The ERC and Podemos candidates for the elections, Gabriel Rufián and Irene Montero, have called this Saturday to "subdue the PSOE from its left" in the next general elections to achieve a Government that guarantees decent living conditions for citizens.
"Whatever your name is, we are the front!" Rufián claimed in a speech at a rally with Montero in the Nou Barris neighborhood of Barcelona, in reference to the Frente Amplio candidacy, which includes Comuns, Más Madrid, Sumar and Izquierda Unida.
At the event, under the slogan 'House, life, future', Irene Montero stated that the political project of the right is to "take everyone's money" to give it to "the rich", while Podemos wants to "return it to its legitimate owner, which is the people".
"And what is the political project of the PSOE? Tweet very loudly against those at the top, and that's it," he said. "That's why Gabriel and I ran for office, because it is as important to stop the right as it is to lower the price of rent." However, Montero has warned that "having a left that looks very similar to the PSOE" in the Government and is presented "on the same ballot as him" in the Senate "is not going to fix things."
The ERC spokesperson, for his part, reaffirmed his intention "not to subjugate the PSOE by joining the PSOE but rather by simplifying the offer of parties", a double stab at the Frente Amplio and the Comunes, the main victims of the alliance of ERC and Podemos. And he has mocked that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was "very handsome with Broncano" in his interview the other day, but that he could have done more in terms of housing.
Rufián has continued to defend his commitment, shared by Podemos and in possible contrast to Sumar, in "not being subject to the PSOE." Later, he presented the PSOE as "our creature", a product of the pressure exerted on it by parties such as ERC, Podemos, EH Bildu, Compromís and the BNG, and he did not mention Sumar among them.
Minutes later, and at the Catalan level, faced with the situation of voting for ERC or the PSC, which he has raised ignoring the Commons, the Republican spokesperson said that the PSC "does not deserve the prize of the so-called useful vote", because ERC have been "the most anti-fascist, the most useful", and has asked for more electoral strength to continue being so.
But, as usual, Rufián's sharpest phrases have been directed at Junts per Cataluya and his criticism of ERC for agreeing with Podemos. As he said, the "us doing our thing" that Junts practices is "the most magical and absurd phrase", and he asked them "what kind of magic you sell" by suggesting that Catalonia will be able to get rid of "fascist rage" if it controls Spain.
The Podemos candidate for the general elections, Irene Montero, has accused the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of questioning women's rights for his words this Friday assuring that he will eliminate the Ministry of Equality and integrate its powers into another ministry if he governs after 29N: "Your machismo kills," said Montero.
"Feijóo wants a country of women without rights, a country of enslaved women, more than half of the population enslaved and that is why voting for the Popular Party is voting for machismo and is voting for violence," he assured.
"Their permanent questioning, their trivialization, their ridicule of the feminist struggle means that today there are many women in Catalonia and Spain who are afraid to leave their homes when their husband hits them again, who do not know how to protect their children, who believe that they were born to work hard all their lives, to give up their dreams, their life, and earn miserable salaries so that others can live their lives," she said.
