The PSOE candidate for the Community of Madrid, Óscar López, has attacked the Partido Popular for its "culture of effort" and has said that "they have spent 30 years looking for the center," but that "they have ended up in the far right."
The former Digital Transformation minister has spoken this Saturday at an electoral rally for the socialists in Coslada, where he referred to statements by the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in which he claimed that he did not need to know English.
López has emphasized that this "culture of effort" is the same one championed by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. He has defended that Ayuso uses "everyone’s effort" so that she "gets the life of a lifetime."
"The effort that Ayuso is defending is that everyone pays her a luxury penthouse worth almost 7 million euros with 200 square meters of terrace," he criticized. The socialist candidate in Madrid has reiterated this idea and has censured Ayuso for "vacations in Mexico (...), that her brother sells masks to the Community," or that her former partner, Alberto González Amador, "does business with the private health group that she gives thousands of millions of euros to."
At the same time, López has demanded that these "opportunities" be passed on "to the people." "And what if public education, precisely public university, are there for that, for people to have a first opportunity?" he asked. In this regard, he has highlighted the "effort" of "kids" from working-class neighborhoods, who, in his view, should be able to "progress" thanks to public scholarships.
In relation to the Partido Popular’s policies, he has stressed that he rejects a government "where there are fascists in the morning and fascists in the afternoon." "Because they say, enough already with so much feminism; because they say that climate change does not exist; because they pursue free journalists who do the reporting," he added.
López has stressed the importance of protecting feminism and has recalled that women have remained "for centuries outside society." "Now that women are fighting and have moved forward and have achieved rights like the ones they have achieved, women are not going to allow us to roll back on rights because it is half the population," he said.
CHOOSING BETWEEN A "PROGRESSIVE OR RIGHT-WING" GOVERNMENT
During the event, he has emphasized that "the difference between having a progressive government or having a right-wing government" is reflected in issues such as that "a young person has a minimum wage of 735 or of 1,300", whether they have or do not have "a stable contract", or "can have help with rent".
Likewise, he has defended that "it is a point of pride" to push forward advances such as "human rights, housing and equality", for which Pedro Sánchez is "a global benchmark". For this reason, he has called on those who share these principles to vote on November 29 with the ballot paper "of the PSOE", while he has warned that those of the PP and Vox are intended for "all those who think that feminism is already fine", for those who "think that it is not gender-based violence", but "intrafamilial".