The federal leadership of the Socialist Party has demanded this Monday the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to disavow the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for statements that, in the opinion of the socialists, poison coexistence, and force her to rectify.
This is how Ferraz has reacted to Ayuso's statements on Tele5, where she has been interviewed and where she has assured that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, wants to shield himself and his own and "have the opposition in jail, as in Nicaragua" . "That is what they are trying to do: we must destroy the opposition because in dictatorships there can be no opposition. We must also kill the opposition because I have to perpetuate myself, I don't know with what project because Sánchez has not done anything good for Spain", he added in an interview granted to the Ana Rosa Quintana programme.
These demonstrations, the PSOE maintains in a statement, "lack all respect" and are "completely opposed" to the climate of relations that must be maintained between political formations, in an advanced democracy such as Spain's. For Ferraz, at a time when Spanish society "needs more than unity", "a treeless" Alberto Núñez Feijóo imports "the worst practices of Trumpism and Bolsonaroism that the right wants to install in Spain to divide society".
For this reason, the Socialists call on him to clarify whether Ayuso's statements are in tune with the ideological positions of the Popular Party he leads and whether they have been authorized by him. "Feijóo must explain whether these disqualifications are signed or are part of the Madrid leader's roadmap in her attempt to camouflage, before public opinion and the media, the complicated situation in which Madrid's public health finds itself due to its irresponsible management", adds the PSOE.
"Any of these situations is intolerable, and Feijóo has to show if he is the leader of the Populares or a puppet of other powers, including Ayuso herself," insists the socialist leadership, which considers that "when the same thing is done and said that Pablo Casado ends up as Casado: devoured by Ayuso".
"The Spaniards do not deserve the radicalism and the confrontation that a PP dragged by Ayuso wants to take us to," concludes Ferraz's statement, who sees this drift "aided by Feijóo's weakness."
