Alegría does not share with Yolanda Díaz that Sánchez behaves macho and that Morocco is a dictatorship

He reminds the minister, who believes that Marlaska should have resigned for Melilla, that decisions are "collegiate": "There are no personalisms here"

MADRID, 17 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Education and Spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, has disagreed today with the Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, who affirmed yesterday that the President of the Government has macho behavior and also said that Morocco is a dictatorship.

"It is not the position of this party or of this Government", he argued before this last statement and recalled that both the "hits" and "everything that happens" are "collegiate" decisions of the Government, after defending the minister that Marlaska should have resigned due to the Melilla tragedy.

This is how the socialist spokesperson responded, during a press conference at the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz, to the six questions that journalists have asked her about the statements made last night by the Minister of Labor in the Jordi Évole program.

When asked if she agreed with the statement that Pedro Sánchez has macho behavior, Pilar Alegría has responded emphatically: "clearly and absolutely not." In this sense, she added that many things can be said about the President of the Government, such as that he is a tenacious, resilient person and a hard worker. But she has added that the only term that she would never use to define him is the one used by Yolanda Díaz.

In addition, she has argued that if something shows that this is not the case, it is that the government that Pedro Sánchez has formed is the "most feminist" in the European Union.

She has also exposed, about whether she believes that in general in Spanish politics political leaders have macho attitudes, that she has spent years holding positions of responsibility in the party and in the Government and it is thanks to the support and trust of her colleagues. "One alone can hardly occupy positions of responsibility," she has argued.

Pilar Alegría did not want to answer what she attributes these harsh criticisms of the second vice president to or if she believes that it is an electoral strategy. She has limited herself to pointing out that they are statements "in a personal capacity" and to remind Yolanda Díaz that the measures adopted by the Government are "collective".

The same reflection that she made when asked for her opinion on Yolanda Díaz's statement that the Interior Minister should have resigned due to the tragedy in Melilla, in which at least 23 immigrants died trying to jump over the fence.

In this regard, Pilar Alegría has once again pointed out that both the "successes" of the Government and "everything that happens" is collegiate. "Here there are no personalisms, we are a team and a Government", she has added while she reminded the vice president that the only person who has the possibility of appointing or removing is the president of the Government.

And he has also once again marked differences with Yolanda Díaz's opinion that Morocco is a dictatorship. The Socialist spokesperson has reiterated that this is another personal opinion of the Labor Minister, but "it is not the position of this party or of this Government." In fact, she has pointed out that the relations have become clear in the road map of the Spanish-Moroccan declaration and with the recent celebration of the High Level Meeting.

And although he has acknowledged that he did not see the full interview, he wanted to make it clear that the PSOE "is on other things", that is, working on proposals for a solid program for the May 28 elections. "We are in this pre-campaign work electoral and dedicating ourselves to eating things, those that really matter", he pointed out, mentioning the Housing Law, the mobilization of SAREB flats, the pension reform or the rise in the SMI.

"We are in useful politics, the one that really matters to the citizens of this country," he exclaimed before insisting that other types of debates remain on another level than the one the PSOE is on now.