The PP deputy and number two for Madrid to the Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has launched this Friday a direct challenge to the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles: to keep a debate focused on Ceuta on the television channel that the socialist official herself prefers.
"I am going to ask for a debate to talk about Ceuta, about national defence, so that she gives an account of what the Government did not do to prevent the invasion, what it did afterward, and what she intends to do now," the 'popular' leader has said during an election campaign event in the autonomous city, where she was accompanied by the head of government of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas.
In her remarks, Álvarez de Toledo criticized Robles for saying "one thing under the table" and then "in full view" doing "another." In her view, "you can’t criticize Sánchez and not applaud him in some forums, and go as number two on his list as a supposed pretext for a decent attitude," she said, referring to the decision by the minister not to applaud the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, after his appearance in Congress on the management of the migration crisis in Ceuta.
Demands a face-to-face with Robles on Ceuta
Along these lines, the 'popular' parliamentarian has stressed that if the minister acts this way "at the very least" she must have "the courage to debate her positions publicly" with her "electoral rivals." For this reason, she has demanded that Robles hold a face-to-face focused on the autonomous city, and not on "attacks on judges," "the disastrous state of infrastructure," or "the immense national housing crisis."
Álvarez de Toledo recalled that the head of Defence said at the time that "she said that she feels very Ceutan. Ceutan women are tough and brave, so I ask her for a debate. The two of us occupy the same place on the candidacies for the Congress of Deputies: number two for Madrid," she added.