A good part of the socialist ministers of Pedro Sánchez have rejected that the president of the Government has had macho actions, as the second vice president of the Executive, Yolanda Díaz, said yesterday in an interview on the Lo de Évole program on La Sexta.
The first to speak out was the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, who assured that she has not seen macho actions in Pedro Sánchez and urged Díaz to give examples of the macho behavior that he has perceived in the President of the Government. "Personally, of course, quite the opposite. I have not seen any macho behavior in the Prime Minister (...) If she has seen it, explain when," said the Defense Minister.
The first vice president and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, expressed her surprise at the words of the also Minister of Labor and replied that the current Government and its president are feminists, due to the number of women ministers and the laws approved that allow progress in equality. "I'm surprised," Calviño answered with a laugh when asked if she shares what was stated by the second vice president and Minister of Labor in an interview on TVE.
For her part, the PSOE candidate for Mayor of Madrid and former Minister of Industry, Reyes Maroto, assured this Monday that "in no way" the President of the Government has macho attitudes. Maroto, who was part of the Sánchez governments since he arrived at La Moncloa in June 2018 until a few weeks ago, stressed that "the configuration of the Pedro Sánchez government shows that he is a feminist ruler" because he has "relied on more women than men” in his cabinet. In addition, he pointed out that "every policy that he promotes" as president "has the face of a woman" and cited the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), the pension reform or the equalization of maternity and paternity leave.
The words of the leader of Sumar have not sat well with Ferraz. In the PSOE they see Díaz's criticism of Sánchez as “very ugly” in which he pointed out that he had suffered macho attitudes from the president and, even more so, that comparison with former vice president Pablo Iglesias. He has also surprised them that the vice president has crossed that line of attacking Sánchez when he is part of his Executive, a government that, they remember, has had a greater presence of women than men and in which all the vice presidents are women.
