The general secretary of the PSOE-A and candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, María Jesús Montero, warned this Tuesday that the campaign for the Andalusian elections on May 17 starts “dirty” following the statements by the acting president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón (PP), about her “lack of physical attractiveness”.
In an appearance before the media at the PSOE-A headquarters in Seville, the also first vice-president of the Government and Minister of Finance has reacted to the words of the Aragonese leader, who stated that the general secretary of PSOE-Aragón, Pilar Alegría, is “physically more attractive” than María Jesús Montero, who, furthermore, was going to have “a much worse face” after the Andalusian elections on May 17, as he predicted.
“I believe that Pilar Alegría, careful with these things that are said now, physically is, how to say it, more attractive than María Jesús Montero. I believe that María Jesús Montero is going to look much worse than Pilar Alegría,” stated Azcón during an event held in Zaragoza and organized by El Confidencial.
Montero has taken those expressions as a reference to recall that the president of the Junta and of the PP-A, Juanma Moreno, assured "this morning in a media outlet that the campaign -for the Andalusian elections- was going to be a dirty campaign, and it has certainly been fulfilled on this first day", has underlined the socialist candidate, who at that moment has censored Azcón's allusions "related to my lack of physical attractiveness".
“This is Moreno Bonilla's Popular Party, the one that insults women for their appearance, and also the one that despises talent, the intelligence that women bring to public life, to social life or to any of the spheres in which they participate,” María Jesús Montero has stated, who has insisted that she is “the only woman running as a candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía” in the upcoming regional elections.
The socialist leader has once again attacked the “false moderation” of Juanma Moreno, whom she accuses of “instigating others to use that type of issues, and then he wants to go as moderate and that he is not the one who starts this type of insinuations,” she concluded.