The spokesperson of the PSOE, Montse Mínguez, has held the Popular Party responsible this Saturday for the climate of insults surrounding the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and has defended the replies of Óscar Puente, which she has described as "forceful".
Mínguez expressed this in an interview on RNE, reported by Europa Press, when asked if insults have become a common occurrence in politics, after Pedro Sánchez was heckled and booed upon his arrival at the October 12 parade yesterday.
As she indicated, the national spokesperson of the PP, Borja Sémper, has made it clear that "the insults will end when Feijóo governs." From there, she contrasted the behavior in Congress, where in the socialist ranks "applause is given," while with the PP bench "it is impossible to follow a control session because there is no word that they do not interrupt."
In this line, she emphasized that it was the PP who called Pedro Sánchez "son of a bitch" and that from that party he is labeled "with absolute normality as a tyrant, mentally ill" or "bastard, gaseous" or it is even said that they are going to put him in the trunk."
"It is not the people on the street saying it, it is the leaders, the spokespersons of the Popular Party who are saying it," she emphasized, demanding that the use of insults in public debate not be assumed as something normal.
For Mínguez, the current situation can be summarized as "some insult and others are insulted," and she rejects that socialists have to "turn the other cheek." Therefore, she has supported the "forceful" responses of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who claims to receive numerous attacks per minute on Twitter, referring to the X network.
In this regard, she admitted that sometimes "Óscar Puente will have a forceful speech that is sometimes confused with an insult," against "attacks that are miserable." However, she stressed that the minister does not resort to expressions like "bastards, or sons of bitches, nor (talks) about putting them in trunks, nor about taking them to the gallows."
In her assessment, "society is like this because there are some leaders of the Popular Party who provoke it," and she cited as an example that in the "headquarters (of the PSOE) in Cantabria they entered with explosives," in addition to recalling the insults directed at the deputy from Ceuta when she was confused with a member of an NGO in the autonomous city.
Likewise, she has censured that the "fascists go with flags" to the camp at Puerta del Sol, where they are "demonstrating for a right as worthy as the right to housing." From there, she has concluded that for her it is evident that those who are "torpedoing society" are the PP.