One of the most bitter moments came during the debate on Equality, where Feijóo focused his criticism on the law of yes is yes
The face to face between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo reached its bitterest moments in the debate on Equality, where the clash reached the personal. “I am outraged,” Sánchez uttered during the dialogue, which was harsh and with continuous interruptions. “You should shut up a bit”, “this is not ‘El Hormiguero'”, At one point, the PP leader responded to the Prime Minister, who accused him of “giving in to machismo” for his pacts with Vox.
The law of yes is yes articulated a large part of the block of social policies and Equality, after the journalist Ana Pastor asking the popular candidate what he would say to women concerned about their agreements with Vox, the same day that a murder of this type has taken place. The PP candidate’s response came with an attack on the PSOE, which he accused of “voting with Vox in Murcia so that the party that won the elections does not govern”, before stating that “The main problem we have is the Sanchista law of yes is yes”.
“That I am from the PP!”
At first, Sánchez tried unsuccessfully to get rid of this matter. “He has not answered”, “they are asking him a question”; he criticized the PSOE candidate while Feijóo brought up some cases of beneficiaries of the law. “The nonsense that you have done against the dignity of women”, while an annoyed Sánchez interrupted him. “You will go down in history as the President of the Government who signed the ‘only yes is yes’ law in the BOE” , was the lapidary phrase of the popular leader.
“PP and Vox are the same“, Sánchez replied during the intervention of Feijóo, who at one point in the debate ironized: “Do you want to discuss with Santiago Abascal? Discuss with him. I am from the PP!” The Prime Minister had to refer briefly to the star measure of the Ministry of Equality, but not before launching a new reproach: “First of all, show solidarity -as Mr. Feijóo has not done- for the murdered woman.
“A legal mistake”
Pedro Sánchez went on to defend the yes is yes law, assuring that the norm “gives an answer” to the “problem” of sexual violence, reducing the effects of the norm to “a legal error that is corrected because it is an error, but a knowingly machismo… that is not a mistake,” continued the president, who brought up the PP’s pacts again: “You are agreeing with a macho party that does not condemn male violence, and that has consequences,” he began. Sanchez. “Giving in to machismo is what you are doing with those shameful government agreements“. Feijóo continued to appeal to the law of yes is yes, to which the PSOE leader responded. “I am outraged”, “what little empathy”. “Mr. Sánchez, do not give lessons on this. you should shut up a bit“, replied the leader of the PP.
Regarding social policies, Feijóo defended that “it has been a failure, because there are more Spaniards on the poverty line and with severe material deprivation.” Sánchez puffed up regulations such as the euthanasia law, to which the PP candidate promised to draft a “death with dignity law” and approve the ELA law. In Educational matters, the leader of the PP took the reins again, criticizing Sánchez for breaking his promise of free early childhood education, boasting of having implemented it in Galicia, and promising to do it in Spain if he arrived at La Moncloa, co-financed by 50% between Government and CCAA.