The orange prosecutor was intervening from the lectern on a debate about the code of conduct and transparency of senior officials and, after making a comment about García-Gallardo’s appearance on the Masterchef television program, the regional vice president called him an “imbecile “.
“Have you called me an idiot? I want you to withdraw the insult,” Igea reiterated. Are you so kind to rectify? Can you control yourself? Haven’t you been taught to restrain yourself in your childhood?”, he chained, visibly annoyed.
However, García-Gallardo not only did not retract but added an apostille calling Igea “alleged criminal.” The response from the Citizens Attorney was not long in coming: “You are an embarrassment for this Parliament,” he concluded.
