The head of the electoral list for Frente Amplio in Madrid, Emilio Delgado, has demanded that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, force the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, following the actions of the security forces during the general strike, where police interventions have taken place against picket lines and trade unionists.
"I address the President of the Government directly, and also in this we are going to have to push him. How long will it take him to make the decision that everyone knows he has to make, how long will it take to remove a minister who, either is unleashing the Police against the popular classes, or has lost control of the State Security Forces and Corps", he exclaimed in statements to the media after attending the demonstration called in Madrid on the occasion of the general strike.
The Frente Amplio leader has called for Marlaska to leave the executive immediately and for an end to "violence against the working class" in a day marked by various police charges against picket lines and more than 50 arrests.
The 'number one' of Frente Amplio for Madrid has denounced that they have "stuck" to antifascists and to people who were demanding better access to housing through police charges that, in his view, had "no kind of justification".
For his part, the other leader of Más Madrid has argued that the general strike has been an "absolute success" and has launched attacks against the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, by stating that "you have to have nerve" to call the strikers' conveners "trade union garbage" when, in his view, it is she who has damaged public services in the region.
"I also want to send a message to Feijóo and Abascal. They would have done well to go down and talk with the picket lines; it is much better to listen to the Spain that gets up early than to speak in its name or to pontificate about it systematically", he said.
Delgado has accused the PP and Vox of including in their electoral proposals the freezing of the minimum wage and has criticized that they "call into question the honesty of workers by calling them lazy and questioning sick leaves and leaving them in the hands of the mutuals".