The candidate of the Frente Amplio for Madrid, Emilio Delgado, has warned the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that "threatening" the right to abortion and euthanasia has political consequences in Spain, and has recalled that in the country "ministers have already fallen" for trying to cut back these rights, in clear reference to the former Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.
At an event held in Madrid, Delgado criticized that, in his view, the popular leader intends to "curtail" both social achievements and emphasized that the PP is "free or not to take note" that in the past restrictions on abortion ended the careers of officials from the party itself.
"What we are going to tell him is that Spanish women and Madrilenians are not going to tolerate either Ayuso sending women to abort outside of Madrid or Feijóo now trying to send them outside of Spain to abort. That stage of our country has passed, women have all their rights, they are going to defend them and we are going to be many men supporting them," he pointed out.
"Every time he speaks, bread prices go up"
Furthermore, the spokesperson for the Frente Amplio campaign for the general elections, Pablo Bustinduy, has joked that every public intervention by Feijóo makes "bread prices go up" and has considered that this Friday it has become "clear" that his political project lacks proposals and focuses on "dismantling the rights acquired thanks to the struggles of working people."
"The latest we have heard is that he wants to charge the minimum wage, that he wants to eliminate the Ministry of Equality, that he wants to eliminate the right to abortion, the right to euthanasia. Well, he is not going to achieve it," Bustinduy emphasized.
In addition, he has predicted that the electoral campaign will be "very long for the PP" and has forecast that, in the final stretch, the party will end up "hiding" Feijóo, as, in his opinion, already happened in 2023. "Mr. Feijóo is going to apply Mr. Abascal's program," he concluded.
"Be careful with messing with women"
On the other hand, the Minister of Health and leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, has lashed out at Feijóo for having stated, among other "delicacies," that he is a feminist because he was raised by women. A phrase that, as she has highlighted, reminds her of those who claim they are not "homophobic for having a gay friend."
"Women are the ones who have mostly taken care of raising, caring for, and supporting families and, however, it is Mr. Feijóo himself who denies us all the measures that feminism has brought."
For this reason, she has warned the leader of the PP that he should be careful and that he is not interested in "messing with women" nor "staining feminism" by questioning the advances achieved by the feminist movement.
In the same vein, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has spoken out through the social network Bluesky. "Feijóo says he is a feminist because he was raised by women. Well, he better get ready: women have also been raised together. We know what is at stake. And we are going to win," she has stated.