The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, has reiterated that the Interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, must "clarify" the "responsibilities" arising from the police charges against protesters recorded during this Wednesday’s general strike.
"I have confidence in my colleague because he is a person who has shown his commitment to the rule of law, to the defense of the rights of everyone," she said in an interview with 'La Séptima', collected by Europa Press.
In this context, she stressed that it is essential to offer "all the explanations," while she acknowledged that it displeased her to watch images of the police action. She also backed that "an investigation is now opened," as announced by Marlaska himself, although she equally emphasized that she did not like "seeing how they attacked commercial premises."
"The PP has played at damaging Begoña Gómez"
After Begoña Gómez’s intervention, the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Socialist rally at the start of the campaign this Thursday, the minister went after the PP for having "played at damaging," "put in jail" and "assaulted" the woman of the Socialist leader.
"Begoña Gómez today is representing all of us," she asserted, "all the women who are not willing to give up on this Partido Popular that has dedicated itself to insults." "Just as she is strong, Spanish women are strong," she added.
Along these lines, she said that Gómez embodies "that strength of women who are not willing for our decision about our motherhood to be conditioned again now," "who we should marry" or "how we should develop professionally or personally."
Regarding the criticisms by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the public presence of Sánchez’s wife, Rodríguez pointed out that she prefers "not to opine," but she hoped that the words of the Madrid leader of the PP would be repeated "on loop" because, in her view, they will bring "some additional votes" to the Socialists in the elections on next November 29.
Not to return to "censorship" or backsliding
Rodríguez stressed that elections "are won at the ballot box" and not in opinion polls, and she appealed to a "modern society," "where women do not want to take a single step back" and in which it is not desired to return "to censorship" in the cultural sphere.
He has also defended a youth removed from "fascist stances" and that, as he has highlighted, is "fighting for its right to housing".