The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities and Secretary General of the PSPV-PSOE, Diana Morant, and the head of the list for the 29N for the PSOE in Valencia, Pilar Bernabé, have demanded that the Partido Popular, "if it has anything of dignity left, publicly denounce the statements made by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, about Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez." Ayuso made light of the "constant lesson in feminism" that Begoña Gómez gives, whom she accused of using the university as a "social elevator".
The two socialist leaders launched this message this Saturday in Valencia, at a campaign event ahead of the general elections of November 29, in which the spokesperson for the PSM in the Assembly of Madrid, Mar Espinar, and the candidate for the Senate, Jordi Mayor, also took part. In that context, they recalled the words that Ayuso spoke this Friday at a PP event in Madrid: "Now, then she will be a candidate for chancellor, taking into account that she will be able to teach, who knows, management lessons in saunas with a happy ending, all the things that throughout her life she has mastered so well."
As a result of these statements, Bernabé has urged the PP that, "if it has anything of dignity left, come out and say that it is a disgrace," considering that "I have not heard more chauvinist and more reprehensible statements than the ones that Ms. Ayuso made about Begoña Gómez, offending a woman." In this regard, she warned: "So yes, take care, because when the right governs, they always put women in the corner or on the sides, which is what she told us yesterday."
Bernabé has insisted that "you cannot govern against women. That is why, I ask all the grandmothers in Spain, please, explain to your granddaughters that under Franco things were not better, that we cannot go back to the past, that women cannot think that we are returning to the cave. Women are the future."
The socialist candidate has defended that, "women, when we govern, when we direct, when we lead, apply the politics of empathy." She has emphasized that "women always accompany the Partido Socialista in defending rights, in defending equality, in defending social justice and in applying it," and she has asked herself "where is empathy in politics" and "in Isabel Díaz Ayuso" and "María José Catalá." "Where is that in the Partido Popular?" she added.
On this line, he has added that "we did it in 2023. We have done it over all these years. Women are, without any doubt, the ones who are going to stop this radicalized ultraright and ultra-right policy that has turned politics into a cesspool of filth. That is why the strength of women is what, in these elections, is going to pull the cart".
MORANT: "AYUSO IS A BAD PERSON"
For her part, Diana Morant has described Ayuso as "ill-mannered, sexist, and a bad person." In her view, Ayuso "is not a feminist," but "sexist" and, "above all, a bad person" because "she let 7,291 elderly people die in care homes" during the covid pandemic. "And that is to be a very bad person," she has reiterated.
Morant has asked what would have happened if, in the midst of the pandemic, Ayuso had been at the head of the Generalitat Valenciana, and she has stated that "we have checked it because we have had an Ayuso ruling that is called Carlos Mazón and in a dana he was at El Ventorro and 234 Valencians died."
"That is what happens when they govern instead of governing us. Because with Ximo Puig, 234 neighbors would not have died in the Valencian Community," the minister concluded.