The spokesperson of the Popular Party in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has lashed out against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for what she considers "threats" after he assured that the Executive will resort "with all the force of the State" to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the Extremadurans after the agreement reached with Vox. At the same time, she has stressed that in the regional governments of the PP "there will never be an illegality" nor "the Constitution will be attacked".
In a press conference during the I Spain-Brazil Summit held this Friday in Barcelona, Muñoz has branded Sánchez's words as "terrible" and has maintained that the left "is agitated because the PP is going to govern many autonomous communities". As she has denounced, the head of the Executive, without having read the pact in Extremadura, proclaimed that he would use "the force of the State" against those agreements, something that the popular leader wonders if it is another bravado or a "threat".
"When he speaks of the full force of the State, what exactly, Pedro Sánchez, is he referring to? To the Armed Forces? To the State Security Corps and Forces?", the PP spokesperson in Congress asked during a party forum alongside the mayor of Leganés, Miguel Ángel Recuenco. These statements were in response to Sánchez's warning that the government will challenge any attempt to transfer the pact with Vox, which in his opinion implies "a cut in rights", especially in migratory matters, to regional laws.
The popular leader recalled that, in stages when the left was not in power, "it already surrounded parliaments," something that, she stressed, the right has "never" done. "The left has chartered buses to surround parliaments when they were not in power. So, what is Pedro Sánchez referring to?" Muñoz reiterated, once again questioning the scope of the president's words.
Muñoz has accused the Spanish left of exhibiting "few democratic values" and of acting as if "they believe only they can govern" and the PP is not legitimized to reach agreements. At this point, he has reproached the PSOE for its pacts with Bildu, "the heirs of ETA", and with the independentists "who have staged a coup d'état", recalling that with them "they have modified the Penal Code by lowering embezzlement offenses so that their partners support them".
"They have the nerve to criticize our agreements. Let them be very calm. Where the PP governs, there will never be illegality and the Constitution will never be attacked," Muñoz emphasized. Furthermore, he predicted that the 'popular' will reach the Government of Spain within a year, while, according to his diagnosis, the left "has chosen the path of agony." "This has only just begun," he predicted.
"SANCHEZ MEETS WITH PEOPLE WHO DEFEND DICTATORSHIPS"
The parliamentary spokesperson for the PP also alluded to the summits of progressive leaders being held this weekend in Barcelona, with the presence, among others, of the Brazilian president Lula da Silva or the Mexican Claudia Sheinbaum. In her opinion, the President of the Government is sitting with leaders "who are degrading democracy in the countries where they govern" while proclaiming that they "defend democracy".
On this line, he has lashed out against the summit promoted by Sánchez with countries that, according to Muñoz, support "dictatorships" such as that of Venezuela under the command of Nicolás Maduro, whose "communist policies" would have led the country to "a real disaster".
Muñoz has claimed the support of Spanish society for the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, highlighting that she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight "in a terrible dictatorship that has cost the lives of many Venezuelans and the exile of thousands of people".
"SÁNCHEZ HAS TO FALL"
The popular leader has reiterated that the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who lost the last elections, "was the Sánchez of the North", and has warned that the head of the Spanish Executive "is the last populist" in Europe "who has to fall", also underlining that he has not managed to pass the General State Budgets.
Muñoz has also denounced the Government's attacks on the press and the judiciary, following criticism by minister Félix Bolaños of judge Juan Carlos Peinado for the prosecution of Begoña Gómez. "It is a daily, personal and professional lynching. They want to instill fear in judges," he has warned.
"We have many examples in history, of leaders who have tried to save the people from the people themselves. We already know where this path leads that the Government of Spain is treading," concluded the spokesperson for the PP.