The spokesperson for the PSOE, Montse Mínguez, has blamed the Popular Party for the insults uttered against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and has justified the responses of the Minister of Transport, Óscar López, by calling them “forceful”.
In an interview on RNE, Mínguez was asked if insults in politics have become normalized after Pedro Sánchez was insulted and booed yesterday upon his arrival at the October 12 parade. According to her, the national spokesperson for the PP, Borja Sémper, has made it clear that “insults will end when Feijóo governs”.
The socialist leader has also stated that, while in the PSOE benches in Congress there is applause, with the PP’s “it is impossible to follow a control session because there is no word they don’t interrupt”.
Accusations against the PP and defense of the socialist response
Mínguez recalled that, in her opinion, it was the PP who called Pedro Sánchez “son of a bitch” and has maintained that from that party he is called with “absolute normality” a “tyrant”, “mentally ill”, “bastard, gassable” or it is said that they are going to “put him in the trunk”. “It’s not people on the street saying it, it’s the leaders, the spokespersons of the Popular Party who are saying it,” she exclaimed, while asking that insults not be normalized.
In her opinion, what is happening is that there are some who insult and others who are insulted, and she has rejected that socialists have to “turn the other cheek”. In that context, she has defended the “forceful” responses given by Óscar Puente, to whom she has attributed the justification that he receives many insults per minute on Twitter, referring to the X network.
In this regard, she pointed out that sometimes “Óscar Puente will have a forceful discourse that is sometimes confused with an insult”, in the face of “miserable attacks”, although she added that the minister does not call them “bastards”, nor “sons of bitches”, nor does he talk about “putting them in trunks”, nor about “taking them to the gallows”.
Criticism of specific episodes and the political situation
The socialist spokesperson has assured that “society is like this because there are Popular Party leaders who provoke it” and gave as an example that in the PSOE headquarters in Cantabria “they entered with explosives”. She also recalled the insults received by the deputy for Ceuta, when she was mistaken for a member of an NGO in the autonomous city.
Furthermore, she criticized that “fascists go with flags” to the encampment in Puerta del Sol, which, she said, is demonstrating for “a right as dignified as the right to housing”. In that context, she reiterated that it is the PP that is “torpedoing society”.