Yolanda Díaz's lapse: "This corrupt government is here to stay."
The second vice president of the Spanish government is involved in a response to the PP in the Senate.
BarcelonaThe Spanish government's oversight sessions in the Senate serve as an opportunity for the People's Party (PP) to continue its particular siege, highlighting the alleged corruption of the Spanish executive from a chamber where the Popular Party (PP) holds an absolute majority. But what is unusual is for Pedro Sánchez's administration to warn that years of corruption from the left-wing coalition lie ahead. "There will be a government of corruption for a while. Of corruption for a while. Continue like this and you will never govern," asserted Yolanda Díaz, Spain's second vice president and Minister of Labor, in the upper house of parliament this Tuesday. The minister's lapse left the chamber speechless and provoked massive applause from the entire PP bench, in an ironic outburst amid stupefied laughter and the sudden assimilation of what the Galician leader had just said.
An unfortunate intervention that has provided ammunition for the PP ranks, who have vented their anger against Díaz's "ridicule." The same social media profile of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party has mocked him mercilessly: "Finally, they're telling the truth about something," he tweeted.
Díaz's defense of the coalition government has not gone well due to a slurred speech after a harsh allegation against the PP. "They voted against the anti-corruption agency," Díaz began her speech, in which she defended "a comprehensive reform of dismissal to avoid what the PP practices: retaliation for corruption allegations." The problem arose when, just after criticizing a PP leader for supposedly saying that "public money doesn't matter because it doesn't belong to anyone," she said that "there will be a government of corruption for a while." "One of the most appalling travesties of this term," the Madrid PP said, albeit with a lack of grammatical gender agreement in her brief X-word.
Later, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska clarified that this is how the right refers to it and that, beyond the literal meaning, it should be interpreted that Díaz had said "corruption" and not "coalition" expressly. Later, Díaz herself admitted the slip of the tongue. on her Instagram account and attributed it to the shouting of the PP senators: "They are rude."
