This Friday, the PP denounced the verbal "violence" of the Compromís-Sumar deputy Alberto Ibáñez, who shouted, in the Congress courtyard, at the PP spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz. "You're going to pay for it!" "You are going to have to show your face!" he told her, according to Muñoz herself, who replied that "yes" she is going to show her face.
The Compromís-Sumar deputy denies the PP version, but Sumar sources acknowledge that he has told him that "they will pay for it at the polls." That is the only phrase in which both versions agree. Ibáñez explained to this newspaper that upon seeing Muñoz cross smiling on such a difficult day for families, he reprimanded him for that attitude with this phrase: "Are you going to be able to sleep peacefully?" To which the PP spokesperson, according to this version, responded "yes."
Muñoz has tweeted a photo in which Ibáñez can be seen rebuking her. "The PP is not going to take a step back in the defense of Spaniards and the most vulnerable. Many Spaniards with children, over 65, and with low incomes fear that these decrees will prevent them from renting a home," wrote the PP spokesperson.
"We are not going to abandon them. No deputy will intimidate me with their screams, their tension and their violence," Muñoz added. Ibáñez responded to the photo published by the PP: "Violence is voting to evict a 90-year-old woman," he wrote.
Sources from Sumar have assured that "the spokesperson for the Popular Group was forming a group in the patio, showing a smile and satisfaction at the vote against protecting hundreds of Spaniards from being evicted." "Given this attitude," the sources continued, "spokesman Alberto Ibáñez, who was speaking with a journalist, stated: Will they be able to sleep peacefully? "Let them vote with their heads held high!"
Next, according to Sumar's version, Muñoz answered "that they were very calm and that what was being done was that thousands of rentals were leaving the market", to which Ibáñez responded that they were going to "evict and leave many people on the street" and that "they will pay for it at the polls."
This pressure occurred a few minutes before the Congress Plenary began in which, if all groups keep their word, the two decrees that the Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday to alleviate the rental crisis will be repealed. The first, called the "Maricarmen decree", after the elderly woman who was terminally ill in Madrid who triggered the social protests that accelerated the decree, had a better chance of being validated, but Junts decided last night to vote against it. PP, Junts and Vox add up to the absolute majority and, therefore, the measures will decline.
In this context, both the PSOE and Sumar are putting pressure on the PP. The President of the Government himself, Pedro Sánchez, has tweeted that "the moment of truth has arrived." "PP, Vox and Junts must choose: either they are with the social majority or with the speculators," he added, before challenging: "Their vote will portray them before entire generations." But the PP redoubles its commitment to the "no" and calls for elections if the decrees are repealed.
