An unfortunate comment that will bring tail. The mayor of the Cuenca municipality of Villar de Cañas, José María Saiz, would have uttered some seriously offensive and sexist words against the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, on an internet television platform called 'Estado de Alarma TV', known as "the platform by Javier Negre and Marcos de Quinto". "Irene Montero has sores in her mouth from sucking her pigtails," the mayor told this medium.
So much so that the former leader of Podemos himself, Pablo Iglesias, has denounced these offensive words on Twitter, recalling that the mayor in question is a member of the Popular Party and that the media would be, as he points out, one of the most benefited by the subsidies that granted by the Community of Madrid.
In the video in question, the far-right journalist Javier Negre can be seen interviewing Saiz and, in the course of the conversation, noticing his tanned hands from his work in a forge and on a farm he owns. "This is a working mayor. Does Irene Montero have her hands like that?" questions the journalist, to which the mayor responds with the demeaning comment.
After the public denunciation of Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has taken action on the matter. Through the same social network, Feijóo reprimands the mayor, pointing out that "not everything is valid in politics" and that "I will not accept any attack on the dignity of a woman under the acronym of the PP."
For her part, Irene Montero, thanked this Thursday on Twitter for the PP leader's reaction to the mayor, although she pointed out that "it is already common" for there to be charges from the PP "creating hatred and the most disgusting political violence."
Shortly after Feijóo's message, the Cuenca PP leadership took action on the matter and reported in a statement late this Thursday that the party will open an information file "immediately" against the mayor of the PP in Villar de Cañas ( Cuenca), José María Saiz, for his controversial statements about the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero. In turn, the Provincial Electoral Committee will assess Saiz's candidacy for Mayor of Villar de Cañas ahead of the upcoming elections in May, according to the statement. In this way, the resolution of said issue is placed in the hands of the corresponding and independent body within the Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha, as well as those derived from it that can be concluded.
Previously, the president of the regional PP, Paco Núñez, expressed his "maximum rejection" of the mayor's words and warned that "this attitude has no place in the Manchego PP, nor does it represent our way of being or doing politics."
In another message, the Minister of Equality and spokesperson for the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Blanca Fernández, has called for the resignation of the popular mayor. "If he continues to be his candidate in May, it is because he represents them. At least he must apologize and rectify; no woman deserves such degrading treatment," concludes the counselor.
Shortly after, José María Saiz apologized through the Facebook profile of the town hall that he directs: "I want to apologize to the people who may have felt offended, and especially to Irene Montero," he points out, admitting that "there should have been criticized his, in my opinion, disastrous political management without undermining his personal dignity.
The video is taken from a 20-minute interview with the mayor of the Cuenca municipality on the occasion of the future of the nuclear waste storage facility (ATC) that was planned to be built in Villar de Cañas in 2011. The fact that the Government stopped the project in 2018 and that last November the current Executive announced definitively that it would not be carried out motivated the interest of the platform, which in recent weeks has also been the cause of political controversy between PSOE and PP in the region.
The Villar de Cañas ATC will not be built, but the Government plans to build seven individual radioactive waste stores (ATI), one at each nuclear power plant. However, the PP has announced that it will resume the Villar de Cañas project if Alberto Núñez Feijóo becomes president of the Government.
The interview goes on about this matter until it drifts through collateral paths, such as the labor market, the opportunities for the young people of Castilla y León, and that is when the journalist notices the place where the interview is being carried out, the Saiz forge, and in the hands of the mayor.
"All parents tell their children to bend their elbows to study: that one knelt down and look at it," said Sainz in a new outburst against the minister that has generated outrage in Podemos. "I don't know if we have to censor that," the journalist warns him, but the mayor of Villar de Cañas plays it down: "Tell him, so he can wake up."
The medium in which the interview was published on February 3 has been the subject of political controversy in Castilla-La Mancha. Several local media have reported the indignation of the Socialist Party of Cuenca, which considered it "shameful" that the PP of Cuenca resorted to a journalist convicted by the Justice up to three times for refusing to rectify hoaxes to discredit the Manchego president Emiliano García-Page. According to these media, the Socialists denounce that Negre met with PP officials when they landed in Cuenca, where he reportedly carried out various critical reports on various Socialist officials.
