Congress candidate for Madrid and current Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, took part this Saturday in a campaign rally in Oviedo, where she stressed that "Asturias is also your land and your home" and reiterated her support for investment in defence and for boosting the sector in the region.
During her address, she defended that "investing in defence is investing in peace" and, at the same time, in the creation of jobs. In this regard, she guaranteed that the Government will continue to strengthen the defence industry in Asturias, the Trubia arms factory and the Tallerón project with Indra, in addition to referring to the La Vega project and the progress achieved by the Executive in this area.
"You know what we have invested in defence. And you know that only a socialist government will continue investing in defence the way we are doing. Only a socialist government," the minister emphasized to those attending.
Apologies for the Government’s mistakes
Robles addressed, expressly, those who "have doubts, who don’t know what it will do on the 29th, who think that all politicians are the same." She acknowledged that "naturally, from the government, we have made mistakes; we have had failures. It doesn’t cost me anything to apologize. I have apologized for things that maybe would have been done differently."
She recalled that "I have cried with the families of the victims of Adamuz or of Urda, because sometimes we make mistakes. But we have principles, we have honesty, we know how to cry with the person who is crying. And for me, it costs nothing to ask for forgiveness, to apologize if it is necessary."
The minister insisted that, in her view, a fairer society will only be possible if, at the ballot box, support is given to a project of progress and equality, which she identified exclusively with the Partido Socialista.
"We have a lot at stake. In these eight years that I have been in the Government, I have to tell you that the atmosphere in the Congress of the opposition and in Madrid has been unbearable. There has been nothing constructive; they have been insults, contempt, condemnations, but doing nothing, nothing at all. Not even defending Spain," Robles lamented.
Tribute to the latest victims in Asturias
At the end of her speech, the head of Defense has dedicated a few words of affection and recognition to the families and colleagues of the police officer who died and of the other officer who was injured last Tuesday in Oviedo. Likewise, she has had a special remembrance for the 30-year-old woman allegedly murdered by her ex-partner in Gijón.