The spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has attacked the Government for its "hypocrisy and cynicism" regarding the death of Maricarmen, describing it as "despicable" that the Executive has tried to "gain political advantage from the death of an elderly woman." Furthermore, she has directly pointed to the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, whom she accuses of being the one, and not the PP, who embodies "evil" for not assuming his responsibility in episodes like the derailment of Adamuz and for not having reacted to the 270,000 evictions recorded during the eight years of PSOE government.
"Is it evil for a Minister of Transport whose negligence at the head of the Ministry has caused the largest traffic accident in railway history of democracy, to go to a meeting with the victims and say, hey, it's just that I don't put the rails. Is that evil?", the 'popular' deputy pointed out in an interview with 'Telecinco', reported by Europa Press.
In the same vein, Muñoz has warned that, "And if you want us to take the campaign to the terms of evil or goodness? Be very careful, because you have a lot of history behind you," thus responding to Puente after the minister accused the PP of refusing to join this Thursday in the minute of silence for Maricarmen both in the Assembly and in the City Council of Madrid.
The 'popular' leader has ironically questioned the "evil" that, in her opinion, is attributed to "the left for each of the 270,000 evictions" that she places in Pedro Sánchez's mandate, for which "no minutes of silence have been observed." She emphasized that, in addition to these symbolic gestures not being called, neither have "demonstrations been promoted or called, nor real decrees been made" in response to the judicial evictions that occurred during Sánchez's legislature.
PP's Criticism of the Political Use of Maricarmen's Case
In this context, Muñoz maintains that the PSOE is, in her opinion, "squeezing the death of an elderly woman to the maximum," while reproaching the Executive for not having promoted minutes of silence for each of the "almost 100 evictions per day" recorded under their governments. In her view, this strategy responds to the fact that the Government "because they cannot offer a proposal for the future" for Spain.
"They want to take political advantage of what has happened to Maricarmen because they cannot offer a proposal for the future for this country. And they cannot offer it because they have been governing for eight years and the Spaniards today, objectively, live worse than three years ago," has sentenced the spokesperson of the PP in Congress.