The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has held the Spanish left responsible this Monday for justifying the riots in France and has expressed her fear that it could encourage similar episodes in Spain if it does not accept the outcome of the polls in the general elections on the upcoming November 29.
The 'popular' leader has spoken in these terms during an interview on "La Mirada Crítica" of Tele 5, reported by Europa Press, where she explained that she is "very worried" to observe how Pedro Sánchez's partners endorse the violence that is occurring in the French streets.
"I admit that it scares me a lot" to see the government partners justifying violence "especially because it is what we could see in Spain if the left does not win in this country," she stated.
In this line, she emphasized that there is also a wide social discontent in Spain, but she stressed that "indignation is not manifested by burning churches or storming the streets and putting up barricades, indignation is shown at the polls."
For this reason, she has urged all citizens dissatisfied with the management of the Executive over the last 8 years, which she accuses of having neglected the Spaniards, to "vote en masse to end this government" on the upcoming November 29: "we have to choose between the delinquency of Pedro Sánchez or the decency of a party and government project of President Núñez Feijóo."
The spokesperson for the Popular Group has recalled that "the only ones who have encouraged violence, the only ones who justify violence, the only ones who have surrounded parliaments when they have lost elections have been the left in this country." As an example, she mentioned the siege of the Andalusian Parliament at the beginning of Juanma Moreno's government, with buses funded by the PSOE, or the pressure on the national Parliament after Mariano Rajoy's victory.
Therefore, she believes that "it is not very far-fetched to think that, in the face of a hypothetical government of the Popular Party, the left will indeed not respect the results again."
Furthermore, Muñoz has insisted that the PSOE's warning about the possible arrival of Vox "does not resonate either in the socialist electorate or in Spain" and has criticized that in each electoral campaign the left resorts to "stirring up fear that the right is coming."
In this regard, he has emphasized that the right "has governed this country for many years and the Spaniards have improved their quality of life." In his opinion, those fears "no longer have any traction" and the left uses them because "it has it very difficult" as it cannot present, he has said, a solid project at the service of the citizens.
In this context, he has asked what the current Executive can offer when, after eight years in power, housing has become the main problem of the country and the Spaniards "are getting to the end of the month much worse than three years ago and than eight years ago."
Agreement between PP and Vox for the Senate
In relation to the conversations between the PP and Vox to run with joint lists for the Senate, Muñoz has clarified that he is not part of those negotiations and that, therefore, he does not have many more details. However, he wanted to make it clear that the Popular Party is acting "in the interest of Spain."
He has recalled that the left has woven "an alliance to control the Senate and be able to block anything that a future government of the Popular Party does." For this reason, he has assured that the popular will do "everything possible" to prevent the PSOE and its "communist and Bildu" partners from being able to "control the Chamber (Lower) and torpedo the future government of Spain."