The head of the list of Frente Amplio for Madrid, Emilio Delgado, has defended a greater redistribution of wealth and the protection of public services against the privileges of the richest strata, while the Minister of Health and leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has launched attacks on the leaders of the PP and Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, warning that they will not allow cuts to rights.
"These elections, or chainsaw for those down below, or chainsaw for those up above. And I say chainsaw for those up above," Delgado proclaimed during an event held in Getafe (Madrid) together with the Minister of Health, Mónica García, and the MP Tesh Sidi.
The candidate emphasized that Spain faces the "most important elections in the last 50 years" and has stressed that these elections will determine whether the country will have "a government at the service of the common" or one that "turns its back on the common to protect the privileges of those from always."
Delgado has defended a political proposal aimed at the 99% of the citizenry and has insisted on the urgency of "redistributing wealth, opportunities, time, money, and property," against a minority that, as he has denounced, concentrates most of the resources.
The aspiring candidate has also criticized the economic model that, in his view, Vox and its international referents embody, and he has mentioned as an example Paraguay, a country whose economic policies he considers the training of Santiago Abascal intends to replicate in Spain. "That is what they want to bring here, what is punishing the working classes around the world and leaving people without a home, without opportunities, without time, and without the ability," he warned.
Feijóo and Abascal "in the dock of indignity"
For her part, Mónica García has lashed out at Feijóo and Abascal, whom she has put on the "dock of indignity," and has warned that right-wing policies put social rights at risk, especially those linked to abortion, euthanasia, and the LGTBI collective. "They don’t hide it, Feijóo has said that he wants to grope the right to abortion, he wants to grope the euthanasia law, the rights of the LGTBI collective. No, Alberto, no, the only thing you’re going to be able to grope is the narco’s back, because neither our lives nor our bodies are what gets groped," she said.
In relation to the elections, the minister has emphasized that what is at stake is “lucidity versus stupidity,” and has reaffirmed that Spain is a country “proud to be antifascist and antiracist.” In addition, she has alluded to the “chainsaw” policies of Javier Milei, the “friend of Ayuso.” “The chainsaw policies prey on pensioners, on the LGTBI collective, on trans women. We and we have fought for each and every one of those rights and we are going to continue fighting for each of those rights,” she stressed.
During her speech, García put the focus on “women, ladies.” “A lot is said about ‘Perro’ but we know that it is we bitches of the world who make sure things get done. We bitches of the world are the ones who will stop the fascists. We bitches of the world are the ones who will protect rights, the ones who protect our litter and the litters of the future.
García also directed a message to PP’s candidate for president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to remind him that “neither feminism nor the fight for rights is infused by the placenta but rather it builds, it is nurtured, it is cared for.”
For her part, the deputy Tesh Sidi highlighted the work of Más Madrid during the legislature and argued that the formation has driven progress in areas such as the revaluation of pensions, housing, universal healthcare, or the ELA law.
Likewise, she rejected that the useful vote in the upcoming elections should be that of the PSOE and defended that “the third seat in each province” must correspond to the Frente Amplio, understanding that it is the option capable of stopping Vox. “The useful vote is us, the ladies, the migrants, the Sahrawis and not the ‘cayetanas,’” she concluded.