The spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Cortes of Castilla y León, Carlos Martínez, has reproached the candidate for investiture and acting president of the Junta, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, for having ended up accepting the "crumpled paper" with which he rejected Vox's proposals to negotiate the regional budgets in the last legislature, and has accused him of having to "eat" that document now as a "cold dinner" with which "he has swallowed his principles".
During his reply in the Investiture Debate Plenary Session, Martínez once again displayed before Fernández Mañueco the ten-point plan that Vox presented in the previous legislature as a basis for agreeing on the Community's accounts, a text that the president then crumpled up and threw away before the regional Chamber.
Faced with the defense of the agreement now signed with Abascal's party to govern Castilla y León for the next four years, the socialist leader again showed the document, turned it into a "crumpled paper" again, and placed it on a plate: "Here you have it, your cold dinner after two years, your dinner that has served as an alibi for you to cling to the chair, you have swallowed the document and, what is worse, all your principles, that's how far your roots go," he stated.
"In your dinner, your values and principles have been eaten, you are eating the reality of this autonomous community, because no matter how much you want to live in that permanent dreamlike state you are in, our young people are still leaving us," the socialist spokesperson censured.
Martínez also reproached Fernández Mañueco for boasting about a slight population increase thanks to the arrival of migrants and, at the same time, having signed a pact with those who "turn migration into a problem" and whom the president himself accused in his day of "wanting to throw migrants into the sea". "You today, with this crumpled paper, have to eat it," he stressed.
"That is the reality, and with this you eat the future of Castilla y León, enjoy it, Mr. Mañueco," concluded Martínez, who left the "crumpled paper" on the lectern from which he was speaking. This gesture led the president of the Cortes, Francisco Vázquez, to order the ushers to remove the crumpled paper.